Faculty of Science and University Rules

Student Affairs Student Guide for the academic year 2015-2016

This is your guide to the services, information, policies and procedures - and the people - to help you feel comfortable in your surroundings. We want you to learn and grow. The Guide tells you what the resources are and where to find them. It gives advice on your health and well-being and lists the policies and procedures that directly affect you. In short, it can help to answer your questions or to find the people who can answer them for you.

The University of Manitoba, and in particular the Student Affairs Division, is committed to helping you have a successful and productive experience here. We encourage you to keep this close at hand and to contact the people on campus who are here to support you.

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PLAGIARISM AND CHEATING (University of Manitoba Undergraduate Calendar, p. 27)

To plagiarize is to take ideas or words of another person and pass them off as one s own. In short, it is stealing something intangible rather than an object. Obviously it is not necessary to state the source of well known or easily verifiable facts, but students are expected to acknowledge the sources of ideas and expressions they use in their written work, whether quoted directly or paraphrased. This applies to diagrams, statistical tables and the like, as well as to written material, and materials or information from Internet sources. To provide adequate documentation is not only an indication of academic honesty but also a courtesy which enables the reader to consult these sources with ease. Failure to do so constitutes plagiarism. It will also be considered plagiarism and/or cheating if a student submits a term paper written in whole or in part by someone other than him/herself, or copies the answer or answers of another student in any test, examination, or take‑home assignment.

Plagiarism or any other form of cheating in examinations or term tests (e.g., crib notes) is subject to serious academic penalty (e.g. suspension or expulsion from the faculty or university). A student found guilty of contributing to cheating in examinations or term assignments is also subject to serious academic penalty.

EXAMINATIONS: PERSONATIONS (University of Manitoba Undergraduate Calendar, p. 26)

A student who arranges for another individual to undertake or write any nature of examination for and on his/her behalf, as well as the individual who undertakes or writes the examination, will be subject to discipline under the university s Student Discipline Bylaw, which could lead to suspension or expulsion from the university. In addition, the Canadian Criminal Code treats the personation of a candidate at a competitive or qualifying examination held at a university as an offence punishable by summary conviction. Section 362 of the Code provides:

Personation at Examination

362. Every one who falsely, with intent to gain advantage for him/herself or some other person, personates a candidate at a competitive or qualifying examination held under the authority of law or in connection with a university, college or school or who knowingly avails him/herself of the results of such personation is guilty of an offence punishable on summary conviction. 1953‑ 54, c.51,s.347.

Both the personator and the individual who avails him/herself of the personation could be found guilty. Summary conviction could result in a fine being levied or up to two years of imprisonment.

Faculty of Science Statement on Academic Dishonesty

The Faculty of Science and The University of Manitoba regard acts of academic dishonesty in quizzes, tests, examinations, laboratory reports or assignments as serious offences and may assess a variety of penalties depending on the nature of the offence.

Acts of academic dishonesty include, but are not limited to bringing unauthorized materials into a test or exam, copying from another individual, using answers provided by tutors, plagiarism, and examination personation.

Note: cell phones, pagers, PDAs, MP3 units or electronic translators are explicitly listed as unauthorized materials, and must not be present during tests or examinations.

Penalties that may apply, as provided for under the University of Manitoba's Student Discipline By-Law, range from a grade of zero for the assignment or examination, failure in the course, to expulsion from the University. The Student Discipline By-Law may be accessed at:

Student Discipline Bylaw 2009.pdf

Suggested minimum penalties assessed by the Faculty of Science for acts of academic dishonesty are available on the Faculty of Science web-page:

Academic Dishonesty July 2012.pdf

All Faculty members (and their teaching assistants) have been instructed to be vigilant and report all incidents of academic dishonesty to the Head of the Department.