In keeping with its mission, Creighton University seeks to prepare its students to be knowledgeable, forthright and honest. It expects and requires academic honesty from all members of the university community. Academic honesty includes adherence to guidelines established by the university, its colleges and schools and their faculties, its libraries, and the unauthorized collaboration or use of external information during examinations; plagiarizing or representing another’s ideas as one’s own; furnishing false academic information to the university; falsely obtaining, distributing, using or receiving test materials; falsifying academic records, falsifying clinical reports or otherwise endangering the well-being of patients involved in the teaching process; misusing academic resources; defacing or tampering with library materials; obtaining or gaining unauthorized access to examinations or academic research material; soliciting or offering unauthorized academic information or materials; improperly altering or inducing another to improperly alter any academic record; or engaging in any conduct that is intended or reasonably likely to confer upon one’s self or another an unfair advantage or unfair benefit respecting an academic matter. Students alleged to have engaged in the above behaviors will be subject to reporting to the Associate Dean for Student Affairs and will be subject to the policies and procedures designated for allegations of unprofessional behavior.
See: STUDENT HANDBOOK
