Academic Misconduct

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Student Conduct Overview Academic Misconduct Behavioral Misconduct Tips Faculty Members Tips for Students Student Conduct Incident Report Form Filing a Student Conduct Incident Report (Faculty Members) Filing a Student Conduct Incident Report (Students) If You Have a Student Conduct Incident Report Filed Against You
Official Document
UW Student Conduct Code
Getting Help
If you have encountered a case of misconduct, please review these pages first. Contact Student Affairs if you have questions or need further assistance.

Admission to the University of Washington carries the expectation that students will conduct themselves with the highest standards of academic honesty and integrity. All members of the University of Washington community (including members on all three campuses) should be familiar with the University of Washington Student Conduct Code .

Examples of academic misconduct are:

Cheating

Giving or receiving unauthorized assistance or intentionally using or attempting to use unauthorized materials or information

Fabrication

Creating false information, data, and/or presenting it as fact

Facilitation

Helping or attempting to help another student violate any part of the Student Conduct Code whether intentional or by failure to stop a known violation of the Code

Plagiarism

Includes, but is not limited to, intentionally or unintentionally using another person's original words, ideas or research in any academic exercise without properly crediting that person

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