Student Resources

 

Alcohol and Substance Abuse Information

Alcohol Use Rules and Regulations for Truman State University

 

Illegal Downloading

Digital Millennium Copyright Act Policy

 

Facebook

Face the Consequences

"Thoughts on Facebook" essay from Cornell University

 

Academic Integrity Guides, Resources, and Tips

"Academic Integrity"

     Truman State University's Poster on Academic Integrity

http://www.academicintegrity.org

     Center for Academic Integrity web site.  Links to other University honor codes as well

     resource links to information on academic integrity, ethics, and values

http://www.queensu.ca/secretariat/senate/policies/acaddish.html
     This site has several examples of academic dishonesty.

http://osu.orst.edu/admin/stucon/plag.htm
     This page has some examples on ‘acceptable borrowing’.

http://owl.english.purdue.edu/handouts/research/index.html
     This site offers a comprehensive guide for conducting research, proper citations

     (APA, MLA and electronic) and writing papers

 

Ethics

http://www.emory.edu/ETHICS/index.html

     Center for Ethics, Emory University. The Center for Ethics exists to enrich moral

     imagination, to deepen knowledge of ethics, and to encourage lives of moral meaning 

     and ethical practice.

http://kenan.ethics.duke.edu/

     The Kenan Institute for Ethics at Duke University provides this site. The KIE provides

     strong focus on ethics at Duke University in teaching, training, research, and everyday

     life by inspiring personal integrity and civic commitment.)

 

Values

http://www.collegevalues.org

     The Center for the Study of Values in College Student Development is housed at Florida

     State University.  Provides monthly University president diaries on ethics and values as

     well as featuring regular student reflections on the issue of values in college.  Many other

     resources on character, citizenship, and values.