Honor Code & FERPA
The purpose of the honor code at the University of Colorado at Boulder is to secure for students an environment in which all individuals have responsibility for, and are appropriately recognized for, their individual academic and personal achievements.
Administered by students and supported by faculty, this honor code and support system educates as it protects. Each student who enters the university community will benefit from an honor code. All members of the academic community are encouraged to trust students, thus preserving the relationship between students and faculty or staff.
Although the honor system is maintained entirely by students, it is also an integral part of the mission of faculty at the university. Consequently, no student has an unfair academic or personal advantage over another. Since the honor code promotes these values, faculty members will have an ardent interest in its successful implementation.
What is a Violation?
PLEASE NOTE: Academically dishonest behaviors include, but are not limited to, the brief examples described below. If you are concerned about what constitutes academic dishonesty we encourage you to speak with the Tutor Coordinator or with the Director of the Herbst Academic Center.
Plagiarism:
- Portrayal of another's work or ideas as one's own.
- Buying a paper off the internet and turning it in as if it were your own work
- Improperly citing references on a works cited page or within the text of a paper
Cheating:
Using unauthorized notes or study aides, allowing another party to do one's work/exam as one's own, or submitting the same or similar work in more than one course without permission from the course instructors.
- Taking an exam for another person
- Looking off another person's exam for answers
- Bringing and using unauthorized notes during an exam
Fabrication:
Falsification or creation of data, research or resources, or altering a graded work without the prior consent of the course instructor.
- Making up a reference for a works cited page
- Making up statistics or facts for academic work
Aid of Academic Dishonesty:
Intentionally facilitating plagiarism, cheating, or fabrication
- Helping another person do a take home exam
- Giving answers to an exam
- Collaborating with others on work that is supposed to be completed independently
Lying:
Deliberate falsification with the intent to deceive in written or in 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.
- Paying a student to do work on your behalf
- Attempting to pay a teacher to change a grade
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.
Conflict of Interest
The Herbst Academic Center is an educational and professional organization dedicated to the academic achievement of student-athletes. As a tutor, you are an integral part of the academic process. Tutors are responsible for providing assistance to student-athletes in designated areas of expertise. To maintain professionalism and achieve academic development, the relationship between the tutor and the student-athlete whom you tutor must remain a tutorial relationship only (i.e. dating a student-athlete whom you tutor is not permitted). Tutors are expected to uphold the utmost professionalism when dealing with student-athletes. Tutors who are teaching assistants for a course and serve in a grading capacity may not tutor a student-athlete in that course during that semester.
Communication Policy, Confidentiality and FERPA
The law holds members of the Herbst Academic Center to standards of confidentiality. Any academic information that is disclosed by a student-athlete is considered confidential. This includes disclosing information about student-athletes to coaches, other athletic staff, the press or any individual who is not associated with the athletics department. The release of information is limited to the staff in the Herbst Academic Center only. Tutors, as well as the remainder of the staff, are to abide by the Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act (FERPA or the Buckley Amendment). This Act deals directly with the protection of educational records of student-athletes. For more information on FERPA please go to http://registrar.colorado.edu/regulations/ferpa_training.html.
Students should communicate with the Herbst Academic Center Academic Coordinators and the Tutor Coordinator. Tutors should not communicate directly with faculty members or coaches.