Academic Integrity
Academic Support Services is responsible for administering the College's policy on Academic Integrity. All students need to familiarize themselves with the policy on Academic Integrity.
The College considers academic integrity one of the foundation stones of a liberal arts education and asks all students to use good sense and judgment in preparing and submitting material for examination and evaluation. Particularly at mid-semester and semester's end, under work and deadline pressure, students may make false assumptions or uninformed decisions that could lead to a charge of academic dishonesty.
Look at all your course syllabi carefully. Understand that you will sign an Agreement about the ethical use of the computer. This is very, very serious: if you present someone else's intellectual property as your own, that is stealing.
Ask questions of your professors: How much collaboration is permissible? How do I cite this kind of material: Do you allow students to use references found on the World Wide Web?
Each student's Juniata College degree is diminished by cheating. Don't do it. Please realize that cases of confirmed academic dishonesty could ruin hopes of a career in medicine, education, social work, or law enforcement.
Cases of suspected academic dishonesty are referred to this office for confirmation and resolution and, when necessary, a hearing panel of the Academic Judicial Board will be convened to determine if there has been a violation of the policy.