Academic Catalog

23.3 Fabrication

Fabrication refers to falsifying or misusing data in any academic exercise.


Violation Sanction(s) (Refer to II.A)
i. Falsifying data collected in the conduct of research. 1, 2
ii. Making up or presenting falsified data in papers, manuscripts, books or other documents submitted for publication or as course or degree requirements. 1, 2
iii. Making up a source as a citation in an assignment. 1, 2
iv. Citing a source that the student did not use or does not exist. 1
v. Falsifying material cited. 1, 2
vi. Attempting to deceive the instructor by altering and resubmitting for additional credit, assignments that have previously been graded and returned. 1, 2
vii. Falsifying, changing, or misusing academic records or any official University form regarding oneself or others. 4 & 5
viii. Failing to be fully cooperative and truthful if one has direct knowledge of an alleged violation of academic integrity. 4 & 5
ix. Making a false accusation regarding a violation of academic integrity or other. 5