Policies and Guidelines

The section below summarizes the EP policy on academic misconduct which can be found here.

Johns Hopkins faculty and students have a joint responsibility to maintain the academic integrity of the university in all respects.

Students must conduct themselves in a manner appropriate to the university’s mission as an institution of higher education. Students are obligated to refrain from acts that they know, or under the circumstances have reason to know, impair the academic integrity of the university.

Violations of academic integrity include, but are not limited to: cheating; plagiarism; unapproved multiple submissions; knowingly furnishing false information to any agent of the university for inclusion in academic records; and falsification, forgery, alteration, destruction, or misuse of official university documents.

Members of the faculty are responsible for announcing the academic requirements of each course, for the conduct of examinations, and for the security of examination papers and teaching laboratories. Faculty should report suspected violations to the Academic Integrity Officer.

It is the responsibility of each student to report to the instructor any suspected violations of academic integrity.

If a student is suspected of academic misconduct in or related to a specific course, the faculty member responsible for the course must review the facts of the case promptly with the student. If a student is suspected of academic misconduct outside of a specific course, then either the program chair must review the facts of the case promptly with the student. If, after speaking with the student and any witnesses, the faculty member/program chair believes that academic misconduct has occurred, they must immediately contact EP’s Academic Integrity Officer, Heather Stewart to (a) determine whether the offense is a first offense or a subsequent offense, and (b) review the options and procedures available under this policy.

If there is to be an in-class final examination in a course, the instructor should give it during regularly scheduled class times. Instructors are expected to take reasonable precautions, including proctoring, to prevent cheating during examinations.

Examination procedures for online courses are addressed during the development of the course. For each assignment or examination, the instructor should explain the conditions under which the work is to be done and the consequences of violating these conditions. This is especially important in the case of “take-home” examinations, reports, and other out-of-class assignments.

The Krieger School of Arts and Sciences and the Whiting School of Engineering have purchased school-wide subscriptions to the Turnitin.com Plagiarism Prevention Service. This service provides an easy to use method for instructors to check the content of papers for plagiarized material. The CTEI offers training and information about this service. Faculty can request a Turnitin account by sending an e-mail to [email protected]. Additional information can be found at ctei.jhu.edu/tools-and-tech/turnitin.