Academic Integrity

Cheating is never right anywhere. Thus you should never even consider doing it because there is always a better way of doing things. Even though sometimes cheating looks easy and you might get away with it the consequences are quite severe at ASU if you get caught. Academic integrity is very serious at a University. If you ever get caught cheating at ASU they can fail you, expell you, and worst of all put a permanent “XE” on your official transcript that will follow you for the rest of your life. That “XE” will be seen by future employers, and schools you might want to attend. When they see that they know that you cheated and there is no way to cover that you were dishonest. Academic integrity can be violated in several ways. One way of being academically dishonest is to use a paper from one class in another class. The reason is you worked once for two grades. Another type of academic dishonesty is taking a test for another person or cheating during a test (either copying or getting the answers from someone other than you). If you ever come across a situation where your doubting whether what you are doing is academically dishonest the best answer is to not do it because if you’re thinking about it it’s probably wrong. Integrity as Don Galer said “Integrity is what we do, what we say, and what we say we do”. You have a bright future ahead of you, don’t mess it up by being academically dishonest and getting the permanent “XE”.