Every term, I end up turning in a few students for violations of the Honor Code. It sucks. I don’t like filling out the paperwork. I don’t like the feeling that students try to trick me. The students involved are all definitely unhappy.

To help avoid these sad scenarios, let’s talk about academic dishonesty this week. Here are some useful resources from the Virginia Tech Honor System that you should know about:

• Definitions of Academic Misconduct
• Information for Students
• FAQs for Students and Families
• Tips to Prevent Cheating in the Classroom

After you familiarize yourself with Virginia Tech’s policies and resources, read through the questions and answers on this Academic Honesty Quiz from the University of Rochester, and let us know your thoughts. You can consider these questions to get started. Please do NOT feel you need to address every quiz question.

• Do your agree with their results?
• Would you offer a different answer?
• Are there more options than the quiz suggests? What are they?
• What would you do if you were the teacher involved?
• Do you have plagiarism (or other academic dishonesty) questions that aren’t discussed in the quiz?