Academic honesty is fundamental to the activities and principles of a university.
All members of an academic community must be confident that each person's work has been responsibly and honorably acquired, developed, and presented. If some students obtain course grades by dishonest means, the value of the college experience and the college degree itself diminishes. The academic community regards cheating as an extremely serious matter, then, and deals severely with those who violate the codes of behavior of academic integrity. This brochure was designed to help you realize and avoid the behaviors that would be judged academically dishonest at Northwest. You should be aware, however, that various instructors may set even more rigorous standards or expect different standards for your ethical behavior in all your pre-professional work, for your researched and written work, or for you reports and projects.