For more information about Academic Integrity, please contact:
Jen Day Shaw
Dean of Students
(336) 334-5514
jdshaw@uncg.edu
Encouraging the Practice of Academic Integrity
Student Obligations
- Students should recognize their responsibility to uphold the Academic Integrity Policy and to report apparent violations to the appropriate persons. Students who do not understand the policy or its application to a particular
- Each student is required to sign the Academic Integrity Pledge given below on all major work submitted to an instructor. A student's work need not be graded until he/she has signed the statement.
Exceptions to the requirement of signing the statement may be specified by appropriate persons or offices, as, for example, on theses and dissertations. In the absence of such exceptions, students who do not sign the pledge may be assumed to have violated the Academic Integrity Policy. In signing the pledge, the student indicates his/her knowledge that the Academic Integrity Policy governs his/her academic activities at the University.
Academic Integrity Pledge
I HAVE ABIDED BY THE UNCG Academic Integrity Policy ON THIS ASSIGNMENT.
Student's Signature ____________ Date ______
Students should recognize their responsibility to uphold the Academic Integrity Policy and to report apparent violations to the appropriate persons. Students who do not understand the Policy or its application to a particular assignment are responsible for raising such questions with their faculty member.
During the orientation period for new students, each student is asked to sign the following statement affirming his/her understanding and acceptance of the principles of the Academic Integrity Policy:
My words and actions will reflect Academic Integrity. I will not cheat or lie or steal in academic matters. I will promote integrity in the UNCG community.
Student's Signature ____________ Date ______
Each student
is required
to sign the
Academic Integrity
Pledge given
below on all
major work
submitted
to an instructor.
A student's
work need
not be graded
until he/she
has signed
the statement.
Exceptions to the requirement of signing the statement may be specified by appropriate persons or offices, as, for example, on theses and dissertations. In the absence of such exceptions, students who do not sign the pledge may be assumed to have violated the Academic Integrity Policy. In signing the pledge, the student indicates his/her knowledge that the Academic Integrity Policy governs his/her academic activities at the University.
Faculty Obligations
Faculty members are expected to become familiar with the Academic Integrity Policy and to take the lead in discussing the meaning of academic integrity with all students. Early in their courses, they shall state clearly course requirements and expectations including examination procedures and grading rationale as they relate to the Academic Integrity Policy. Faculty must inform students of the requirement to submit signed copies of the Academic Integrity Pledge for all major written assignments. Most importantly, faculty members must recognize their responsibility to exemplify the values of academic integrity in their own conduct and to convey by example as well as precept their expectation that the Policy shall be followed in all University activities in which they have a part.
Guidelines for Academic Work and Examinations
- Early in the course the instructor should make special efforts to explain to the class what constitutes plagiarism. Examples of acceptable and unacceptable style for acknowledging source material should be presented.
- Faculty should relate to students specific instances where the Policy may apply in a class assignment; for example, the prohibition against cheating as applied to out of class assignments or the place for group versus individual work. Such information is especially important to students early in their academic experience as entering freshmen.
- Prior to examinations, the instructor should do whatever possible to arrange room conditions for examinations so as to reduce temptations to violate academic integrity. Such conditions may include arranging for as widely spaced seating as possible, preferably using alternate rows, and the use of "scrambled" versions of multiple choice type tests.
- The instructor should elect to remain in the classroom during the administration of an examination or provide for other qualified proctoring of the examination.
- Large classes pose special problems in administration of examinations. If sufficient space is not available to allow for proper examination conditions, it may be desirable to arrange to administer the examination during the evening hours (with the consent of the class) when sufficient rooms for spreading out the class are available.