If a course instructor suspects that plagiarism has occurred, or if any party wishes to bring forth concerns surrounding the academic integrity of an individual or class session, the Learning Program Lead is to be contacted immediately.

MAS will convene a review panel of Program staff to investigate and review the claims. Other involved parties may be contacted, and there will be an examination of any materials relevant to the claims.

A further course of action will be determined based on any violations of the MAS Misconduct or Plagiarism Policy.

Academic misconduct is defined as any act by a student or students working in a group situation for the purpose to provide them with an unfair academic advantage and/or provide a false positive evaluation of their work. This misconduct can take multiple forms, not limited to and including:

• Plagiarism
• Cheating
• Submitting work completed for a previous course without prior permission from the present course instructor
• Unauthorized collaboration on individual course work, assignments, or examinations

Plagiarism is defined as the presentation of ideas, work, writing, or other materials created by others as your own. It can take many forms, not limited to and including:

• the presentation of written work or other materials not created or prepared by yourself as your own creation.
• This includes any materials (papers, assignments, etc.) that have been purchased
  the use of written or oral materials without any citation
  the use of written or oral materials without proper or adequate citation, as listed in the course syllabus
• paraphrasing information or concepts from written or oral materials without proper or adequate citation, as listed in the course syllabus
  distribution of proprietary MAS course materials not intended for public use to third parties without prior consent and/or the claiming of authorship/ownership of proprietary MAS course materials