Art Institute of Charlotte AI Policy

The University does not tolerate any form of Academic Dishonesty including such acts as plagiarism, cheating, and copying another student’s academic work.

• Presenting any work completed in whole or in part by any individual or group other than the student, as though the work is the student's own, in any academic exercise.

• Any information used from any source (books, magazines, articles, newspapers, interviews, television documentaries, films, websites, paintings, images, or other forms of original art or design work etc.) must be cited by providing the author’s name and appropriate reference information adhering to the Modern Language Association (MLA) or American Psychological Association (APA) style.

• Disseminating or receiving answers, data, or other information by any means other than those expressly permitted by the professor as part of any academic exercise.

• Copying answers, data, or other information (or allowing others to do so) during an examination, quiz, laboratory experiment, or any other academic exercise in which the student is not expressly permitted to work jointly with others.

• Using any device, implement, or other form of study aid during an examination, quiz, laboratory experiment, or any other academic exercise without the faculty member's permission.

• Any information used from any source (books, magazines, articles, newspapers, interviews, television documentaries, films, websites, paintings, images, or other forms of original art or design work etc.) must be cited by providing the author’s name and appropriate reference information adhering to the Modern Language Association (MLA) or American Psychological Association (APA) style. These citations must be provided when using anyone else’s ideas, concepts, theories, opinions, words, statements, images, photographs, and/or artwork. Failure to cite such information constitutes plagiarism on the part of the student.

• Use of exact words from any source (three or more words copied exactly) must be placed within quotation marks. Use of quotation marks indicates that the phrase, sentence, or paragraph was copied word for word. Failure to quote constitutes plagiarism on the part of the student.

• Summarization or paraphrasing ideas or words of a source must be cited using the MLA Style.

Students should be advised that the zero tolerance policy in regards to plagiarism applies to all courses at the University.

Students found to be in violation of the University plagiarism policy will be placed on Academic Probation for the remainder of their studies at the University. The incident will be reported in writing to the Academic Affairs Office.

An investigation of the alleged incident can include interviews with the faculty member, other witnesses, and the Academic Affairs Office. If the investigation reveals that there is evidence of an academic violation, disciplinary action will be taken that is commensurate with the severity of the offense. At the conclusion of the investigation, the student has the right to a hearing and has the right to question both the evidence and the witnesses to the violation.

Disciplinary action for a first-time offense may include one or more of the following:

1. Failure of the assignment, project, test, or paper.

2. Course failure

3. Immediate administrative withdrawal from all courses in the term and a grade of WF in each.

Extreme instances of plagiarism (multiple assignments plagiarized, use of essay writing services, etc.) may result