This Web page provides information to assist students in upholding academic integrity and avoiding academic dishonesty.   

As described in the Academic Integrity Code, students are responsible for knowing academic standards, conventions of documentation, course requirements, and institutional policies.  By registering as a student at American University, all students acknowledge their awareness of the code.  Academic excellence fundamentally depends upon the values of academic integrity.  Students are urged to take pride in their own ideas and to respect the work of others.  Be original.  It’s your degree!

The information below can help to enhance the integrity of your education.  Take the academic integrity Quiz to test your knowledge of AU’s integrity code and standards of academic conduct.

AU Faculty/Staff Assistance

At times you may have questions about what constitutes academic dishonesty or how the Academic Integrity Code functions.  When this occurs, seek out an authority to help.

• Course instructors are the best resources for academic integrity questions/issues related to their curriculum.  They will be pleased that you asked.
• The staff of the Writing Center, the Academic Support Center, and the University Library include experts on how to avoid plagiarism, in particular.
• Each school and college’s Office of the Dean can address questions about the Academic Integrity Code and the adjudication of academic dishonesty charges.