Wingate University School of Pharmacy
Code of Professional and Academic Conduct ……………….
Virtually all professional schools and colleges have instituted codes of
professional and academic conduct. The Code of Professional and Academic Conduct
is descriptive of acceptable and unacceptable conduct. The Code is designed
expressly for the School of Pharmacy and is compatible with all regulations and
policies of the University. This section complements the previous section
detailing the expectations of the pharmacist and pharmacist-in-training.
Personal Conduct
Academic Conduct
Reporting Violations of the Code
Drug Use Policy
Academic Conduct.
All students matriculating
into the School of Pharmacy implicitly and personally subscribe to the Code of
Professional and Academic Conduct in accepting admission. Each student is
responsible for his/her own integrity, and is likewise responsible for reporting
possible violation of the Code by others. The faculty shall take all reasonable
steps to prevent violations of the Code of Professional and Academic Conduct,
and each faculty member likewise is responsible for reporting possible
violations.
The
following are examples of conduct for which disciplinary action may be taken.
These are merely examples and are not to be considered all-inclusive.
·
Dishonesty which includes, but
is not limited to, gaining unauthorized access to an examination or to obtain
unfair advantage, using unauthorized sources of information during an
examination, assisting a fellow student in committing an act of cheating,
collaborating on assignments without explicit permission of the instructor,
entering an office or building to obtain unfair advantage, taking an examination
for another candidate, or altering grade reports.
·
Plagiarism,
which is using, stating, offering, or reporting as one’s own, an idea,
expression, or product of another without the proper credit to its source. As
defined by Webster, plagiarism is “an act or instance of stealing or passing off
the ideas or words of another as one’s own, using a created production without
crediting the source, or presenting as new and original an idea or product
derived from an existing source.” (Webster’s Collegiate Dictionary). A
direct quote should be cited and placed in quotation marks. However, the student
should also know that if the ideas of others are used, these must be referenced
or the student is guilty of an act of plagiarism.
·
A student who
witnesses any of the above or who is approached with an offer to gain unfair
advantage is obligated by the Code of Professional and Academic Conduct to
report that violation to the appropriate authority. Failure to do so may result
in disciplinary action.
It
is the policy of the School that acts of plagiarism or any other acts of
academic dishonesty, on any assignment, quiz, or examination, will result in a
course grade of zero (0) and other sanctions. The failing grade and incident of
cheating will be reported to the Assistant Dean for Assessment for possible
additional sanctions. The process for the disposition of allegations of academic
misconduct is delineated below.
