Academic and Ethical Integrity Policy Across Digital Environments
1. Vision and Values: Academic integrity represents the foundational pillar governing Al-Safwa University. Preserving scientific and intellectual honesty is a collective mandate shared by students, researchers, and faculty members alike. This obligation encompasses all digital operations, publications, and outputs associated with the university.
2. Classification of Academic Misconduct: The university strictly prohibits and penalizes the following infractions across all platforms:
- Plagiarism: Paraphrasing, copying, or extracting ideas, text, designs, or published research and claiming ownership without explicit, standardized academic citation of the original source.
- Fabrication and Falsification: Inventing, altering, or manipulating research data, marks, or official reports published or submitted for evaluation.
- Digital Collusion: Assisting another user in committing an academic violation or impersonating another individual to execute scholarly assignments.
3. Rigorous Citation Standards: The university mandates that all researchers and students strictly adhere to internationally recognized academic citation manuals (e.g., APA, Harvard, IEEE) when formulating scientific content, ensuring absolute transparency regarding original authorship.
4. Consequences and Disciplinary Actions: Any proven breach of academic integrity immediately subjects the perpetrator to disciplinary enforcement governed by the Higher Education Student Conduct Regulations. Penalties may include academic failure, absolute enrollment termination, or prosecution under legal statutes regarding the falsification of official instruments.