The NHMCCD Catalog contains the Academic Integrity procedures for the district. Plaigiarism is encompassed in Academic Integrity.

NHMCCD is committed to a high standard of academic integrity in the academic community. In becoming a part of the academic community, students are responsible for honesty and independent effort. Failure to uphold these standards includes, but is not limited to, the following: plagiarizing written work or projects, cheating on exams or assignments, collusion on an exam or project, and misrepresentation of credentials or prerequisites when registering for a course. Cheating includes looking at or copying from another student's exam, orally communicating or receiving answers during an exam, having another person take an exam or complete a project or assignment, using unauthorized notes, texts, or other materials or an exam, or obtaining or distributing an unauthorized copy of an exam or any part of an exam. Plagiarism means passing off as one's own the ideas or writings of another (that is, without giving proper credit by documenting sources). Plagiarism includes submitting a paper, report or project that someone else has prepared, in whole or in part. Collusion is inappropirately collaborating on assignments designed to be completed independently. These definitions are not exhaustive.

When there is clear evidence of cheating, plagiarism, collusion or misrepresentation, a faculty member will take disciplinary action including but not limited to: requiring the student to retake or resubmit an exam or assignment, assigning a grade of zero or "F" for an exam or assignment, or assigning a grade of "F" for the course. Additional sanctions including being withdrawn from the course/program or being expelled from school may be imposed on a student who violates the standards of academic integrity. (NHMCCD Catalog 2004-2005, pp. 49-50)

For more information please consult the latest issue of the NHMCCD Catalog.