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Academic Honesty

Essential to Wofford’s academic program is the integrity of student work. Representing someone else’s work or idea as one’s own, collaborating in unauthorized ways with peers, cheating or lying in a course or other academic context—these are all serious offenses.

Academic honesty at Wofford is governed by the Honor Council, a group of students entrusted to uphold the Honor Code. At the beginning of each semester, a summary of Honor Council hearings from the prior semester, including the number and types of cases considered and the sanctions imposed, will be published in The Old Gold & Black. No information that would identify specific individuals will be included in any published report.

The possible penalties for a student found guilty of academic dishonesty are as follows:

  • WF in the course, replaceable (the course may be repeated to improve GPA)
  • WF in the course, non-replaceable (the course may not be repeated to improve GPA)
  • Suspension for a semester or more
  • Exclusion from the college

A complete description of the Honor Code can be found in The Student Handbook.