Academic Integrity

Academic dishonesty includes cheating, plagiarism, or failing to appropriately cite sources. Any form of academic dishonesty is wholly incompatible with the Coker University Student Covenant, the Mission of the University, and generally understood standards of ethical academic behavior.

Intellectual honesty and integrity are the cornerstones of Coker University’s educational mission. Student academic work is expected to represent unquestionably the student’s own thoughts and words. Students must thoroughly and appropriately acknowledge sources for words or ideas that have been generated by others. It is each student’s responsibility to be familiar with appropriate citation techniques and to acknowledge the intellectual and creative contributions of others in all academic work done at the university.

The instructor determines penalties for dealing with breaches of academic integrity in the syllabus for each course.

All instances of academic dishonesty will be reported to the Provost’s Office. If two substantive instances of academic dishonesty are reported for the same student, the student will be removed from the graduate program and may not enroll in other graduate programs at Coker University. Students who feel they have been unfairly removed from a graduate program can appeal the decision to the Provost and Dean of Faculty.