Academic Honor Code
William Woods University strives to protect its academic programs by ensuring honesty and integrity by all students in their academic pursuits. Students seeking a quality education are called to act in an academically honorable manner. To do so compels them to engage in certain behaviors and reject others. Being honorable involves behaving ethically and making moral choices consistent with an individual’s conscience. William Woods University depends on the personal integrity of each member of our community to help create and foster an environment that celebrates and embraces acting for the greater good of society. Students’ work and conduct should reflect their decision to act honorably. When students engage in academically dishonest or dishonorable behavior, they diminish the quality of the education they receive, distort the results of assignments, and negatively affect the reputation of their classmates and the University as a whole. When students are found to have engaged in an academically dishonest or dishonorable manner by a faculty member, fellow student, or staff member, they will face repercussions. All instances of academically dishonest behavior will be dealt with per the Academic Integrity Policy and recorded by the University in the student’s record. To this end, it is incumbent on each student to act in an honorable manner about his or her education at William Woods University.