Dr. J's Notes on Academic Integrity

Student-teacher relationships are built on trust. For example, students must trust that teachers have made appropriate decisions about the structure, content, and evaluation procedures of courses they teach. Teachers must trust that the assignments which students turn in are their own. Acts which violate this trust undermine the educational process.

Students should familiarize themselves with University definitions of various forms of Academic Dishonesty and procedures for responding to them. The information below covers all forms of violations of the trust between students and teachers. Note that the penalties for plagiarism and other forms of cheating can be quite harsh.

Dr. J's policy on academic integrity is simple: Credit will not be received in any case of Academic Dishonesty and may result in failure of the course along with disciplinary action.

Academic Rigor at CSU, Chico

Statement (May 5, 1998) from the Provost's Task Force on Rigor
Chico State's stand on Academic Integrity is available online at http://www.csuchico.edu/sjd/integrity.

University Policies

University Policies and Academic Policies and Regulations as written in the University Catalog, California State University, Chico. Campus Policies are also available online at http://www.csuchico.edu/sjd/policies/.

Student Judicial Affairs (SJA), CSU, Chico

Address:	Student Affairs Office of Student Judicial Affairs California State University, Chico Kendall Hall 112 Chico, CA 95929-0125
Phone:	530 898-6897
E-mail:	sjd@csuchico.edu
Home Page:	http://www.csuchico.edu/sjd/

References: Sample Codes of Ethics for the Computing Profession

• Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) Code of Ethics and Professional Conduct; also see more specific professional responsibilities

• The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) Code of Ethics

• ACM/IEEE Computer Society's Software Engineering Code of Ethics and Professional Practice, version 5.2, developed by the Software Engineering Coordinating Committee (SWECC)

• USENIX System Administrators Guild (SAGE) Code of Ethics

• The Online Ethics Center for Engineering and Science (onlineethics.org) Codes of Ethics and Conduct - compiled listing

References: Netiquette Guidelines

• The Net: User Guidelines and Netiquette, by Arlene H. Rinaldi

• The Core Rules of Netiquette, by Virginia Shea

• From the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF):
  • emoticon.list
  • homepage_smiley.capture - from "The Smiley Homepage"
  • smiley.list
  • smiley2.list

• The Smileys and Acronyms Dictionary

• Everything E-mail: E-mail Glossary