NORTHEASTERN
STUDENT CODE OF CONDUCT
I. Standards for Classroom Behavior
Generally, all students enrolled
in
1. Attendance and Tardiness: failure to comply with a professor’s/instructor’s attendance policies as stated in the course syllabus.
2. Disruptive Behavior: any behavior that interferes with another student’s ability to participate in class or creates an environment that is not conducive to learning.
3. Food, Drink and Tobacco use: consuming food or beverages or using tobacco in any laboratory or in a manner that is not conducive to an effective learning environment.
4. Electronic Devices: any electronic device that has not been approved by the professor/instructor that is on (power is on) in the classroom during a scheduled class time.
5. Materials Not Related to Class: newspapers, books, magazines, study guides, etc. not related to the class being attended.
6. Class Preparation: students demonstrating a lack of responsibility by not completing required assignments.
7. Hygiene and Attire: attending class without appropriate attire and hygiene such that it affects the learning environment for the professor/instructor or other students.
8. Deadlines and Due Dates: requesting permission for submitting assignments beyond the announced due date without just cause.
9. Exams: failure to follow any policy outlined in the syllabus with regard to taking and rescheduling of exams.
10. Meeting
with Professors/Instructors:
disrespectful or disruptive behavior towards a student’s
professor/instructor.
II. Standards for Academic Integrity
Academic fraud and dishonesty
includes, but is not limited to, the following categories: cheating,
plagiarism, copyright infringement, fabrication, multiple submissions,
obtaining unfair advantage, unauthorized access to academic or administrative
systems, aiding and abetting, impersonation, and threatening harm.
A. Traditional Classroom Standards
1.
Cheating: using
unauthorized notes, aids, or information on an examination; altering a graded
work prior to its return to a faculty member or allowing another person to do
one's own work and submitting it for grading.
2. Plagiarism:
submitting material that in part or
whole is not one's own work or submitting one's own work without properly
attributing the correct sources of its content.
3. Copyright
Infringement: using copyrighted
materials (print, electronic, or multimedia) in a manner that violates
copyright laws.
4.
Fabrication:
inventing or falsifying information, data, or citation; presenting data
gathered outside of acceptable professorial guidelines; failing to provide an
accurate account of how information, data or citations were gathered; altering
documents affecting academic records; forging signatures or authorizing false
information on an official academic document, grade, letter, form, ID card, or
any other university document; submitting false excuses for absence, delay or
illness.
5.
Multiple Submissions: submitting identical papers or course work for
credit in more than one course without prior permission of the instructor.
6.
Obtaining Unfair Advantage:
a) Gaining or providing access to examination materials prior to the time authorized by an instructor
b) Stealing, defacing, or destroying library or research materials which can deprive others of their use
c) Unauthorized collaboration on an academic assignment
d) Retaining, possessing, or circulating previously used examination materials without the instructor's permission
e) Obstructing or interfering with another student's academic work
f) Engaging in any activity designed to obtain an unfair advantage over another student in the same course
g) Offering bribery to staff or any university
employee to effect a grade change, or gain unfair advantage over other students.
7.
Unauthorized Access: viewing or altering in any way computer
records, modifying computer programs or systems, releasing or distributing
information gathered via unauthorized access, or in any way interfering with
the use or availability of computer systems/information.
8.
Aiding and Abetting: providing material, information, or other
assistance, which violates the Standards for Academic Integrity; providing false
information in connection with any inquiry regarding academic integrity.
9.
Impersonation: impersonating or allowing to be impersonated
by another individual during classes, examination or other university
activities.
10. Threatening
Harm: threatening, effecting, or
encouraging bodily, professional or financial harm to any faculty, staff,
administrator or student who has witnessed or reported a violation of the CBT
Code of Conduct.
B. Virtual Classroom Standards
In addition to the ten standards stated above, the following
standards apply to online, online/hybrid, and distance learning teaching
environments.
1. Professional
Online Etiquette: Maintenance of professional business-like demeanor in all
communications (e.g., telephone, e-mail, IM, etc.) between student and
professor, and among students themselves. Acceptable communication etiquette
should be held at a higher standard than common, informal communication styles
between friends and classmates.
2. Electronic
Document Exchange: the sharing of student computers to complete individual
assignments, exams, and the sharing of electronic files.
3. Online Exam Duplication: Changing the form of an exam from its original electronic version.
4. Plagiarism: submitting material that in part or whole is not one's own work; submitting one's own work without properly attributing the correct sources of its content.
5. Copyright Infringement: using copyrighted materials (print, electronic, or multimedia) in a manner that violates copyright laws.
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