Academic Integrity
Academic integrity is the pursuit of scholarly activity free from fraud and deception. The environment that supports academic integrity requires everyone to be engaged in appropriate behavior and, ultimately, to be a leader.
Academic integrity demands:
1. Discerning the difference between right and wrong.
2. Behaving in a manner consistent with high moral values.
3. Speaking out when you see others act without academic integrity.
Why is academic integrity important? It is important because in a knowledge-based society, the information and knowledge we use daily loses all meaning and value without it. If we cannot trust information, it has no value.
Academic integrity is essential for remaining in the Schreyer Honors College. It is defined by the University Faculty Senate (Senate Policy 49-20) as:
The pursuit of scholarly activity in an open, honest and responsible manner. Academic integrity is a basic guiding principle for all academic activity at The Pennsylvania State University, and all members of the University community are expected to act in accordance with this principle. Consistent with this expectation, the University's Code of Conduct states that all students should act with personal integrity; respect other students' dignity, rights and property; and help create and maintain an environment in which all can succeed through the fruits of their efforts. Academic integrity includes a commitment not to engage in or tolerate acts of falsification, misrepresentation, or deception. Such acts of dishonesty violate the fundamental ethical principles of the University community and compromise the worth of work completed by others.
SHC Sanction for Acts of Academic Dishonesty
Any member of the Schreyer Honors College who either is found to have committed an act of academic dishonesty by an academic college academic integrity committee or who did not contest accusations of academic dishonesty made by an academic college and waived in writing a review or hearing within the academic college may be subject to immediate dismissal from the Schreyer Honors College.
Students who are dismissed will have their AES scholarship revoked and all Schreyer Honors College notations removed from their transcript.
The Schreyer Honors College may revoke an honors medal and the honors diploma if a graduate is later found to have committed an act of academic dishonesty while enrolled in the Schreyer Honors College.
