About the Honor Code

Jurisdiction: All students of the University of Colorado at Boulder enrolled in credit or non-credit classes are subject to the Honor Code for academic matters. This includes, but is not limited to, the main campus, Continuing Education, and Study Abroad.

The existing school/college ethics committees will continue to be at the forefront of academic integrity by addressing academic integrity issues peculiar to their schools/colleges. The Honor Council and the Campus Ethics Committee will work closely with the individual school/college ethics committees to promote academic integrity on a campus-wide basis.

As students of a self-regulating profession, the Law School will maintain its current Honor Code and will submit all records pertaining to violations to the Honor Code Office.

Violations: Violations of the Honor Code are acts of academic dishonesty and include but are not limited to: plagiarism, cheating, fabrication, aid of academic dishonesty, lying to course instructors, lying to representatives of the Honor Code, bribery or threats pertaining to academic matters, or an attempt to do any of the aforementioned violations.

Academic Dishonesty: Any of the following acts, when committed by a student at the University of Colorado at Boulder, shall constitute academic dishonesty:

Plagiarism: Portrayal of another’s work or ideas as one’s own;

Cheating: Using unauthorized notes or study aids, allowing another party to do one's work/exam and turning in that work/exam as one's own; submitting the same or similar work in more than one course without permission from the course instructors;

Fabrication: Falsification or creation of data, research or resources, or altering a graded work without the prior consent of the course instructor;

Aid of Academic Dishonesty: Intentionally facilitating plagiarism, cheating, or fabrication;

Lying: Deliberate falsification with the intent to deceive in written or verbal form as it applies to an academic submission;

Bribery: Providing, offering, or taking rewards in exchange for a grade, an assignment, or the aid of academic dishonesty;

Threat: An attempt to intimidate a student, staff, or faculty member for the purpose of receiving an unearned grade or in an effort to prevent the reporting of an Honor Code violation.

Faculty: All references to faculty include, but are not limited to, full, associate, and assistant professors, senior instructors, instructors, lecturers, adjunct faculty, graduate teaching assistants, graduate part-time instructors, and undergraduate teaching assistants.

Academic Sanctions: only given by faculty. These include assignment grades, course grades, additional assignments and the like.

Non-Academic Sanctions: Non-academic sanctions are determined by the Hearing Panels upon a finding of an Honor Code violation. These include letters of warning, Academic Ethics Seminars, probation, recommendation for suspension or expulsion.