Academic Honesty

The university recognizes honesty and integrity as being necessary to its academic function. The following regulations protect the equity and validity of the university's grades and degrees, and help students develop standards and attitudes appropriate to academic life.

1. No student will receive assistance not authorized by the instructor in preparing any assignment, essay, laboratory report or examination to be submitted as a requirement for an academic course.
2. No student will knowingly give unauthorized assistance to another person in the preparation of any assignment, essay, laboratory report or examination to be submitted as a requirement for an academic course.
3. No person will sell, give, lend or otherwise furnish to any unauthorized person material that can be shown to contain the questions or answers to any examination scheduled to be given at any subsequent date, in any course of study offered by the university excluding questions and answers from tests previously administered and authorized for release by the administering faculty member.
4. Plagiarism is prohibited. Themes, essays, term papers, tests and other similar requirements must be the work of the student submitting it. When direct quotations are used, they must be indicated, and when the ideas of another are incorporated in the paper, they must be appropriately acknowledged.
5. Fraudulent research activity is prohibited. Misrepresentation of data collection and analysis, including falsification, fabrication or omission of data is prohibited.
6. Any person taking, or attempting to take, steal or otherwise procure in any unauthorized manner any material or information pertaining to the conduct of a class including tests, examinations, laboratory equipment, roll books, etc., violates this regulation.

Schools handle disciplinary actions according to their individual honor codes. Copies of the honor codes may be obtained from:

School of Allied Health -- No honor code different than the institutional policy.

School of Dentistry -- Associate Dean for Student Admissions and Alumni, School of Dentistry, room 1106, (706) 721-2813. Student Conduct Code. (30 page PDF file)

School of Graduate Studies -- No honor code different than the institutional policy.

School of Medicine -- Associate Dean for Student Affairs, CB1803. School of Medicine Honor System.

School of Nursing -- No honor code different than the institutional policy.