Policy

1. The evaluation of student performance is built on the premise that the work submitted by the student is in fact their own work or is identified as collaborative. Academic integrity requires accountability in performing work honestly and ethically.
2. Academic dishonesty undermines academic integrity and will result in academic disciplinary sanctions. Academic dishonesty includes, but is not limited to, the following:
   1. Plagiarism, defined as representing the work of another as one's own
   2. Self-plagiarism, defined as reusing wording or assignments previously submitted
   3. Submitting as one's own, work completed by another person, or work completed through the unauthorized use of generative artificial intelligence applications
   4. Cheating by obtaining answers to test and examination questions through unauthorized materials, or information from another student
   5. Allowing another person to take an evaluation in one's place
   6. Impersonating another student in an evaluation
   7. Stealing or having unauthorized prior knowledge of an evaluation
   8. Falsifying or inventing any information required or used in an academic work, examples include inventing data and statistics, and falsifying sources
   9. Forging documentation, paying a company to forge documentation, or submitting otherwise fraudulent documentation required for the assessment of experiential learning such as co-op placements
   10. Modifying, without authorization, an examination or test paper, record or report for the purpose of obtaining additional credit
   11. Failing to comply with Lambton’s Test and Exam Writing Protocol policy (2000-1-6), and/or the policies and protocols of any given assessment
   12. Helping another person to commit an act of academic dishonesty

Academic Disciplinary Sanctions

3. Academic disciplinary sanctions will be progressive and proportionate to the severity of the offense.
4. A violation of this policy is determined by reviewing evidence, either discovered during the faculty investigation or provided by the student, judged by the standard of balance of probability.
5. Academic sanctions may include the following:
   1. Official warning with required academic integrity remediation.
   2. Re-completion and re-submission of the same or alternative assignment, possibly with a reduced grade.
   3. Reduction of grade without resubmission.
   4. 0 grade for the work, without resubmission.
   5. Failing the course.
   6. Immediate removal from the course with a TM grade.
   7. Suspension of the student from the College for at least nine months, with TM grades for all courses in which the student is registered, and no fee refund. The suspension will be noted on the student's transcript. The student will be required to apply to the College for readmission through the normal application process.
   8. Expulsion from the College. This expulsion will be recorded on the student's transcript. This penalty will result in TM grades in all courses in which the student is registered, and no fees will be refunded for the term. A student expelled from the College will not be eligible for readmission to any Lambton College programs or courses for at least five years. The student will be required to apply to the College for readmission through the normal application process. Readmission to the College will be at the sole discretion of the College and considered on a case-by-case basis.
6. A course grade of F/NP or TM imposed as an academic sanction supersedes any other grade or status for the course. Thus, a grade of F imposed as a sanction will replace any previously awarded grade (e.g. B), requested grade (e.g. W) or status (e.g. NG) in the course. A student may not continue in a course in which the sanction is applied to the final grade.
7. The authority for imposing a sanction depends on the sanction severity according to the below table:

Grades Issued

Tier	Academic Sanctions	Administration
Tier One Sanctions	Warning and Remediation Resubmission with a reduced grade, or 0 on the assignment, for all assignments less than 20% of the final course grade	Faculty
Tier Two Sanctions	Resubmission with a reduced grade, or 0 on the assignment, if the assignment is greater than or equal to 20% in value F/NP grade in the course TM grade in the course	Dean or Delegate
Tier Three Sanctions	Suspension Expulsion	Senior Vice President Academic & Student Success

Procedures

8. The Academic Integrity investigation, hearing, adjudication, and sanctioning processes will follow the procedures documented in the accompanying Academic Integrity Guide. The Academic Integrity Guide assigns ownership and timelines for each step.
9. Changes to the Guide are at the discretion of the Director, Institutional Intelligence and College Registrar, in consultation with the Senior Vice-President Academic and Student Success.

Appeal

10. A student has the right to appeal an academic integrity decision, following the policy and procedures documented within the Student Appeal Policy.

Record Retention

11. Disciplinary decisions and sanctions shall be made part of the student's official record for College administrative purposes. Documentation in a student’s Academic Offence File is retained in accordance with the College's Record Retention Policy.