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CODE OF
ETHICS
The Statement of Ethical Values guides ethical accountability and aligns with the Seminary’s vision, mission, and purpose.
Academic Integrity
Mississippi Baptist Seminary assumes that all its students desire to pursue all academic work with honesty and scholarly integrity. Breaches of academic honesty and integrity are infringements of the mutual faith and trust essential to the academic enterprise. Activities that have the effect or intention of interfering with education, pursuit of knowledge, or fair evaluation of a student’s performance are prohibited. Examples of activities include, but are not limited to, the following definitions.
Cheating
Using or attempting to use unauthorized assistance, material, or study aids in examinations or other academic work, or preventing or attempting to prevent another from using authorized assistance, material, or study aids. Examples: using a cheat sheet; altering a graded exam and resubmitting it for a better grade, etc.
Plagiarism
Using the ideas, data, or language of another without specific and proper acknowledgement. Examples: misrepresenting another’s work or using someone else’s ideas (paper, report, article, or computer work) as one’s own original creation and submitting it for an assignment; failing to cite a reference or to use quotation marks where appropriate, etc.
Fabrication
Submitting contrived or altered information in any academic exercise. Examples: making up data, fudging data; citing nonexistent or irrelevant articles, etc.
Multiple Submissions
Submitting, without prior permission, any work submitted to fulfill another academic requirement. Example: submitting the same paper for two different classes without the instructor’s express prior approval.
Misrepresentation of Academic Records
Misrepresenting or tampering with or attempting to tamper with any portion of a student’s transcripts or academic record, either before or after coming to Mississippi Baptist Seminary. Examples: forging a Registration Form or a grade report; tampering with computer records, etc.
Facilitating Academic Dishonesty
Knowingly helping or attempting to help another person violate any provision of this code. Example: working together on an exam or others’ assignments intended to be an individual project without the instructor’s express or prior approval.
Unfair Advantage
Attempting to gain unauthorized advantage over fellow students in an academic exercise. Examples: gaining or providing unauthorized access to examination materials (either past or present); obstructing or interfering with another student’s efforts in an academic exercise; lying about a need for an extension for an exam or paper; continuing to write even when time is up during an exam etc.
Computer Crimes
Damaging or modifying computer programs without permission. Examples: piracy of copyright protected software; hacking; constructing viruses; knowingly introducing viruses into a system; copying programs and data belonging to others, and so on. Those students whose work definitively can be shown to breach academic honesty or scholarly integrity will face academic investigation. Sanctions will be imposed, ranging from course failure to dismissal from the school.
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