For more information about Academic Integrity, please contact:
Jen Day Shaw
Dean of Students
(336) 334-5514
jdshaw@uncg.edu
PHILOSOPHY
Academic integrity is founded upon and encompasses the following five values: honesty, trust, fairness, respect, and responsibility. Supporting and affirming these values is essential to promoting and maintaining a high level of academic integrity.1 Each member of the academic community must stand accountable for his or her actions. As a result, a community develops in which students learn the responsibilities of citizenship and how to contribute honorably to their professions.
If knowledge is to be gained and properly evaluated, it must be pursued under conditions free from dishonesty. Deceit and misrepresentations are incompatible with the fundamental activity of this academic institution and shall not be tolerated. Members of the UNCG community are expected to foster in their own work the spirit of academic honesty and not to tolerate its abuse by others.
Responsibility for academic integrity lies primarily with individual students and faculty members of this community. A violation of academic integrity is an act harmful to all students, faculty and, ultimately, the University.
[1] The Center for Academic Integrity (1998). Fundamental principles of academic integrity.
AUTHORITY
- The Academic Integrity Policy is one of three formal processes governing student conduct at UNCG. The Academic Integrity Policy governs student conduct directly related to the academic life of the institution and is in effect during all phases of a student's academic career. The Policy is applicable to any academically related experience involving UNCG students whether on or off the campus. All alleged violations of the Policy must be resolved in accordance with this Policy and under the direct authority of a UNCG faculty member or the Dean of Students Office as detailed in the Policy. The Dean of Students Office will be responsible for advising the Dean of the Graduate School of all cases and resolutions involving UNCG graduate students.
- The Student Code of Conduct addresses general student conduct, usually excluding academic responsibilities. The Student Code of Conduct details the due process and hearing requirements for student conduct proceedings; it does not duplicate or contravene the purposes of the Academic Integrity Policy nor of other graduate or professional proceedings related to schools, departments or professions.
- Graduate or professional schools within the University may initiate charges against students for alleged violations of professional standards or ethics as a separate issue or as an extension of alleged acts of academic dishonesty or violations of the Student Code of Conduct. Double jeopardy is not involved since the student is accountable to separate jurisdictions - institutional standards of academic dishonesty, general conduct and/or the ethical standards of the particular profession. In resolving cases of alleged violations of professional standards or ethics, the schools and departments are responsible for devising procedures appropriate to their programs and for provision of due process for all students. The University Counsel can provide guidance in such practices.2 The Dean of the Graduate School will be responsible for advising the Dean of Students Office of all such cases and resolutions involving UNCG graduate students where those cases may also involve academic integrity issues.
[2] Information in this section was adapted from language used in Gehring, D. and Pavela, G. (1986) Issues and Perspectives on Academic Integrity, second edition, Washington: National Association of Student Personnel Administrators.