Academic dishonesty includes a wide range of behaviors. The following are examples of dishonest acts:

•  Cheating on assignments or tests: Using unauthorized materials or devices, getting or giving help when it's not allowed, and having someone else take a test for you.
• Plagiarism: Presenting someone else's work, ideas, or words as your own without proper credit. This includes copying text from a website, book, or another student, or submitting a paper you bought online.
• Fabrication: Making up or altering information. Examples include creating fake data for a research project, falsifying a record of a work experience, or providing a fake excuse for missing class.
• Unauthorized collaboration: Working with others on an assignment when you were specifically told to do it alone.
• Misconduct in research: Falsifying or making up data in scientific or scholarly research.
• Using artificial intelligence (AI) without permission: Use of AI tools for assignments without permission from an instructor. Lying or misrepresenting information: Providing false information to university staff or professors or altering official documents or records.
• Sabotaging another student's work: intentionally damaging the progress or work of another student.
• Tampering with records. Altering grades, attendance logs, transcripts, or other official academic documents.

This list is not exhaustive, and other actions may be considered academic dishonesty. If you are ever unsure about expectations for a specific assignment or situation, it's always best to ask your professor for clarification.

The following is considered a violation of this policy:

• Substantial Disruption: You cannot disrupt university activities like classes, research, or administrative work. This applies to any method you use, whether it's in person, over the phone, or on a computer.
• Blocking Traffic: You can't block the free movement of people or cars on campus or at a university event.
• Preventing People from Doing Their Jobs: Your actions can't stop a professor, staff member, or another student from performing their duties.

Hurting or threatening to hurt another person is not allowed at the university. This includes both physical actions and words.

• Physical harm: Any action that causes injury, damage, or other pain to another person's body. This could be anything from hitting someone to other actions that cause them physical pain.
•  Threat: A statement or action that shows you intend to cause pain, injury, or harm to another person. It's important to remember that a threat can be made through words or actions. However, this rule does not include speech that is protected under the First Amendment (freedom of speech).

You cannot steal or intentionally damage someone else's property. This rule also applies to any reckless actions that result in damage to property, even if you didn't mean for it to happen.

•  Theft: This is taking something that belongs to another person or the university without their permission.
• Property Damage: This is intentionally or carelessly breaking, defacing, or destroying someone else's property. This includes property that belongs to the university.

Hazing can be physical or mental and can occur even if participation is voluntary. Here are some examples of activities that are considered hazing:

• Physical harm: Hitting someone or forcing them into overly tiring or unnatural physical activities.
• Psychological or emotional harm: Any activities that are humiliating, degrading, or cause psychological distress.
• Forcing consumption: Making someone drink alcohol, take drugs, or eat something they don't want to.
• Using alcohol in new member activities: Alcohol presence at any activities targeted toward new members.

Normal sports practices, training, and conditioning for athletic events are not considered hazing. This applies to intramural sports, club sports, or NCAA athletics.

Hazing is prohibited everywhere, both on and off campus.

At the university, you are expected to follow the instructions of university officials and law enforcement officers. It's a violation of policy if you:

• Don't follow directions: You must comply with the lawful instructions given by university staff, such as a Dean of Students, Housing and Residence Life staff or law enforcement officers while they are doing their jobs.
• Refuse to identify yourself: You must provide identification when a university official or law enforcement officer asks you to do so.
• Fail to comply with a resolution: You must follow through with any agreements made during an informal resolution process, such as a mediation or an agreement to correct a behavior.

You are not allowed to have or use university keys, key cards, or passcodes without permission. This includes any type of key that lets you into a university building or area.

• Have keys without permission: This includes physical keys, key cards, or digital passcodes that you were not authorized to have.
• Make copies of keys: You cannot duplicate any university keys or access cards.
•  Enter or use university areas without permission: Entering a building or room that you are not supposed to be in is a violation.

You're expected to follow all university rules and policies. This includes any rules published online or in print.

It means that violating any official university policy is a serious issue. Examples include breaking the alcohol and drug policies, rules about housing and residence life, or any other regulations found in published university documents the Executive Policy Manual, such as Executive Policy 15, the University’s policy that prohibits discrimination and harassment based on protected classes.

 If you break a federal, state, or local law, you are also violating university policy.

• Federal Law: Laws that apply to everyone in the United States.
•  State Law: Laws that apply to everyone within a specific state.
•  Local Law: Laws that apply to a specific city, county, or municipality.

The university prohibits the use, possession, or distribution of illegal drugs and drug-related items.

• Illegal drugs: This refers to substances like narcotics and other controlled substances that are not permitted by law.
• Possession: You are not allowed to have these substances on you or in your belongings.
• Distribution: Selling, giving away, or providing these substances to others is prohibited.
• Drug paraphernalia: Items used for making, using, or hiding illegal drugs are also not allowed.

