Academic integrity must be fully integrated into the campus academic environment, including norms for student life and classroom expectations. Integration is best accomplished when faculty and students understand and accept standards of academic behavior, and when the standards are fairly and uniformly enforced. The faculty's authority over the classroom and grades includes the primary charge to communicate principles of academic integrity and the consequences of academic misconduct. Expectations should be clear and the classroom should be managed to support them. Faculty members need to know the following enforcement system and are obligated to use it when academic dishonesty occurs.
Enforcement supports honest students and promotes our commitment to academic integrity.
Students must not cheat or plagiarize, and they must not condone these behaviors or assist others who cheat or plagiarize. Academic misconduct not only jeopardizes the career of the individual student involved, but it also undermines the scholastic achievements of all students and attacks the mission of this institution. Students are inherently responsible to do their own work, thereby insuring the integrity of their academic records. Administrators shall disseminate this policy through publications and presentations to all students and faculty. Administrators must promote uniform interpretation and enforcement of this policy, and shall regularly report summarized data to the campus community concerning instances and outcomes of academic misconduct.