Academic Misconduct ILC prohibits plagiarism, falsification of records and other forms of academic misconduct. Violations will be punished by the appropriate Centre staff. Academic Misconduct includes but is not limited to the following: Aiding or abetting academic misconduct: Knowingly helping, procuring, or encouraging another person to engage in academic misconduct. Cheating: Any dishonesty or deception in fulfilling an academic requirement such as: Use and/or possession of unauthorized material or technology during an examination (any written or oral work submitted for evaluation and/or grade), such as tape cassette, notes, tests, calculators, or computer programs. Obtaining assistance with or answers to examination questions from another person with or without that person's knowledge. Furnishing assistance with or answers to examination questions to another person. Possessing, using, distributing, or selling unauthorized copies of an examination, or computer program. Representing as one's own an examination taken by another person. Taking an examination in place of another person. Obtaining unauthorized access to the computer files of another person or agency, and/or altering or destroying those files. Fabrication: The falsification of any information or citation in an academic exercise. Plagiarism: Submitting as one's own, original work, material obtained from an individual or agency without reference to the person or agency as the source of the material. Submitting another's published or unpublished work, in whole, in part, or in paraphrase, as one's own without fully and properly crediting the author with footnotes, citations or bibliographical reference. Submitting as one's own, original work, material that has been produced through unacknowledged collaboration with others without release in writing from collaborators. As used in this section, "work" includes but is not limited to printed texts, audio recordings, video recordings, photographs, drawings, still images, computer files and other electronically transmitted data, the contents of WebPages, interviews, and conversations pertinent to the work submitted. The consequences of misconduct are as follows: Probation: A period of time during which, the privilege of continuing in student status is conditional. The conditions may include, but are not limited to, loss of specified privileges which a current student would otherwise be entitled to and an acknowledgment by the student that any additional violations of the Student Code will result in a more serious sanction. Suspension: Separation of the student from student status from the centre for a definite period of time, after which the student is eligible to return. Conditions for re-admission may be specified. Dismissal: Dismissal occurs when a student who has been suspended returns to the Centre and fails to achieve good standing by the end of the following term. Readmission of a dismissed student will not be considered.