Your responsibility as a student or staff member of the University is to adhere to academic integrity and the Code of Conduct.
What is Academic Integrity?
Academic integrity is ‘the moral code of academic life and endeavour. It involves using, generating and communicating information in an ethical, honest and responsible manner’ (adapted from Monash University, 2013, quoted in TEQSA Guidance Note on Academic Integrity, 2019).
The University of Divinity has adopted this definition of academic integrity because of its alignment with the University’s mission of excellence in learning, teaching and research, whereby students and staff develop knowledge, understanding and skills while demonstrating due regard for the work of others.
Academic Integrity means:
All work by members of the University, whether for assessment, publication or use as a teaching or learning resource, must acknowledge the rightful owners of any material utilised.
It is your responsibility to understand how and when to appropriately acknowledge any material used or drawn upon. Failure to do so may be viewed as a breach of academic integrity. Guidance on how to comply with the expected standards of acknowledgement and other aspects of academic writing, including working with TurnItIn, are available through your College and lecturer, and also in the University Style Guide.
Academic Misconduct means:
A breach of academic integrity.
Examples of breaches of Academic Integrity
Learn more about Academic Integrity
In Semester 2, 2022, the University of Divinity, in collaboration with Colleges and the School of Graduate Research (SGR), is launching a learning experience in the area of Academic Integrity. This learning module which will be on ARK is for all coursework students and higher degree by research (HDR) candidates, for more awareness and support in practicing the values and skills of Academic Integrity. If you are a student or candidate, your College or the SGR will direct you as part of your orientation or other guidance to the module, which is to be completed in Semester 2.