CGTC FAQs: Academic Support

Academic dishonesty refers to any act that involves cheating, plagiarism, or misrepresentation in academic work. See Central Georgia Technical College's definition of academic misconduct from the 2025-26 Catalog:

Academic misconduct includes, but is not limited to, the following definitions:

1.Aiding and Abetting Academic Misconduct: Knowingly helping, procuring, encouraging or otherwise assisting another person to engage in academic misconduct.

2. Cheating:
        a. Use and/or possession of unauthorized material or technology during an examination, or any other written or oral work submitted for evaluation and/ or a            grade, such as tape cassettes, notes, tests, calculators, computer programs, cell phones and/ or smart phones, or other electronic devices 
        b. Obtaining assistance with or answers to an examination or any other written or oral work submitted for evaluation and/or a grade from another person with          or without that person’s knowledge.
        c. Furnishing assistance with or answers to an examination or any other written or oral work submitted for evaluation and/or a grade to another person. 
        d. Possessing, using, distributing or selling unauthorized copies of an examination, computer program, or any other written or oral work submitted for                      evaluation and/or a grade.
        e. Representing as one’s own an examination or any other written or oral work submitted for evaluation and/or a grade created by another person.
        f. Taking an examination or any other written or oral work submitted for evaluation and/or a grade in place of another person.
       g. Obtaining unauthorized access to the computer files of another person or agency and/or altering or destroying those files.
       h. Obtaining teacher edition text books, test banks, or other instructional materials that are only intended to be accessed by technical college officials, college        administrator, or faculty member.

3. Fabrication: The falsification of any information or citation in an examination or any other written or oral work submitted for evaluation and/or a grade.

4. Plagiarism:
      a. Submitting another’s published or unpublished work in whole, in part or in paraphrase, as one’s own without fully and properly crediting the author with                footnotes, quotation marks, citations, or bibliographical reference.
      b. Submitting as one’s own original work, material obtained from an outside source (such as individual agency, AI generative technology, etc.) without                      reference to the original source of the material.
      c. Submitting as one’s own original work material that has been produced through unacknowledged collaboration with others without release in writing from            collaborators.