Honor Code

St Katherine College is committed to creating an academic community that values both individual and collaborative efforts that promote learning and discovery. Such a community expects honesty and integrity in the work of all its members.

Academic integrity and honesty are basic core values of St Katherine College. In carrying out its academic mission, St Katherine College, like all higher education institutions, depends on the honesty and integrity of its faculty, staff, and students, and for this reason every member of the St Katherine College community is charged with upholding the Academic Honor Code. Actions that breach the Code erode the trust of those who look to universities for honest evaluations of academic work arrived at through honest processes.

Students, faculty, and staff are expected to follow established standards of academic integrity and honesty. Academic misconduct entails dishonesty or deception in fulfilling academic requirements and includes but is not limited to cheating, plagiarism, or the furnishing of false information to the College or a College affiliate in matters related to academics. An affiliate of the College is any person, organization, or company who works in conjunction with St Katherine College for the purposes of assisting students in fulfilling their academic requirements. It is therefore this institution’s stated policy that no form of dishonesty among its faculty or students will be tolerated. Although all members of the College community have an obligation to report occurrences of dishonesty, each individual is principally responsible for his or her own conduct.

In adopting this Academic Honor Code, students of St Katherine College recognize that academic honesty and integrity are fundamental values of the University community. The quality of a St Katherine College education is dependent upon the community acceptance and enforcement of the Academic Honor Code. Students who enroll at St Katherine College commit to holding themselves and their peers to the highest standard of academic integrity. An individual who becomes aware of a violation of the Academic Honor Code has an obligation to report this violation. The following pledge is required on all academic work submitted by students at St Katherine College:

I have neither given nor received unauthorized aid in completing this work, nor have I presented someone else’s work as my own.