Coastline has the responsibility to ensure that grades assigned are indicative of the knowledge and skill level of each student. Acts of academic dishonesty make it impossible to fulfill this responsibility and weaken our society. Administrators, faculty and classified staff at Coastline all support this policy. Faculty have the primary responsibility to ensure that academic honesty is maintained in their classes. Students share the responsibility for maintaining academic honesty by refraining from acts of academic dishonesty and by notifying instructors and/or appropriate administrators about observed incidents of academic dishonesty. The CCCD Student Code of Conduct and Disciplinary Procedures shall be applied to any violation of academic honesty. Examples of Violations of Academic Honesty Academic dishonesty includes, but is not limited to, the following: CHEATING Obtaining answers to specific examination questions from another student before or during an examination. Communicating answers to another student during an examination. Knowingly allowing another student to copy one's work. Taking or giving information during an examination by any means, including foreign languages, sign languages, hand signals, secret codes, or electronic transmission. Taking an examination for another student or having someone take an examination for oneself. Using unauthorized material during an examination, including calculators, dictionaries, or any electronic devices. Sharing answers for a take-home examination unless otherwise authorized by the instructor. Altering a graded examination or assignment and returning it for additional credit unless otherwise authorized by the instructor. Receiving help in creating a speech, essay, report, project or paper unless otherwise authorized by the instructor. Turning in a speech, essay, report, project or paper done for one class to another class unless specifically authorized by the instructor of the second class. Misreporting or altering the data in laboratory or research projects. PLAGIARIZING Offering all or a portion of another person's work as one's own: copying all or a portion of a speech, essay, report, project or paper from another person or from books or other sources. Using the content of thought in outside sources (books, periodicals, the Internet or other electronic sources, or other written or spoken sources) without giving proper credit (by naming the person and putting any exact words used in quotation marks). Allowing another person or company to do the researching and/or writing or creating of an assigned speech, essay, report, project or paper for oneself. Writing or creating a speech, essay, report, project or paper for another student. Doing research for another student's project or report. COMMITTING OTHER ACTS OF DISHONEST CONDUCT Stealing or attempting to steal an examination or answer key. Stealing or attempting to change official academic records. Forging or altering grade change cards. Submitting all or part of the same work for credit in more than one course without consulting all instructors involved. Intentionally impairing the performance of other students and/or a faculty member, for example, by adulterating laboratory samples or reagents, by altering musical or athletic equipment or by creating a distraction meant to impair performance. Forging or altering attendance records. ENGAGING IN COLLUSION Collusion occurs when any student knowingly or intentionally helps another student perform an act of academic dishonesty. Collusion in an act of academic dishonesty will be disciplined in the same manner as the act itself. PROCEDURES FOR DEALING WITH VIOLATIONS OF ACADEMIC DISHONESTY Action by the Instructor: An instructor who has evidence that an act of academic dishonesty has occurred shall, after speaking with the student, take one or more of the following disciplinary actions: Issue a reprimand. Give the student an "F" grade, zero points, or a reduced number of points on all or part of a particular paper, project, or examination.* Assign an "F" grade for the course. NOTE: A grade of "F" assigned to a student for academic dishonesty is final and shall be placed on the transcript. If the student withdraws from the course, a "W" will not replace an "F" assigned for academic dishonesty.* *For any incident of academic dishonesty that is sufficiently serious for the instructor to take disciplinary action that can lower the student's grade (for example, an "F" given for all or part of an assignment), the instructor shall report the incident to the Dean of Student Services on an "Academic Dishonesty Report" form. Action by the Administration: Upon receipt of the first "Academic Dishonesty Report" form concerning a student, or upon satisfactory investigation of allegations brought by other staff or students, the Dean of Student Services shall send a letter of reprimand to the student, which will inform the student that he/she will be on disciplinary probation for the remainder of his/her career at Coastline. Upon receipt of a second reported incident of cheating by the student, the Dean of Student Services shall suspend the student for one calendar year. If, after the student returns from a suspension for Academic Dishonesty, the Dean of Student Services receives yet another "Academic Dishonesty Report" form, he/she shall recommend to the College President and the CCCD Board of Trustess that the student be expelled from the District. For more serious incidents of academic dishonesty, the student shall be suspended from the College on the first offense and could be recommended for expulsion by the Board of Trustees. Offenses warranting suspension or expulsion on the first offense include, but are not limited to, the following: Taking an examination for another student or having someone take an examination for oneself. Altering a graded examination or assignment and returning it for additional credit. Having another person or a company do the research and/or writing of an assigned paper or report. Stealing or attempting to steal an examination or answer key. Stealing or attempting to change official academic records. Forging or altering grades. Portions of this policy are adapted from the academic honesty policies of the University of California Irvine, Cypress College, California State University Long Beach and Golden West College as published in their catalogs.

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