Bob Jones University AI Policy

Cheating in any form is not tolerated. Cheating includes:

• Unauthorized provision or use of notes, textbooks, or other unauthorized helps on a test or

assignment—such as requesting or accepting answers on a quiz or test from another student who

has already taken it, discussing test information to any extent with other students, transmitting

quizzes or tests or answers to quizzes or tests electronically to other students via cellphone, email,

etc.

• Reporting false information about the completion of an assignment, including turning in someone’s

work as one’s own (another student’s, a purchased paper from an online source, etc.).

• The unauthorized collaboration with any other person on an academic exercise, including

collaboration on a take-home or makeup academic exercise.

All work is to be done individually unless group work is explicitly permitted.

For regular individual assignments, we expect that the submitted work represents the student’s own intellectual effort, defined as follows:

1. The program was written primarily by the student. This means that most of the code (aside from starting code provided by the instructor) must have been crafted, not copied, by the student.

2. External resources used, whether electronic or from another human, must be documented as follows:

1. Code snippets copied from online resources must be documented by a comment just above the copied snippet giving the URL of the page containing the source.

2. Explanatory help or advice regarding the design or implementation of the solution received from people other than the instructor must be documented in a report accompanying the assignment submission.

Note that students must not consult a solution to the assignment as a resource in crafting their own solution, nor share their own solution with another student. Doing so constitutes cheating.

Cheating in any form is not tolerated. Cheating includes:

• Unauthorized provision or use of notes, textbooks, or other unauthorized helps on a test or

assignment—such as requesting or accepting answers on a quiz or test from another student who

has already taken it, discussing test information to any extent with other students, transmitting

quizzes or tests or answers to quizzes or tests electronically to other students via cellphone, email,

etc.

• The unauthorized use of electronic instruments such as cellphones or other mobile devices to access

or share information.

• The unauthorized collaboration with any other person on an academic exercise, including

collaboration on a take-home or makeup academic exercise.

• Bypassing or attempting to bypass security measures or electronic assessments, (e.g., passwords).

• Unauthorized use of a proctor who does not meet assigned criteria.

No collaboration is allowed on tests.

Cheating on a final exam brings denial of reenrollment.

AI should enhance—not replace—your own thinking, voice, and experiences.

AI is a powerful assistant, not a replacement for your judgement, effort, or authenticity.

Note: The Center for Career and Calling views generative AI, such as ChatGPT and Copilot, as supplementary tools for students’ career development and encourages students to evaluate ways it may be helpful.

All work is to be done individually unless group work is explicitly permitted. No collaboration is allowed on tests. For regular individual assignments, we expect that the submitted work represents the student’s own intellectual effort, defined as follows:

1. The program was written primarily by the student. This means that most of the code (aside from starting code provided by the instructor) must have been crafted, not copied, by the student.

2. External resources used, whether electronic or from another human, must be documented as follows:

1. Code snippets copied from online resources must be documented by a comment just above the copied snippet giving the URL of the page containing the source.

2. Explanatory help or advice regarding the design or implementation of the solution received from people other than the instructor must be documented in a report accompanying the assignment submission.

3. The student must be able to explain, on demand, the entirety of the program on both the syntactic and semantic level.

Note that students must not consult a solution to the assignment as a resource in crafting their own solution, nor share their own solution with another student. Doing so constitutes cheating.

You may work out designs in pseudocode on paper with another student, but you must write program code by yourself.

• Reporting false information about the completion of an assignment, including turning in someone’s

work as one’s own (another student’s, a purchased paper from an online source, etc.).

• The unauthorized collaboration with any other person on an academic exercise, including

collaboration on a take-home or makeup academic exercise.

Another form of cheating is plagiarism, the intentional or unintentional use, to any degree, of the

ideas or words of one’s source material without proper acknowledgement.

Substantial—Failure to acknowledge the use of an author’s ideas or organization by footnote or

identification of the source in the text of the paper.

Verbal—Failure to acknowledge the use of an author’s words by quotation marks, as well as by

footnote or identification in the text.

• Any student whose paper clearly exhibits plagiarism of substance or expression will receive an F on

the assignment and may be required to submit a replacement assignment for no credit.

• If the course is one in which the preparation of an acceptable research paper is the main

requirement, the student whose research paper exhibits plagiarism will receive an F in the course.

Falsification of Data, Information or Records: Furnishing or conspiring to furnish false

information to the University by forgery, alteration or misuse of, among other things, university

documents, academic records, research data, or professional or academic credentials is strictly

prohibited.

Other issues of academic integrity include collusion—cooperating with or assisting other students

for the purpose of cheating; recycling—submitting work for which the student has already received

credit; sabotage—destruction or deliberate inhibition of progress of another student’s work; and

falsification of data, information, or records.

A key aspect of Christlike character is integrity. In their academic lives, students exhibit integrity

by being truthful about their own academic work and properly acknowledging sources of ideas

and information.

• Copying from another student’s test or assignment or allowing another person to copy

one’s own academic, research or creative work—whether intentionally or recklessly.

Falsification of Data, Information or Records: Furnishing or conspiring to furnish false

information to the University by forgery, alteration or misuse of, among other things, university

documents, academic records, research data, or professional or academic credentials is strictly

prohibited.

A key aspect of Christlike character is integrity. In their academic lives, students exhibit integrity by being truthful about their own academic work and properly acknowledging sources of ideas and information.

Substantial—Failure to acknowledge the use of an author’s ideas or organization by footnote or identification of the source in the text of the paper.

Verbal—Failure to acknowledge the use of an author’s words by quotation marks, as well as by footnote or identification in the text.

External resources used, whether electronic or from another human, must be documented as follows:

1. Code snippets copied from online resources must be documented by a comment just above the copied snippet giving the URL of the page containing the source.

2. Explanatory help or advice regarding the design or implementation of the solution received from people other than the instructor must be documented in a report accompanying the assignment submission. This report must detail:

1. Source of information (e.g., name/email of the person who helped)

2. Relevance (i.e., how this resource helped and/or what it provided)

Plagiarism Checking—Students should be aware that faculty members have access to software

programs that allow them to check student writing for plagiarism.

Course instructors who have evidence of a possible violation of the BJU Academic Integrity

Policy must formally report the incident to the dean and the provost.

Because the University wants a record of such instances in order to detect

patterns that may be developing or repeat offenses that require disciplinary intervention, the

provost will notify the dean of students’ office to enter each cheating offense into DC Central

(including those that do not involve disciplinary penalty).

Sanctions: Sanctions for academic integrity violations may include (but are not limited to) the

following:

1. A written warning;

2. A reduced grade on the assignment;

3. A reduced grade in the course;

4. Additional academic assignments and/or other educational initiatives;

5. Failure of the course;

6. Suspension from the University. Substantiated cheating on a final exam brings denial of

reenrollment;

7. Permanent dismissal from the University or non-reenrollment.

Be truthful. Al hallucinates and fabricates information. Carefully inspect the results to ensure the content you use is accurate and authentic. Follow the employer instructions for using AI in the application, and protect your personal information.

Upload or copy/paste your self-assessment results (Focus 2, Strong Interest Inventory, Strengths Finder) and ask AI to tell you what occupations/industries are a good fit for your results. Be sure to leave out any personally identifying information.

Note: The Center for Career and Calling views generative AI, such as ChatGPT and Copilot, as supplementary tools for students’ career development and encourages students to evaluate ways it may be helpful. But while generative AI has potential, it cannot replace personalized guidance, real-world insights, and holistic career planning, making career center engagement critical for complete and tailored career development.