Plagiarism & Academic Dishonesty: Consequences

If you plagiarize, you may:

  • receive a failing grade for the assignment
  • fail the course
  • be expelled from Rutgers, Camden


Procedures as stated in the Rutgers University Catalogue:

  • Your professor obtains the source and compares your paper to it.
  • Your professor highlights plagiarized sections of your paper.
  • Your professor sends your paper and source to the Dean's Office.

The Dean's Office determines the level of infraction and imposes sanctions:

Level One:

  • Infraction: Improper footnoting or unauthorized assistance.
  • Sanction: Makeup assignment.

Level Two:

  • Infraction: Quoting or paraphrasing without acknowledgement on a moderate portion of the assignment.
  • Sanction: Probation, a failing grade for the assignment and/or the course.

Level Three:

  • Infraction: Copying or giving assistance on a final exam, plagiarizing major portions of an assignment, using forbidden material during an exam, using a purchased term paper, or altering a graded examination.
  • Sanction: Suspension from the university for one or more terms, with a notation of "academic disciplinary suspension" placed on a student's transcript, and a failing grade in the course.

Level Four:

  • Infraction: Forgery of grade change forms, theft of examinations, dishonesty relating to a graduation thesis, sabotage, and the violation of an ethical code of a profession.
  • Sanction: Expulsion and a permanent transcript notation.

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