The University should endeavor to provide for students those privileges, opportunities, and protections which best promote the learning process in all its aspects. The following statement outlines those academic rights and responsibilities of students essential in helping the University community fulfill this responsibility. The principles found herein are designed to facilitate communication, foster academic integrity, and defend freedoms of inquiry, discussion, and expression among members of the University community. Such principles should safeguard and enhance conditions conducive to learning, and will serve as a guide for students, faculty, and administrators involved in programs of instruction and classroom activities. Students should not be refused access to any course of study on the grounds of their beliefs or the possible uses to which they may put the knowledge to be gained in a course.
Students are responsible for representing themselves truthfully and accurately at all times.
Providing false or misleading information to gain admission to or advancement in a program or course of study violates this responsibility and may result in forfeiture of one's right to access to an academic program. The University should endeavor to provide a learning environment where honest academic conduct is fostered and where even handed treatment in all aspects of the teacher-student relationship exists. The following principles will facilitate such an environment. Students should enjoy free inquiry and expression. They should be free to take reasoned exception to the data and views offered in a course and to reserve judgment about matters of opinion.