Academic Integrity and Your Syllabus
Senate Policy 43-00 (Syllabus) requires instructors to provide a statement on Academic Integrity within a syllabus. While there is no official recommended University statement, the College of the Liberal Arts provides this statement as a suggestion:
"Penn State defines academic integrity as the pursuit of scholarly activity in an open, honest and responsible manner. 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 (Faculty Senate Policy 49-20). Dishonesty of any kind will not be tolerated in this course. Dishonesty includes, but is not limited to, cheating, plagiarizing, fabricating information or citations, facilitating acts of academic dishonesty by others, having unauthorized possession of examinations, submitting work of another person or work previously used without informing the instructor, or tampering with the academic work of other students. Students who are found to be dishonest will receive academic sanctions and will be reported to the University’s Judicial Affairs office for possible further disciplinary sanction.”
Additional tips for preparing your syllabus are available from the College of the Liberal Arts at http://www.la.psu.edu/facstaff/syllabus.htm and Teaching and Learning with Technology at http://tlt.psu.edu/suggestions/syllabus/.