The University of Oregon is home to a world-class, vibrant, and diverse intellectual community. Every student and teacher here is a valued part of that community. The University is committed to introducing students to cutting-edge scholars and researchers in the classroom, and also to respecting students themselves as scholars and researchers. UO faculty members immerse students in the methods of inquiry and modes of communication that are valued in the academic disciplines.

During their UO careers, many undergraduates write bold, original arguments and undertake serious research in the field and laboratory; our students contribute to knowledge about human life and thought and about the natural world that is of interest to public and scholarly audiences far beyond our campus.

Each member of our community bears the responsibility to be scrupulous and honest in our intellectual pursuits and to acknowledge other scholars whose work has influenced our own. This is known as maintaining one’s academic integrity; its obverse, academic dishonesty, can take the form of cheating, plagiarizing, falsifying data, and violating the University’s policies to gain unfair academic advantage.

In 2006, the University of Oregon Faculty Senate passed the Student Conduct Code, which emphasizes the “rights, safety, dignity and worth of every individual” and the standards of our community. Students contributed to developing this code and now sit alongside faculty and administrators on the boards that consider academic integrity complaints and appeals. This Web site focuses on the academic portions of our Student Conduct Code: we hope it will be a valuable resource for the campus, and invite open conversation about just what UO’s standards are, and why we value them as essential to the UO community.

“We welcome our students at both the undergraduate and graduate levels and invite them to participate fully in the University as scholars, writers, researchers, and artists. The life-blood of the institution is the creativity, creation of knowledge, good citizenship, and integrity — both academic and personal — that we all bring to campus.”

—Barbara Altmann, Vice Provost
for Academic Affairs and Professor of French