University Policy on Academic Integrity

The university strives to develop and maintain a high level of ethics and honesty among all members of its community.

New Jersey Institute of Technology is an institution dedicated to the pursuit of knowledge through teaching and research.  The university expects that its graduates will assume positions of leadership within their professions and communities.  Within this context, the university strives to develop and maintain a high level of ethics and honesty among all members of its community. Imperative to this goal is the commitment to truth and academic integrity.  This commitment is confirmed in this NJIT University policy on Academic Integrity.

The essential quality of this Policy is that each student shall demonstrate honesty and integrity in the completion of all assignments and in the participation of the learning process. Adherence to the University policy on Academic Integrity promotes the level of integrity required within the university and professional communities and assures students that their work is being judged fairly with the work of others. This Policy defines  those behaviors  which violate  the principles of academic integrity,  describes  a range of appropriate sanctions  for offenses,  and identifies  a method  for promoting the principle  of academic integrity  on campus.

Plagiarism:

Using or attempting to use written, oral, or graphic work which was authored or prepared by another and submitting it as one’s own without appropriate citation or credit. Intentionally or knowingly representing the words or ideas of another as one’s own in any academic exercise

Cheating: 

Intentionally using, providing or attempting to use or provide unauthorized assistance, materials, information or study aids in any academic exercise, or preventing, or attempting to prevent, another from using authorized assistance and/or materials. Intentionally or knowingly helping or attempting to help another person commit an act of academic dishonesty.

Fabrication:

Intentional and unauthorized falsification or invention of any information or citation in any academic exercise, citing nonexistent or irrelevant works, making up citations on a bibliography or works cited page, skewing data in accord with what you think the results should be, or changing answers after an exam has been returned.

University Code on Academic Integrity