Student Expectations

University Regulation

Expectations in the Classroom

Use of Human Subjects or Animals for Research

Academic Integrity

Plagiarism

Plagiarism by Faculty

Plagiarism by Students

Ethical Conduct

Student Rights & Responsibilities

Student Code of Conduct

Discrimination Policy

University Regulations

The student is advised to be familiar with the academic regulations of the University and of the Graduate College; the student is expected to assume full responsibility for knowing the relevant academic requirements. The student is also responsible for complying with all regulations of the University, the Graduate College and the departments of instruction as well as for meeting all degree requirements and deadlines.

Financial Information

Notice

The listing of courses contained in any University bulletin, catalog or schedule is by way of announcement only and shall not be regarded as an offer of contract. The University expressly reserves the right to:

• add or delete courses from its offerings,
  
• change times or locations of courses or programs,
  
• change academic calendars without notice,
  
• cancel any coures for insufficient registrations, or
  
• revise or change rules, charges, fees, schedules, courses, requirements for degrees and any other policy or regulation affecting students, including, but not limited to, evaluation standards, whenever the same is considered to be in the best interests of the University.

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Attendance and Behavior

Classes are conducted on the premise that regular attendance is desirable and expected. The individual instructor has the responsibility for managing student attendance and for communicating at the beginning of each semester those class attendance policies which prevail in that classroom.

If a student is absent or anticipates an absence, the student's primary responsibility is directly to the instructors, and the student should consult with them accordingly. A student who misses a class is nonetheless responsible for information and assignments communicated during that class session. If students discover that they are to be absent for an extended period, they should promptly notify the instructors and be prepared to document the reason for extended absences.

Instructors or other University officials who may require students, individually or collectively, to be absent from their classes due to a field trip or similar officially recognized activity are responsible for providing adequate information to the students involved so that the students may provide notice to other instructors.

Section 5.0 of the Bylaws of the Board of Regents of the University of Nebraska states:

"Students, like all members of the academic community, have the responsibility to create and support an educational environment. Each member of the community should be treated with respect and dignity. Each has the right to learn. This right imposes a duty not to infringe upon the rights of others. The academic community should assure its members those opportunities, protections and privileges that provide the best climate for learning."  

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Use of Human Subjects or Animals in Research

All campus research that involves the use of human subjects or animals must be reviewed and approved by the Institutional Review Board or the Animal Research Committee, respectively. This policy applies to both funded and non-funded faculty and student research. Any individual research project that involves human subjects or animals must be approved by the appropriate committee prior to initiation of the research. For additional information, visit or contact Sponsored Programs and Research, 203 Eppley Administration Building.

PLEASE NOTE: All personnel engaged in human subjects research must undergo training in the protection of human subjects. The Institutional Review Board will not approve an application until all key personnel are trained and certified. This includes both non-exempt and exempt human subjects. The Collaborative IRB Training Initiative (CITI) is a web-based training course available through the Sponsored Programs & Research web page: http://www.unomaha.edu/spr/

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Academic Integrity

• plagiarism*, i.e., the intentional appropriation of the work, be it ideas or phrasing of words, of another without crediting the source;
  
  
• cheating, i.e, unauthorized collaboration or use of external information during examinations;
  
  
• assisting fellow students in committing an act of cheating;
  
  
• falsely obtaining, distributing, using or receiving test materials or academic research materials;
  
  
• submitting examinations, themes, reports, drawings, laboratory notes, research papers or other work as one's own when such work has been prepared by another person or copied from another person (by placing his/her own name on a paper, the student is certifying that it is his/her own work); or
  
  
• improperly altering and/or inducing another to improperly alter any academic record.

• providing a full and complete representation of any scholarly find, be it experimental data or information retrieved from archives;
  
  
• taking care that the resources of the University (e.g., library materials, computer, or laboratory equipment) are used for their intended academic purposes and they are used in a manner that minimizes the likelihood of damage or unnecessary wear;
  
  
• assuring that one's co-workers are given due credit for their contributions to any scholarly endeavor;
  
  
• respecting a diversity of opinion and defending one's colleagues as well as one's own academic freedom;
  
  
• respecting the rights of other students who may come under the tutelage of the graduate student and being fair and impartial in grading and other forms of evaluation; and
  
  
• seeking permission from an instructor when submitting to that instructor work which the student has submitted for a course taken in the past or intends to submit for another course currently being taken.

* "By plagiarizing, a student is, in effect, claiming credit for another individual's thinking and expression. Whether the student has read or heard of the information used, the student must document the source of information. When utilizing written sources, a clear distinction should be made between quotations (which reproduce information from the source word-for-word within quotation marks) and paraphrases (which are restatements of the source information produced in the student's own words). Both direct quotations and paraphrases must be documented. Even though a student rephrases, condenses or selects from another person's work the ideas are still the other person's and failure to give credit constitutes misrepresentation of the student's actual work and plagiarism of another person's idea. Purchasing a paper or copying another person's work and handing it in as the student's personal work is plagiarism and misrepresentation."

From the Oakland University Graduate Catalog, 1987-89

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Plagiarism

The prevention of plagiarism and the imposition of sanctions upon those who resort to plagiarism is necessary in any university that espouses the ideals embodied in the concept of academic freedom. Plagiarism is the appropriation of the work (be it ideas or words) of another without crediting the source. Such a practice is particularly reprehensible in a community dedicated to the pursuit and advancement of knowledge.

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Plagiarism by Students

The investigation of allegations of plagiarism by a student or appeals therefrom, at any major administrative unit of the University of Nebraska, shall be carried out under the appropriate faculty-student appeals committee at that campus. Please refer to the General Appeals Procedures.  

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Ethical Conduct

It should be understood that academic performance is not the only criterion for graduation. Students are expected to maintain the highest standards of ethical conduct pertaining to academic course work, professional practice and research activity. Any breach in ethical conduct shall be subject to disciplinary action, regardless of the student's prior or current academic performance.

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