Teaching and promoting academic honesty is a three-way partnership among the school, the family, and the student. The faculty of Wyoming Seminary believes that mutual trust is a cornerstone of its program and that any violation of this trust is a serious disciplinary matter. Parents are urged to support our unalterable position on all matters of academic honesty.

• Academic Dishonesty: refers to forms of cheating and plagiarism which result in students giving or receiving unauthorized assistance in an academic exercise or receiving credit for work which is not their own.
• Cheating: intentionally using or attempting to use unauthorized materials, information, or study aids in any academic exercise. The term “academic exercise” includes all forms of work submitted for credit.
• Facilitating Academic Dishonesty: intentionally or knowingly helping or attempting to help another to violate academic integrity.
• Plagiarism: the deliberate adoption or reproduction of ideas, data, language, or statements of another person as one’s own without proper acknowledgement.
  

Faculty members are expected to involve the Dean of the Upper School and Honor Council in each case of academic dishonesty. Although there are no automatic penalties with respect to violations of academic integrity, students are to understand that cheating in any form is considered a serious breach of conduct and will be dealt with accordingly.

The Wyoming Seminary Academic Honor Code

1. Rationale:
   
   Wyoming Seminary is an academic community based on trust. Honesty in the execution and presentation of graded work is vital for real learning and fair evaluation.
   
   Cheating, facilitating cheating, or plagiarism impede learning and creativity, undermine meaningful and just grading, and subvert
   trust between and among students and faculty.
   
   Each faculty member has the responsibility to delineate clearly to students which assignments should be completed without assistance, and what citations are appropriate. Students are expected to sign an Honor Code Statement on specified tests, papers and reports:
   
   “I have neither given nor received unauthorized aid on this work.”
   
   
2. Each Student Agrees:
   
   I understand and will support and follow the Honor Code.
   
   I will not personally use unauthorized materials, and I will not participate with others in cheating.
   
   I will not facilitate cheating, and, if I become aware of violations of academic integrity, I understand that I have a responsibility to the community and should at least say something to the student involved or discuss the situation with a teacher or an Honor Code Council member.
   
   
3. The Honor Council:
   
   An Upper School Honor Council of six students and two faculty elected by Government will help educate the community on the value of the Code and its importance to Wyoming Seminary, on an ongoing basis. Violations of the Code will be brought to the committee by the Chair of the Council in consultation with the Dean of Upper School, upon report of classroom teachers or members of the Council. The Council will recommend to the Dean of Upper School appropriate action which could include warning, censure, probation, suspension or dismissal (dismissal requires approval by the President).