The phrase "academic impropriety" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to refer to unethical behavior or misconduct in an academic setting, such as plagiarism or cheating.
Example: "The university has strict policies in place to address any instances of academic impropriety among its students."
Alternatives: "academic misconduct" or "scholarly dishonesty".
Syracuse is currently serving a self-imposed postseason ban for its own academic improprieties.
1. TOP GRADES AND NO CLASS TIME FOR AUBURN PLAYERS -- Big-time football and possible academic improprieties.
"The violations in the present matter once again included impermissible participation, academic improprieties and lack of institutional control," the committee wrote.
Beyond Texas Southern's use of ineligible athletes, the N.C.A.A. also cited academic improprieties, exceeding scholarship limits and a booster's being involved in recruiting.
When Bensel-Meyers was a professor at Tennessee in the late 1990's, she charged the university's football team with serious academic improprieties.
Calipari has another star-studded freshman class next fall, along with the possibility of more trouble with the N.C.A.A., which is investigating alleged high school academic improprieties involving Cousins's former Kentucky teammate, guard Eric Bledsoe.
Big-time college football programs may have been linked recently to scandals involving illicit payments to players (Ohio State), academic improprieties (North Carolina) and child sexual abuse (Penn State), but that has not slowed a rush to join the fraternity.
Clarett said his troubles at Ohio State, where he was suspended for his entire sophomore season for National Collegiate Athletic Association rules violations and was investigated and cleared of academic improprieties, made this the right choice for him.
A sports article on Monday about accusations of academic improprieties involving an Ohio State football player, Maurice Clarett, referred incorrectly in some copies to an Ohio newspaper that reported a meeting between him and N.C.A.A. officials.
Although athletes benefitted from academic improprieties at the university in Smith's final years as a coach, no signs were found of his involvement in the scheme.
