All students are prohibited from engaging in the following acts of academic dishonesty:

1. (1) Cheating: A form of academic dishonesty in which there is an intent to deceive and in which the use of unauthorized materials or assistance is exploited. Examples of cheating include, without limitation: (i) copying another's work; (ii) obtaining or giving unauthorized assistance on exams, papers, or other coursework; (iii) unauthorized collaboration or collusion with another person on an examination or academic assignment; (iv) having another person take an exam for the student by proxy; and (v) the use of unauthorized materials or devices, including, but not limited to, computers, calculators, cell phones, cheat sheets, or other resources not allowed by the course instructor.
2. (2) Plagiarism: The use of intellectual property or work product of another without giving proper credit. Examples of plagiarism include, without limitation: (i) using written or spoken words, phrases, or sentences from any source without proper attribution or citation; (ii) summarizing ideas from another source without proper attribution or citation, unless such information is recognized as common knowledge; (iii) using facts, statistics, graphs, pictorial representations, or phrases in one's work without acknowledgment or proper attribution of the source of such information, unless such information is recognized as common knowledge; (iv) submitting work as one's own that is either in whole or in part created by a professional service; and (v) using previously submitted academic work by the student for any assignment without the permission of the course instructor.
3. (3) Falsification, Fabrication, or Misrepresentation: Falsifying, fabricating, or misrepresenting data, laboratory results, research results, citations, or other information in connection with an academic assignment, or altering grades, answers, or marks in an effort to change the earned grade or credit.
4. (4) Use of Unauthorized Materials: Providing, bringing, receiving, and/or using unauthorized material during an examination or for any academic assignment.
5. (5) Use of Unauthorized Assistance: Providing, bringing, receiving, and/or using unauthorized assistance during an examination, laboratory work, field work, scholarship, or other academic assignment, or collaborating with another on a graded assignment without the instructor's approval.
6. (6) Gaining Unfair Advantage: Gaining an objectively unfair academic advantage by failing to observe the expressed procedures or instructions relating to an exam or academic assignment.
7. (7) Causing Unfair Disadvantage: Engaging in any conduct that unfairly places another student at a disadvantage, including, but not limited to, taking, hiding, or altering resource material or manipulating a grading system.
8. (8) Attempting or Assisting a Violation: Attempting to commit a violation of the Honor Code or assisting others to commit a violation of the Honor Code.

Authority: T.C.A. § 49-9-209(e); Public Acts of Tennessee, 1839-1840, Chapter 98, Section 5; and Public Acts of Tennessee, 1807, Chapter 64. Administrative History: Original rule filed September 15, 1976; effective October 15, 1976. Repeal and new rule filed May 27, 1986; effective August 12, 1986. Repeal and new rules filed September 30, 2019; effective December 29, 2019.