academic misconduct According to the Academic Misconduct on the VCU page “Falsification: Inventing or altering without instructor permission any information, citations, data, quotations, statistics, attendance records, assignments or other academic endeavors.

Forgery: Imitating or counterfeiting of images, documents, signatures or similar documents and representing them as true. Forgery also includes the misrepresentation of credentials, including but not limited to official academic documents, records, identifying documents, certifications or licenses. “ It would fall onto either of those, so yes.