Academic Policies & Information
Academic Honesty Policy
As members of a scholarly community dedicated to healthy intellectual development, students and faculty at Edgewood University are expected to share the responsibility for maintaining high standards of honesty and integrity in their academic work.
Each student should reflect this sense of responsibility toward the community by submitting work that is a product of their own effort in a particular course, unless the instructor has directed otherwise. In order to clarify and emphasize its standards for academic honesty, the University has adopted this policy.
The following are examples of violations of standards for academic honesty and are subject to sanctions:
Cheating on exams; submitting collaborative work as one’s own; falsifying records, achievements, field or laboratory data or other coursework.
Stealing examination or course materials.
Submitting work previously submitted in another course, unless specifically approved by the present instructor.
Falsifying documents or signing an instructor or administrator’s name to a document or form.
Plagiarism.
Aiding another student in any of the above actions.
Plagiarism, which is defined as the deliberate use of another’s ideas or words as if they were one’s own, can take many forms, from the egregious to the mild. Instances most commonly seen in written work by students in order from most to least serious are:
Borrowing, buying or stealing a paper from elsewhere, lending or selling a paper for another’s use as their own; using printed material written by someone else as one’s own.
Getting so much help on a paper from someone else, including a university tutor, that the student writer can no longer legitimately claim authorship.
Intentionally using source material improperly, e.g., neither citing nor using quotation marks on borrowed material; supplying an in-text citation but failing to enclose quoted material within quotation marks; leaving paraphrased material too close to the original version; failing to append a works-cited page when sources have been used.
Unintentional misuse of borrowed material through ignorance or carelessness.
Violations of academic honesty are reported to the Dean of Students Office. Sanctions recommended for academic dishonesty can include an “F” on the assignment and/or an “F” in the course. The Dean of Students Office will determine other sanctions when appropriate.
United States Copyright Law
Copyright is a form of protection provided by the laws of the United States (Title 17 U.S. Code to the creators of “original works of authorship.”) This includes literary, dramatic, musical, graphic, sculptural, audiovisual, and software creations. Therefore, the unauthorized copying of copyrighted materials is in violation of U.S. copyright law and is not permitted at Edgewood University.