The Harvey Mudd Honor Code states that students are expected to act as responsible individuals, to conduct themselves with honesty and integrity both personally and academically and to respect the rights of others. The College considers these standards to be essential to its academic mission and its community life.

The following behaviors are inconsistent with the Honor Code:

• Cheating: using or attempting to use unauthorized assistance, material, or study aids in examinations or other academic work or preventing, or attempting to prevent another from using authorized assistance, material, or study aids.

  Example: using a cheat sheet in a quiz or exam, using a cell phone or other technology to obtain or share information during an exam, altering a graded exam and resubmitting it for a better grade.

• Plagiarism: using the ideas, data, or language of another without specific or proper acknowledgment.

  Example: copying another person's paper, article, or text from a website and submitting it for an assignment, quoting someone else's ideas without attribution, failing to use quotation marks where appropriate.

• Fabrication: submitting contrived or altered information in any academic exercise.

  Example: making up data for an experiment, fudging data, citing nonexistent articles, contriving sources. Multiple submissions: submitting, without prior permission, any work submitted to fulfill another academic requirement.

• Facilitating academic dishonesty: knowingly helping or attempting to help another violate a provision of the Code.

  Example: working together on a take-home exam.

• Unfair advantage: attempting to gain unauthorized advantage over fellow students in an academic exercise.

  Example: gaining or providing unauthorized access to examination materials, obstructing or interfering with another student's efforts in an academic exercise, lying about a need for an extension for an exam or paper, continuing to write even when time is up during an exam, destroying or keeping library materials for one's own use.