It is your obligation as a student to learn what your professors and your fellow students expect of you here at Creighton.
But the College can at least help by reminding you of this important responsibility from time to time. That’s why the Student Senate drafted an Integrity Code in 2003 and asked the College to endorse it, promote its use by the faculty, and include it as the final section of this publication.
The Code exists to remind you of your responsibilities …
· to work as hard as you can,
· to learn as much as you can, and always
· to ensure that the work you submit is your own (or that those portions of it that have been based on outside sources are appropriately acknowledged).
It also reinforces the important lesson that these responsibilities never take a break.
After you graduate from Creighton and begin to make your way in the “real world,” it’s likely that no one will remind you of the importance of integrity.
But your years here on the Hilltop should have given you such a foundation in personal integrity that you will in turn enhance the integrity of every community you join for the rest of your life.
This Code calls for your signature on papers, quizzes, and tests. Each time you sign your name, you are attesting that the work you hand in is your own.
When you sign on the dotted line, you do so in front of the College faculty, but even more so, in front of your fellow students and the thousands of alumni and alumnae who preceded you at Creighton.
The students and faculty of the Creighton College of Arts and Sciences comprise an academic community established within the framework of Jesuit ideals and firmly rooted in the concept of integrity.
In an effort to instill integrity in those attending this College and to reaffirm its significance along each student’s academic journey, the College has set in place an Integrity Pledge. Your instructors will from time to time present the Pledge for your signature on tests and quizzes and ask you to include it with your signature on writing assignments you submit.
The Pledge promotes a shared culture of integrity amongst Creighton students, while also acknowledging in its language that each of us holds him- or herself accountable for any attenuation or neglect of the conventions that define academic integrity.
The intent of this Pledge is not to act heavy-handedly. The College's students and faculty strongly believe that each student intends to present his or her own original work. But the Pledge serves as a regular reminder of Creighton University’s commitment to the very highest standards of integrity—not only academic but also personal integrity.
The Pledge reads as follows:
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