All students
are covered by a policy that prohibits dishonesty in academic work. The
Academic Integrity Policy (AIP) covers all students who entered
Trinity before the fall of 2004. The
Academic Honor Code covers all those who entered the fall of 2004
or later.
The Integrity Policy and the Code share many features: each asserts that the academic community is
based on honesty and trust; each contains the same violations; each
provides for a procedure to determine if a violation has occurred
and what the punishment will be; each provides for an appeal process.
The main difference is that the faculty implements
the AIP while the Code is implemented by the Academic Honor Council. Under the Integrity Policy, the faculty member
determines whether a violation has occurred as well as the punishment
for the violation (if any) within certain guidelines. Under the Code,
a faculty member will (or a student may) report an alleged violation
to the Academic Honor Council. It
is the task of the Council to investigate, adjudicate, and assign
a punishment within certain guidelines if a violation has been verified.
Students who are under the Honor Code are required
to pledge all written work that is submitted for a grade: “On
my honor, I have neither given nor received any unauthorized assistance
on this work” and their signature. The
pledge may be abbreviated “pledged” with a signature.
