The Honor System
Academic integrity at Mercer University is maintained through the Honor System. The Honor System imposes on each student the responsisbility for his or her own honest deportment and assumes the corollary responsibility that each student will report any violations of the honor code about which he or she has information.
Academic Honesty
Mutual trust is a basic component of any community. Mercer University expects students, as members of the academic community, to take seriously their positions in that community. Students are expected to ensure the continuance of trust among themselves and between them and the faculty by accepting responsibility for their own work. The University considers breaches of this trust and responsibility to be serious offenses.
Academic offenses include the taking of credit for or unfair use of work that has been done by another person. This includes plagiarism, cheating, and other acts of dishonesty in academic areas.
Plagiarism is defined as the use of ideas, facts, phrases, quotations, reproductions, or additional information, such as charts or maps, from any source without giving proper credit to the original author. Failure to reference any such material used is both ethically and legally improper.
Cheating includes the use of textbooks, notes, or other reference materials on a test, daily quiz, or other examination when not specifically permitted by the professor; copying ideas or facts from another student's paper during a test, quiz or other examination; giving or receiving ideas orally or in writing during a test, quiz or other examination; obtaining test questions that the professor has not released for reference prior to the test; and obtaining or giving specific information that appears on a test before the test is administered.
For additional information on the Honor System process, including how to report a violation, see the following links:
Any infraction of the Statement of Ethics, the Mercer University Honor Code, and/or the Georgia Professional Code of Ethics may result in dismissal from Mercer University’s Professional Education Program in the Tift College of Education.
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