Title: T: Academic Integrity Pledge
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Academic Integrity | Pledge

At the University of Oregon, academic integrity is central to our identity and our work ethic. As a member of the university community, it is your responsibility to know the Student Conduct Code, including the section on Academic Misconduct, and to act with integrity.

Because it is also extremely important to your work in this class (and beyond) that you act with academic integrity, you will see the Academic Misconduct portion of the code below. If you are unsure whether a behavior would be considered academic misconduct, please ask me directly--it is far better to get clarification than to guess and be reported for prohibited conduct.

The following behaviors constitute Academic Misconduct.

  1. Assisting in the commission of academic misconduct: Helping another engage in academic misconduct.
  2. Cheating: Unauthorized collaboration, accessing, or using of unauthorized materials, information, tools, or study aids.
  3. Fabrication: Providing false information in fulfillment of an academic assignment, exercise, or other requirement, including making up data, sources, efforts, events, or results and recording, reporting, or using them as authentic.
  4. Multiple submissions of work: Using or submitting the same or substantially the same academic work for credit more than once, unless specifically authorized by the instructor of record for the course in which it’s being submitted for credit. If authorized, appropriate disclosure and citation is required.
  5. Plagiarism: Presenting another’s material as one’s own, including using another’s words, results, processes or ideas, in whole or in part, without giving appropriate credit. Plagiarism is contingent on the content of the submitted work product, regardless of whether the unattributed material was included intentionally or unintentionally. The use of material taken from any source—whether directly quoted, paraphrased, or otherwise adapted—must be attributed to that source. Plagiarism also includes the submission of material generated by others. This may include artificial intelligence (AI) content generators and generative AI tools such as ChatGPT; websites with a question-and-answer feature such as Course Hero, Chegg, and Bing; assistance from tutors or online language translators that results in unoriginal work; and work that is purchased or otherwise prepared by another individual.
  6. Unauthorized Collaboration: Working with others in the submission of an assignment, exercise, or other academic requirement for assessment when not expressly permitted by the instructor. This section is not intended to prohibit the type of collaboration that promotes productive discourse and learning between students, such as engaging with lecture materials or course texts; discussing subject matter concepts, ideas, and themes; talking through problem-solving strategies and approaches; or study groups working to prepare for an exam. Unless expressly prohibited by the instructor, such collaboration is encouraged to the extent that students remain able to submit work for assessment which reflects their own individual interpretations, analysis, and conclusions. This level of collaboration will not constitute a violation of the Code, unless expressly prohibited by the instructor.
  7. Unauthorized recording and/or use: Recording and/or dissemination of instructional content, or other intellectual property, without the express written permission of the instructor(s), intellectual property owner or the Accessible Education Center

By typing your name in the text box below, you affirm that:

- I have read the UO Student Conduct Code.
- I will abide by the behavior set forth in the Student Conduct Code.
- I will not let anyone else use my username and/or password; and not access or attempt to access any other user's account, or misrepresent or attempt to misrepresent my or others identity while using Canvas or other applications in this course.
- I will neither give nor receive unauthorized assistance on assignments, exams, or other forms of assessments in this class.
- I will not make solutions to homework, quizzes, exams, projects, and other assignments available to anyone else (except to the extent an assignment explicitly permits sharing solutions). This includes both solutions written by me, as well as any solutions provided by the course staff or others.
- I will not engage in any other activities that will dishonestly improve my results or dishonestly improve or hurt the results of others.