Bilkent University Policy on Academic Honesty
A healthy and
productive academic environment is one in which academic and scholarly activities are
conducted in an atmosphere of honesty and trust. Any conduct which endangers this
atmosphere cannot be tolerated or condoned.
Responsibilities fall upon the administration, faculty, staff and students in ensuring
that the fundamental concept of academic honesty is known, acknowledged, maintained, and
made an integral part of the learning process:
- Administration - Establishing rules and guidelines; disseminating the
information; providing support to the efforts of others in this regard
- Faculty - Maintaining academic honesty in the classroom so that grades
given to students are truly indicative of the knowledge and skill level of the students;
taking appropriate and prompt action against violations of academic honesty on the part of
students
- Staff - Supporting the efforts of administration and staff in
maintaining academic honesty; notifying appropriate persons in cases of observed incidents
of academic dishonesty
- Students - Not committing dishonest academic behavior; notifying
appropriate persons in cases of observed incidents of academic dishonesty
Violations of academic honesty include but is not limited to cheating
on exams -- looking or attempting to look at another student's answers, allowing others to
copy one's answers -- and plagiarism on assignments and research papers
-- representing another's work as one's own.
Violations of academic honesty can result in disciplinary action, as stated in the
"Student Disciplinary Rules and Regulation" of the university:
(See applicable text in Turkish)
- "The use of somebody else’s ideas, viewpoints, findings or works in a paper,
project report or a similar document which is presented as part of a course requirement,
without proper acknowledgement of the source, can result in suspension from the University
for one week to one month." (Item 7.j)
- "To cheat during an exam and to submit any homework, project, report, term paper or
thesis which has been prepared by someone else as one’s own work, to prepare the same
for other persons, to submit someone else’s work with or without amendments, and to
present in a thesis someone else’s ideas or findings without due acknowledgment of the
source can result in suspension from the University for one to two semesters." (Item
8.l, 8.m)
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