Academic Integrity

Alexander College is committed to maintaining the highest level of academic integrity as an educational institution that provides university preparation and transfer courses recognized by other institutions. Students, faculty, and staff all share the responsibility to be aware of and comply with academic integrity policies, procedures, and deadlines. For more information, please refer to the Academic Calendar and Policy Manual.

According to the International Centre for Academic Integrity (2021), academic integrity is comprised of six fundamental values: honesty, trust, fairness, respect, responsibility, and courage. All members of Alexander College must commit to and practice these six fundamental values in all academic settings and services.

Students can practice academic integrity by:

• Doing their own work.
• Being honest with their instructors and school administration.
• Giving credit to other people’s work and ideas by using citations.
• Practicing the knowledge and skills they learn from class.
• Using appropriate sources of help (i.e., their instructors, the Writing & Learning Centre)

The College expects that instructors will uphold academic integrity by:

• Evaluating the work of students in a fair manner.
• Communicating assignment instructions and expectations clearly to students.
• Giving appropriate recognition, including authorship, to those who have made an intellectual contribution to the contents of presentations or publications, and only those people.
• Obtaining the permission of the author before using new information, concepts or data originally obtained through access to confidential manuscripts.