For such a community to thrive it is essential that all of its members honor the principles of intellectual and academic integrity, for without these principles scholarship is without merit and education of questionable value. Academic integrity is a matter of exerting the most scrupulous care in acknowledging one's scholarly debts, in giving credit for every source of information, in being fully responsible for the independence and integrity of one's own work.
Academic integrity is an ethical commitment.
Such a commitment is made in the knowledge that the existence of a community of scholars depends upon it and in the belief that scholarship is worthwhile in its own right. It is the hope of the College that the commitment will be lifelong. It is in the interest of every member of the Randolph-Macon community to see that the tradition of academic integrity is honored. As a member of the student body of Randolph-Macon College, I guarantee to my fellow students, the faculty and the administration that I have read and that I will uphold the principles of the Code of Academic Integrity in all its articles during my residency and will make every effort to discourage violations by others.