Academic Dishonesty

Nexford University expects all learners, both current and alumni, to maintain high standards of academic integrity. They must submit their own work, respect others' intellectual property, use AI tools ethically, and only collaborate on assessments if allowed by the course faculty. Violations, such as plagiarism, cheating, or unauthorized collaboration, can lead to disciplinary actions, including dismissal. Alumni who violate these standards may face consequences like being barred from re-enrollment, having transcripts withheld, or losing their degree. Serious cases may go to the University Review Committee (URC), and learners will be notified in writing, with a chance to respond. If allowed to continue, they will receive guidance on meeting Nexford’s standards.

Copying from another NXU learner’s work or other outside resources is monitored and detected by TurnItIn, a digital plagiarism detector tool used by course professors. For more information about TurnItIn, refer to the article, "What is TurnItIn?"

Any learners detected will receive an academic warning where they will be required to review the resources . Any repeated behavior will be reviewed by the University Review Committee (URC) where the learner may be subject to a university dismissal.

NXU adheres to the academic policy standards of citing sources and listing the references taken from physical or online sources by using the Nexford Citation Style Guide. 

• As a Nexford learner, it is very important that you attribute sources when you use their information including text, audio, images, and video. There are formal citation styles such as APA and MLA. For people who are studying to get their doctoral degree or a theoretical master’s degree, it makes sense to learn the specific citation style used in the field of study. But, for most of us, the most important aspect of citations is that we are providing the information necessary to know where we got our information from and how someone else could also locate that information.
  
  
• Because of this, we have a Nexford citation style guide that includes ALL of the elements you must include for each citation. Below, you'll find a list of commonly cited sources that you will use throughout your time at Nexford. It is possible that you might cite a type of source not found here in our list of examples. If you do, we encourage you to include as much information as possible from that source, so that other people, such as your instructor, can locate that source.

For more information about plagiarism, refer to the article, "What is plagiarism?"