Each of these is a matter of individual effort and discipline. However, an educational community can create an environment in which these attributes may be cultivated and allowed to flourish. Central to this environment is an awareness and an affirmation of the basic fact that every student's pharmacy education is the product of his or her own intellectual effort. Therefore, every student who enrolls and remains at the University of Minnesota College of Pharmacy understands that to submit work that is not his or her own or to default on clinical obligations violates the purpose and spirit of pharmacy education. When presented with an allegation that there has been a violation of The Code, the Academic Standing Committee carefully considers all relevant factors, using procedural due process as a guide to its action.
Strict confidentiality is observed.
The administration is in no way involved in the evaluation of a case. It is to be understood that intellectual responsibility is internal and that the standards delineated in this statement may or may not be those of the individual. However, the precepts of a community must be respected by all members of that community. The statement is planned as a broad outline of standards within which each student is expected to exercise her or his own judgment, the essence of any affirmative statement being each student's pledge that she or he will uphold that statement's principles. Each student recognizes that academic misconduct is unacceptable behavior for students in a professional school and is a violation of The Code.