Student Attendance
Students are required to attend all the classes at the specified time. Teachers shall check students’ attendance at every class by asking names, doing quizzes or answering questions. The attendance is worth 10 points on the final grade of each course. In case that the student cannot make for the class, he/she should go to ICB office to get the approval for Absence and present it to the teacher concerned.

Academic Integrity
A university’s reputation is built on a standing tradition of excellence and scholastic integrity. As members of the International College at Beijing academic community, faculty and students accept the responsibility to maintain the highest standards of intellectual honesty and ethical conduct in completing all forms of academic work at the University.

Forms of Academic Dishonesty
Students are expected to know, understand, and comply with the ethical standards of the University. In addition, students have an obligation to inform the appropriate official of any acts of academic dishonesty by other students of the University. Academic dishonesty is defined as a student’s use of unauthorized assistance with intent to deceive an instruction or other such person who may be assigned to evaluate the student’s work in meeting course and degree requirements. Examples of academic dishonesty include, but are not limited to, the following:

Plagiarism
Plagiarism is the use of another person’s distinctive ideas or works without acknowledgement. The incorporation of another person’s work into one’s own requires appropriate identification and acknowledgement, regardless of the means of appropriation.

The followings are considered to be forms of plagiarism when the source is not noted:
1. Word-for-word copying of another person’s ideas or works
2. The mosaic (the interspersing of one’s own works here and there while, in essence, copying another’s work)
3. The paraphrase (the rewriting of another’s work, yet still using their fundamental idea or theory)
4. Fabrication (invention or counterfeiting sources)
5. Submission of another’s work as one’s own
6. Neglecting quotation marks on material that is otherwise acknowledged.

Acknowledgement is not necessary when the material used is common knowledge.

Cheating
Cheating involves the possession, communication, or use of information, materials, notes, study aids, or other devices not authorized by the instructor in any academic exercise, or communication with another person during such an exercise. Examples of cheating are:
1. Copying from another’s paper or receiving unauthorized assistance from another during an academic exercise or in the submission of academic material
2. Using a calculator when its use has been disallowed
3. Collaborating with another student or students during an academic exercise without the consent of the instructor

Multiple Submissions
This is the submission of academic work for which academic credit has already been earned, then such submission is made without lecturer authorization.

Misuse of Academic Materials
The misuse of academic materials includes, but is not limited to, the following:

1. Stealing or destroying library or reference materials or computer programs
2. Stealing or destroying another student’s notes or materials, or having such materials in one’s possession without the owner’s permission
3.Receiving assistance in location or using sources of information in an assignment when such assistance has been forbidden by the instructor
4. Illegitimate possession, disposition, or use of examinations or answer keys to examinations
5. unauthorized alteration, forgery, or falsification of academic records
6. unauthorized sale or purchase of examinations, papers, or assignments

Complicity in Academic Dishonesty
Complicity involves knowingly contributing to another’s acts of academic dishonesty.

Procedures in Cases of Suspected Academic Dishonesty
1. Faculty, staff members, or students may submit charges of academic dishonesty against students. A student who has evidence that another student is guilty of academic dishonesty should inform the lecturer or the Manager of Student Records in writing.
2. A faculty member who has evidence that a student is guilty of academic dishonesty should confront the student with the evidence. In cases of academic dishonesty, the faculty member may fill out the form of Disciplinary Report of Student Assignment or the form of Disciplinary Report of Student Examination and submit to the Manager of Student Records of the program.