Idahosa v. Farmingdale State College

In April 2010, the petitioner, a student at Farmingdale State College (hereinafter the College), was pursuing an associate’s degree in nursing. As part of a nursing seminar class, which included an ethics component, the petitioner was required to *581submit a position paper, which constituted 25% of his grade. After the petitioner submitted his paper, his professor determined that it had been plagiarized from another student at the College who had submitted the same paper the previous spring. Disciplinary proceedings were instituted, which resulted in the petitioner’s dismissal from the College’s…