ACADEMIC INTEGRITY

Principles and Guidelines of Academic Integrity

Policy 60: Academic Integrity is premised on the commitment of Toronto Metropolitan University to foster and uphold the highest standards of academic integrity, the fundamental values of which are honesty, trust, fairness respect, responsibility, courage1, as well as trustworthiness. These values are central to the development and sharing of knowledge. All members of the TMU community, including faculty, students, graduate assistants and staff, have a responsibility to adhere to and uphold them in their teaching, learning, evaluation, scholarly research and creative activity. This includes a responsibility to take action if they have reasonable grounds for thinking that academic misconduct has occurred. For more information on Academic Misconduct please visit the faculty section on the Academic Integrity Office Site as well as the Student Guide-Essential Policies.

Detecting Academic Misconduct

According to TMU Senate Policy 60: Academic Integrity, Section 2, academic misconduct is any behaviour that undermines the university’s ability to fairly evaluate students’ academic achievements or any behaviour that a student knew, or reasonably ought to have known, could gain them or others unearned academic advantage or benefit, counts as academic misconduct.