Illinois Academic Misconduct Advisor

A high-quality education is predicated in the maintenance of academic integrity. This is why colleges and universities require each member of the campus community - students, staff, and faculty - to live up to its integrity standards in all academic feats and endeavors. But for students especially, the stakes are high.

This is why it's important for students accused of academic misconduct to pursue the assistance of an experienced attorney advisor. A legal professional understands what it takes to clear your name, salvage your reputation, and avoid tarnishing your academic record for outside institutions and employers to see.

What is Academic Misconduct?

In Illinois colleges and universities, there are guidelines imposed that specifically address student accountability and respect when it comes to the creation of their respective scholastic words, and the intellectual property of others. Academic misconduct occurs when a student fails to comply with the guidelines.

Academic Misconduct Violations

There are various forms of academic misconduct. The following is a list of definitions and examples of actions that may constitute academic misconduct, and therefore may be punishable, at your school:

Cheating: using deceitful, dishonest, or fraudulent tactics to gain academic merit.

• Allowing another person to write a paper for you
• Having a stand-in take a test for you, or standing in for someone else
• Sharing answers from a take-home exam (unless specifically authorized by an instructor)
• Using unauthorized materials, prepared answers, written notes, or concealed answers to complete an exam or project
• Copying from others during an exam

Plagiarism: using the intellectual material of another in your work without crediting the source.

• Passing off the ideas, concepts, or words of another person as your own
• Using the work of another in your academic work without properly giving them credit. This is known as citing the source. Properly citing the source means giving credit for every direct quote, summary, paraphrased idea, or any information that isn't considered common knowledge

Fabrication/Falsification: inventing or altering information to complete an academic exercise.

• Creating or modifying citations within a paper
• Making up dialogue, interactions, events, or people to complete an academic assignment

Complicity: aiding or attempting to aid another student to partake in academically dishonest acts.

• Letting another student use your identification to access a restricted area of campus
• Allowing another student to copy your project, exam, or homework

It's important to note that this is a general list that isn't intended to be restrictive or exhaustive. For a more list of actions that could potentially constitute academic misconduct, see your school's code of conduct.

Consequences

Administrators do see academic misconduct as a big deal. Consequently, the repercussions for failing to comply with rules that preserve integrity in college and university settings are harsh. Depending on the circumstances, students have been subject to sanctions that involve a failing course grade, being booted from a degree program, suspension, and even expulsion from an institution.

Illinois Academic Misconduct Advisor

A finding of responsibility for academic misconduct can jeopardize the academic and professional goals you or your college student have set. If you value the investment you've made into your education and your professional future, contacting a skilled student defense attorney is a must. Attorney Joseph D. Lento has helped students who've acquired serious academic misconduct charges recover from these allegations, and he can do the same for you. Contact him today for more information.

Illinois colleges and universities where Joseph D. Lento can help as your or your student's academic misconduct advisor during investigations, hearings, and appeals include, but are not limited to, the following schools:

• American Academy of Art
• American InterContinental University Online
• Argosy University Chicago
• Argosy University Schaumburg
• Augustana College
• Aurora University
• Benedictine University
• Black Hawk College
• Blackburn College
• Bradley University
• Carl Sandburg College
• Chamberlain College of Nursing Illinois
• Chicago State University
• Christian Life College
• City Colleges of Chicago Harold Washington College
• City Colleges of Chicago Harry S Truman College
• City Colleges of Chicago Kennedy King College
• City Colleges of Chicago Malcolm X College
• City Colleges of Chicago Olive Harvey College
• City Colleges of Chicago Richard J Daley College
• City Colleges of Chicago Wilbur Wright College
• College of DuPage
• College of Lake County
• Columbia College Chicago
• Concordia University Chicago
• Danville Area Community College
• DePaul University
• DeVry University Illinois
• Dominican University
• East West University
• Eastern Illinois University
• Elgin Community College
• Elmhurst College
• Eureka College
• Fox College Inc .
• Greenville College
• Harper College
• Harrington College of Design
• Heartland Community College
• Hebrew Theological College
• Highland Community College
• Illinois Central College
• Illinois College
• Illinois Eastern Community Colleges Frontier Community College
• Illinois Eastern Community Colleges Lincoln Trail College
• Illinois Eastern Community Colleges Olney Central College
• Illinois Eastern Community Colleges Wabash Valley College
• Illinois Institute of Technology
• Illinois State University
• Illinois Valley Community College
• Illinois Wesleyan University
• International Academy of Design and Technology Chicago
• ITT Technical Institute Mount Prospect
• ITT Technical Institute Oak Brook
• ITT Technical Institute Orland Park
• John A Logan College
• John Wood Community
• Joliet Junior College
• Judson University
• Kankakee Community College
• Kaskaskia College
• Kendall College
• Kishwaukee College
• Knox College
• Lake Forest College
• Lake Land College
• Le Cordon Bleu College of Culinary Arts Chicago
• Lewis and Clark Community College
• Lewis University
• Lexington College
• Lincoln Christian University
• Lincoln College
• Lincoln Land Community College
• Loyola University Chicago
• MacCormac College
• MacMurray College
• McHenry County College
• McKendree University
• Methodist College of Nursing
• Midstate College
• Millikin University
• Monmouth College
• Moody Bible Institute
• Moraine Valley Community College
• Morrison Institute of Technology
• Morton College
• National Louis University
• North Central College
• North Park University
• Northeastern Illinois University
• Northern Illinois University
• Northwestern College
• Northwestern College Southwestern Campus
• Northwestern University
• Oakton Community College
• Olivet Nazarene University
• Pacific College of Oriental Medicine Chicago
• Parkland College
• Prairie State College
• Quincy University
• Rend Lake College
• Richland Community College
• Robert Morris University Illinois
• Rock Valley College
• Rockford Career College
• Rockford College
• Roosevelt University
• Saint Augustine College
• Saint Xavier University
• Sanford Brown College Collinsville
• Sanford Brown College Hillside
• Sauk Valley Community College
• School of the Art Institute of Chicago
• Shawnee Community College
• Shimer College
• South Suburban College
• Southeastern Illinois College
• Southern Illinois University Carbondale
• Southern Illinois University Edwardsville
• Southwestern Illinois College
• Spoon River College
• Taylor Business Institute
• Telshe Yeshiva Chicago
• The Illinois Institute of Art Chicago
• The Illinois Institute of Art Schaumburg
• Trinity Christian College
• Trinity College of Nursing and Health Sciences
• Trinity International University
• Triton College
• University of Chicago
• University of Illinois at Chicago
• University of Illinois at Springfield
• University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign
• University of Phoenix Chicago Campus
• University of St Francis
• VanderCook College of Music
• Vatterott College Quincy
• Waubonsee Community College
• Western Illinois University
• Westwood College Chicago Loop
• Westwood College Dupage
• Westwood College O'Hare Airport
• Westwood College River Oaks
• Wheaton College

It is an unfortunate reality that academic misconduct charges can upend an accused student's life if not properly addressed, and Joseph D. Lento and the Lento Law Firm have unparalleled experience passionately fighting for the future of his clients at colleges and universities in Illinois and throughout the nation. He does not settle for the easiest outcome, and instead prioritizes his clients' needs and well-being. Joseph Lento is a licensed attorney in New Jersey and New York, is admitted as an attorney pro hac vice in state and federal court if needed when representing clients nationwide, and serves as an academic misconduct advisor for students facing disciplinary cases in Illinois and throughout the nation. Make certain your or your student's interests are protected - Contact National Academic Misconduct Advisor Joseph D. Lento today at 888-535-3686.