PROBITY (ETHICS) OF STUDENT
Upon enrollment to Virginia Christian University, each student shall have the responsibility and obligation to exhibit honesty and integrity at all times in the pursuit of a professional education while holding a respect for the ethical standards of VACU. A student in violation of any of the following shall be subject to redress.- Presentation of the ideas, representations, or words of others as one’s own.
- Permitting another to present one’s work without the customary and proper acknowledgment of the sources.
- Referral to or use of unauthorized materials, sources, or devices during an academic session. Examples include, but are not limited to:
- Books, manuals, written materials, Internet materials, etc.
- Falsification of academic and clinical records, educational degrees, titles, job positions, etc.
- Inappropriate comments to patients, faculty, staff, other students, etc.
- Providing or accepting unauthorized assistance during an examination. Examples include, but are not limited to:
- Looking or viewing at other students’ exam answers.
- Talking to another student or assisting another student with exam answers.
- Making or receiving gestures from another student to benefit on an exam.
- Possession, purchase, sale or use of a copy of any materials intended as an instrument of evaluation (test or exam), in advance of its administration by the faculty.
- Practice of any form of deceit on any academic exam setting which includes acting as, or enlisting, a substitute.
- Dependence on the aid of others, or providing such aid in a manner prohibited by the faculty, in the research, preparation, creation, written performance, and/or publication of work submitted for academic credit/evaluation.
- Attempts to change one’s academic record by accessing the VACU computers or breaking into offices for reasons not in keeping with academic probity.
- Disruptive activities which infringe upon the rights of other individuals, or the rights of the faculty member, during classes, clinic periods or examinations.
- Making verbal or written threats, or any act of physical abuse towards students, faculty, or staff or the university. A violation of this requirement will result in immediate suspension while review of the incident is in process.
- Willful violation or abuse of the cannons of ethics at VACU.