Randolph-Macon College is a community of scholars in which students and faculty work and study together for the intellectual enrichment of all. For such a community to thrive, it is essential that all of its members honor the principles of intellectual and academic integrity, for without these principles, scholarship is without merit and education is of questionable value. Academic integrity is a matter of exerting the most scrupulous care in acknowledging one’s scholarly debts, giving credit for every source of information, and being fully responsible for the independence and integrity of one’s own work. Academic integrity is an ethical commitment. Such a commitment is made in the knowledge that the existence of a community of scholars depends upon it and in the belief that scholarship is worthwhile in its own right. It is the hope of the college that the commitment will be lifelong.
The faculty and students of Randolph-Macon have agreed on a set of procedures designed to insure the vitality of the code and to handle violations of it in a fair, effective, and timely manner. It is the responsibility of every student to read, to understand, and to obey the code. The complete provisions of the code can be found on the college’s website.