The Learning Center adheres to the University of Utah’s Academic Honesty Policy and the Academic Misconduct Policy from the Dean of Students. In general, we assume that all work brought to us is the student user’s original work and that they are allowed to engage the help of a tutor in completing their work.

• Tutors will not complete any portion of a student’s homework for them. 
• Tutors will not help students with any exams or quizzes without the permission of the instructor.  
• If a student is suspected of cheating or plagiarizing their work, this will be reported to Learning Center staff, professors, and any other appropriate entities.  

Guidelines on Academic Integrity 

The following definitions can also be found in Policy 6-410: Student Academic Performance, Academic Conduct, and Professional and Ethical Conduct: 

1. “Academic Misconduct” includes, but is not limited to, cheating, misrepresenting one's work, inappropriately collaborating, plagiarism, and fabrication or falsification of information, as defined further below. It also includes facilitating Academic Misconduct by intentionally helping or attempting to help another to commit an act of Academic Misconduct.
2. “Cheating” involves the unauthorized possession or use of information, materials, notes, study aids, or other devices in any academic exercise, or the unauthorized communication with another person during such an exercise. Common examples of cheating include, but are not limited to, copying from another Student's examination, submitting work for an in-class exam that has been prepared in advance, violating rules governing the administration of exams, having another person take an exam, altering one's work after the work has been returned and before resubmitting it, or violating any rules relating to academic conduct of a course or Program.
3. Misrepresenting one's work includes, but is not limited to, representing material prepared by another as one's own work, or submitting the same work in more than one course without prior permission of both Faculty Members.
4. “Plagiarism” means the intentional unacknowledged use or incorporation of any other person's work in, or as a basis for, one's own work offered for academic consideration or credit or for public presentation. Plagiarism includes, but is not limited to, representing as one's own, without attribution, any other individual's words, phrasing, ideas, sequence of ideas, information or any other mode or content of expression. 

• Cancellations made at least 24 hours before a scheduled appointment via Penji will be processed without a penalty.
• Cancellations made within 24 hours of the appointment will result in a four-day scheduling block on Penji for Learning Center tutoring appointments. 
• Rescheduling an appointment must be done at least 24 hours before a scheduled appointment or it will be considered a late cancellation.

Please notify us as soon as possible if you believe you have a valid reason for your late cancellation to  discuss the possibility of removing the block. We can only waive two policy violations per semester. 

• Tutors and students are required to wait 10 minutes for a 30-minute appointment and 15 minutes for a 60-minute appointment.
• No-show appointments will result in a four-day scheduling block on your Penji account for Learning Center tutoring appointments.

Please notify us as soon as possible if you believe you have a valid reason for your no-show appointment to discuss the possibility of removing the block. We can only waive two policy violations per semester.