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This reserved space will contain the narrated overview for Policy Family III. The written policy below remains the controlling text.
Institutional Standard
Academic dishonesty is prohibited. Students are bound by the current CUNY Academic Integrity Policy, the John Jay College Academic Integrity Policy, this manual, the syllabus, and assignment-specific instructions. Academic and disciplinary consequences are handled through the applicable College and University processes.
Student Work Must Be Student Work
Every submission must honestly represent the student’s own learning, analysis, research, judgment, and authorized process. A student may not submit work produced by another person, purchased from a third party, copied from an online source, recycled without permission, or created through a process that the assignment prohibits.
Independent-Work Default
Unless Professor Wandt expressly authorizes collaboration for a particular activity, graded work must be completed independently. Students may discuss general course concepts and study together, but they may not collaborate on the production of an individual graded submission.
Prohibited collaboration includes:
- co-writing, co-outlining, shared drafting, or jointly prepared research notes for individual work;
- peer editing outside an expressly authorized course activity;
- sharing answers, code, prompts, AI outputs, drafts, or analysis for the purpose of producing graded work;
- using friends, coworkers, tutors, editors, contractors, or other people to create or materially revise a submission; and
- helping another student violate an independent-work rule.
An assignment may authorize group work, peer review, tutoring, or another form of collaboration. That permission is limited to the scope stated in the instructions.
Use of Sources
Students must accurately cite and attribute ideas, language, quotations, data, images, code, tools, and other material that is not their own. Paraphrasing without attribution remains improper. Copying language and making minor changes does not make it original.
Citations must exist, support the proposition for which they are used, and accurately describe the authority or source. Students may not fabricate, distort, or mischaracterize facts, quotations, data, cases, statutes, regulations, research, or other authorities.
Integrity Review
Professor Wandt may ask a student to explain or reproduce the sources, methods, drafts, code, data, prompts, analysis, calculations, or technical steps used to complete work. The student may be asked to answer questions orally or in writing or to reproduce part of the process under controlled conditions.
An inability or refusal to explain work in a manner consistent with the submission may be considered in evaluating authorship, learning, and possible academic dishonesty. Any formal allegation will be handled under applicable College and CUNY procedures.