Even though some substances may be legal in the state of Washington, federal law and university policy still prohibit their use on campus or at university-sponsored activities. It is your responsibility to understand and follow all applicable laws and university rules.

 It is against university policy to drink, have, make, alcohol under the following conditions. 

• Under 21: If you are under 21, you are not allowed to drink, possess, or share alcohol. You also cannot make your own alcohol.
• Giving to minors: No one, regardless of their age, can give alcohol to a person under 21.
• Public intoxication: Being drunk in public is not allowed, no matter how old you are.

 It is against university policy for students to have or use any weapons, explosives, or dangerous chemicals on campus. This includes firearms, fireworks, tasers, and airsoft guns. This excludes:

• Authorized Law Enforcement: Police officers or other authorized law enforcement personnel can have these items on campus.
• Approved University Activities: You may possess these items if it is for an authorized university activity.
• Written Permission: You may be allowed to have one of these items on campus if you have received prior written permission from the university's chief of police or president.
• Pepper Spray: Students can possess pepper spray on campus unless they are using it inappropriately.

Washington is a two-party consent state, which means you are not allowed to make a recording of someone without their knowledge or permission.

This rule applies to audio, video, or any other type of digital recording. It is a violation to record someone if:

• They don't know they are being recorded.
• They haven't given their permission.
• The recording is of a private conversation or images where a person would reasonably expect privacy. This could include a private meeting, someone's dorm room, or another personal space.
• The recording is likely to cause injury or distress.

You are not allowed to steal or misuse university computer systems or resources. This includes both the computers themselves, and the information stored on them.

• Unauthorized access: This means opening a file or account that you don't have permission to access. This includes reading, changing, or using the contents of a file.
• Stealing files: You can't transfer or copy a file without authorization.
• Unauthorized hardware use: You can't use computer equipment that you are not allowed to use.
• Using someone else's information: You are not allowed to use another person's username, password, or any other login information to access their account.
• Breaking the law: Using university computers to break any law is strictly prohibited.

Misusing the student conduct system is a serious offense.

• Filing False Charges: This is when you make up or intentionally lie about a complaint against another student.
• Discouraging Participation: You cannot try to stop or discourage someone from being part of the conduct process, such as a witness or the person who reported an incident.
• Influencing Decisions: You are not allowed to try and influence anyone involved in the process, like a board member, conduct officer, or investigator.
• Harassment or Intimidation: This includes any verbal, written, or physical harassment or intimidation of a student conduct board member, an investigator, or anyone else involved in a case. This applies before and after any community standards hearing.

Please review Executive Policy 15  and WAC 504-26-220 for the official policy.

Please review Executive Policy 15 and WAC 504-26-221 for the official policy.

Harassment is behavior that is so severe, persistent, or widespread that it causes significant emotional distress and makes it hard for a person to work, study, or participate in regular daily activities.

This rule applies to any kind of conduct that:

• Is severe, persistent, or pervasive: This means it isn't a one-time, minor event. It's either a very serious incident or something that happens repeatedly.
• Causes substantial emotional distress: The behavior is so upsetting that it would cause a reasonable person to feel extreme distress.
• Undermines their ability to function: It interferes with a person's ability to do their job, succeed in class, or take part in normal activities.

You are not allowed to act in a way that puts another person or property at risk. This includes any behavior that makes the campus community unsafe.

Reckless endangerment is acting with a disregard for the safety of others. This could include, but is not limited to:

• Driving under the influence: Operating a vehicle while intoxicated.
• Reckless driving: Driving without regard for the safety of others or property.
• Creating hazards: Placing dangerous items in a public area, such as a walkway or road.
• Throwing objects: Throwing things at cars or from a building.
• Tampering with safety equipment: Messing with or removing safety signs or equipment.

You are not allowed to trespass on university property in the following ways:

• Entering restricted areas: You are not allowed to go into buildings or areas that are closed to the public or designated as staff-only, like labs or offices, unless you have permission.
• Refusing to leave: If a university official, such as a police officer or administrator, asks you to leave a specific area or the entire campus, you must do so immediately.
• Violating a no-trespass order: You are not allowed to enter any area, building, campus or university property that you have been trespassed or banned from, without explicit written approval.

Please review Executive Policy 15 and WAC 504-26-227 for the official policy.

The university does not allow any form of retaliation. This means you cannot intimidate, threaten, or discriminate against anyone for participating in the student conduct process.

Retaliation is any action that is taken against a person because they:

• Made a report or a complaint.
• Testified or participated in an investigation or hearing.
• Refused to participate in an investigation or hearing.

Please review Executive Policy 15 and WAC 504-26-231 for the official policy.