SAN ANTONIO — Their goal was an honor code that discouraged cheating and plagiarizing.
However, the wording in a draft by students at the University of Texas at San Antonio appears to match another school’s code — without proper attribution.
The student currently in charge of the honor code project said it was an oversight.
Akshay Thusu said when he took over the project a month ago, he inherited a draft by earlier participants, including students who attended a conference five years ago by the Center for Academic Integrity at Clemson.
Materials from the conference, which are used by many universities, were probably the main source of UTSA’s proposed code, Thusu said. That’s why parts of the draft match word-for-word the online version of Brigham Young University’s code.
BYU credited the Center for Academic Integrity, but the San Antonio draft doesn’t.
That will change, said Thusu, who plans to include proper attribution when the draft is submitted to the faculty senate.
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