This document outlines Berkeley College's policy on academic integrity and honor code. It defines actions that violate the honor code such as cheating, plagiarism, and unauthorized collaboration. It describes procedures for faculty to report honor code violations using an Academic Integrity Report form. It also explains corrective actions taken for students depending on the number of reported offenses, such as tutorials or counseling for first offenses and potential suspension or dismissal for third offenses. The goal is to increase awareness of academic integrity and implement consistent procedures to address violations.

1. Academic Integrity

2. Honor Code
• Berkeley College is committed to supporting
its mission to provide an educational
experience designed to develop professional
competencies including habits of personal and
professional integrity.
• The College expects all members of its
community - students, faculty, and staff-to act
honestly in all situations.

3. Actions of Academic Dishonesty
• Cheating, intentionally using, or attempting to use unauthorized materials,
information, or study aids in any academic exercise.
• Fabricating information or citations in any academic exercise.
• Intentionally or knowingly helping or attempting to help another student to violate
a provision of the Berkeley honor code of academic integrity.
• Committing plagiarism – the deliberate adoption or reproduction of ideas, words,
or statements of another person as one’s own without acknowledgement of the
true author.
• Downloading files from the internet and presenting them as one’s own.
• Intentionally sharing information or collaborating with other individuals in an
academic exercise when such actions are not specifically approved by the course
instructor.

4. Reporting and Adjudicating
Student Infractions of the Honor Code
Berkeley College has adopted a policy designed to increase
the awareness of Academic Integrity across campuses and to
implement a system for reporting, adjudicating, and
instituting corrective remedies for breaches of the Student
Honor Code.
The implementation of academic integrity across our
campuses depends upon faculty members reporting student
infractions and requesting remedial measures for students via
the assistance of Student Development and the Academic
Support Center.

5. Berkeley College
Instructor’s Academic Integrity Report
Instructor: complete the following information and submit to Student Development Office.
Date: _______________
Student: ______________________________ ID Number:________________
Course number, section and title: _____________________________
Instructor: __________________________________________
Breach of academic conduct:
Cheating: ______________________________________________
Plagiarizing: ____________________________________________
Other: ______________________________________________________________
Instructor’s action taken: circle or underline one of the following
Failing grade for the test/exam Revision of assignment with grade
Failing grade for the assignment F grade for this course
Other disciplinary action taken ___________________________________________
Instructor’s signature: _____________________________________________
Student’s signature: _______________________________________________
Student Development Office: advise student of corrective action to be taken and place report in the student’s file.
Date received: ______________
Student Development signature: ____________________________
Faculty can obtain the
Instructor’s Report
from either the
Faculty Orientation or
CELT Organization in
Blackboard.

6. Academic Integrity Report
• Faculty should promptly complete a formal report clearly indicating
the student’s infraction and the instructor’s penalty for that
infraction. The instructor must inform the student by reviewing the
report with him/her. Both the instructor and student must sign the
report.
• The instructor’s report, original or copy, must be submitted to the
Student Development Office for referral and follow-up measures
designed to correct the student’s behavior.
• Faculty can obtain the Instructor’s Report from either the Faculty
Orientation or the CELT Organization.

7. Academic Integrity Officers
Garret Mountain Campus
Amy Melissa Young
973-278-5400 x 1323
amy@berkeleycollege.edu
Paramus Campus
Jennifer Litvak
201-967-9667 x 1736
jrl@berkeleycollege.edu
Middlesex Campus
Kevin Frey
732-750-1800 x 2330
kcf@berkeleycollege.edu
Newark Campus
Sandra Garcia
973-642-3888 x 6185
sdg@berkeleycollege.edu
Online Campus
Erin Selby
973-278-5400 x 6399
ems@berkeleycollege.edu

8. Use of the report regarding infractions of
cheating or plagiarism
• First offense by student: in addition to the faculty penalty, the following corrective measures are
mandatory for all students:
Exam cheating—students must take a tutorial in study techniques and test taking tips in the ASC.
Plagiarism—students must take a tutorial in MLA documentation in the ASC.
• Second offense (prior reported incidence of cheating or plagiarism): repeat tutorial in the ASC and
counseling by Student Development.
• Third offense (two prior reported incidents of cheating or plagiarism): automatic referral for adjudication
by the Associate Provost, Faculty Affairs. A third offense will result in the student being placed on
suspension for an academic quarter or dismissal from the college.
• Students will be advised that they have one week to arrange for their tutorial with the Academic Support
Center. If possible, completion of the tutorial and/or counseling should take place within the current
quarter.