C.2.01 Academic Integrity:
The System upholds the academic core values of learning: honesty, respect, fairness, and accountability. It promotes the importance of personal and academic honesty. It embraces the belief that all learners - students, faculty, staff and administrators - will produce their own work, and must give appropriate credit to the work of others. No fabrication of sources, cheating or unauthorized collaboration is permitted on any work submitted within the System.
C.2.02 Academic Dishonesty:
Academic dishonesty includes, but is not limited to, plagiarism and cheating.
C.2.03 Consequences of Academic Dishonesty:
Professors retain primary responsibility for matters relating to academic integrity within their classes. Professors should clearly state in a written report how the student's actions violated the academic integrity policy, how a grade was calculated and the actions taken.
Students wishing to appeal a penalty for alleged academic dishonesty in the classroom must use the academic appeal process. See V.C.3 Academic Appeals.
Students wishing to appeal sanctions imposed for an academic integrity violation related to general student conduct must do so through the Student Discipline Appeal Committee (See Section VI.F.6., Student Appeals).
LSCS Policy Manual Section adopted by the Board of Trustees on August 7, 2008