6.5.2lp1 Plagiarism

Adopted: April 2009
Modified: May 2022 Scope: Students
Contact: Vice President of Academic Affairs

This is the procedure Lanier Technical College will follow in regards to plagiarized work received from a student.

When an instructor identifies plagiarized material, he or she will assign a grade of zero to the submission. The zero may be considered a consequence of not meeting the stated criteria for the task as well as of plagiarizing.
A copy of the assignment in which the plagiarism took place with documentation of the source of the original material will be given to the student and and sent to the instructor's academic dean to be filed.
If there is a second infraction by the student in any class during his/her remaining tenure at Lanier Technical College, the dean/director will contact the individual and counsel the student regarding academic repercussions. Penalties for the second act of plagiarism will be the same as the first, plus the instructor's option of giving the student an F in the course. See Code of Conduct from Student Handbook for the full scope of expected student conduct and penalties for infractions.