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All violations of the Academic Honor Principle are prohibited.
Any instance of academic dishonesty is considered a violation of the Academic Honor Principle.
Affected Parties
All students in the AB, BE, MS, MA, MALS, MHCDS, MEM, MEng, MPH, and PhD degree programs. For MD students, see the Geisel website ; for MBA students, see the Tuck website .
On February 13, 1962, the Dartmouth College Faculty passed unanimously the following resolution; the text was updated by Faculty vote on May 17, 1999: Whereas, on February 1, 1962, a majority vote of the student body adopted the principle that "all academic activities will be based on student honor" and thereby accepted the responsibility, individually and collectively, to maintain and perpetuate the principle of academic honor. Therefore be it resolved that,
The faculty, administration, and students of Dartmouth College recognize the Academic Honor Principle as fundamental to the education process. Any instance of academic dishonesty is considered a violation of the Academic Honor Principle.
Fundamental to the principle of independent learning are the requirements of honesty and integrity in the performance of academic assignments, both in and out of the classroom. Dartmouth operates on the principle of academic honor, without proctoring of examinations. Any student who submits work which is not his or her own, or commits other acts of academic dishonesty, violates the purposes of the college and is subject to disciplinary actions, up to and including suspension or separation.
The Academic Honor Principle depends on the willingness of students, individually and collectively, to maintain and perpetuate standards of academic honesty. Each Dartmouth student accepts the responsibility to be honorable in the student's own academic affairs, as well as to support the Principle as it applies to others.
Any student who becomes aware of a violation of the Academic Honor Principle is bound by honor to report the violation to an appropriate authority, such as an instructor, department or program chair, academic dean, or the Office of Community Standards & Accountability. If Dartmouth students stand by and do nothing, both the spirit and operation of the Academic Honor Principle are severely threatened.
A number of actions are specifically prohibited by the Academic Honor Principle. These focus on plagiarism and on academic dishonesty in the taking of examinations, the writing of papers, the use of the same work in more than one course, and unauthorized collaboration.
This list of examples covers the more common violations but is not intended to be exhaustive.
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