11.10 Honor Code and Fundamental Standard

Applicable To: Undergraduate Students, Coterminal Students, Graduate Students, Business Students, Law Students, Medicine Students, Non-matriculated Students

Authority: Dean of Students (Policy), Office of Community Standards (Implementation)

Summary

Student life at Stanford is governed by the Honor Code and the Fundamental Standard. More information on these policies is available from the Office of Community

Policy Statement

Honor Code

The Honor Code is an undertaking of the Stanford academic community, individually and collectively. Its purpose is to uphold a culture of academic honesty.

Students will support this culture of academic honesty by neither giving nor accepting unpermitted academic aid in any work that serves as a component of grading or evaluation, including assignments, examinations, and research.

Instructors will support this culture of academic honesty by providing clear guidance, both in their course syllabi and in response to student questions, on what constitutes permitted and unpermitted aid. Instructors will also not take unusual or unreasonable precautions to prevent academic dishonesty.

Students and instructors will also cultivate an environment conducive to academic integrity. While instructors alone set academic requirements, the Honor Code is a community undertaking that requires students and instructors to work together to ensure conditions that support academic integrity.

Fundamental Standard

Students at Stanford are expected to show both within and without the University such respect for order, morality, personal honor and the rights of others as is demanded of good citizens. Failure to do this will be sufficient cause for removal from the University.

Contact

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