2021-2022 Student Catalog | Academic Policies & Procedures

Academic Integrity

Northeastern Seminary seeks to promote academic honesty within the Seminary community. Academic writing requires a strong culture of careful documentation of the use of sources, both to ensure intellectual integrity and to provide the apparatus for scholarly work by others using your materials. Such honesty is fundamental to the principles of the Judeo-Christian tradition and education. To foster among students a spirit of honest intellectual inquiry, the Seminary has identified the following practices as unacceptable: 

  1. Cheating in its various forms, whether copying another student’s work, allowing work to be copied, using unauthorized aids on an examination, fabricating research data, or submitting as your own another person’s work
  2. Denying other students access to academic information whether in the classroom, li­brary, or computer lab
  3. Destroying, altering, or tampering with another student’s work to impede academic progress
  4. Plagiarizing (presenting as one’s own the words or ideas of another person)—including inadequate documentation of sources and excessive dependence on the language of sources even when documented. As a guard against plagiarism, the student should learn how to document his or her sources. The Northeastern Seminary faculty has adopted the Chicago style as described in A Manual for Writers of Term Papers, Theses, and Dissertations (Eighth Edition), by Kate L. Turabian. A writing guide prepared by the faculty is provided in the online orientation guide and on the Seminary's internal website theCommons.
  5. Submitting the same or similar work for more than one course or assignment without documentation and/or approval from the professor
  6. Copying of copyrighted materials, including computer software 

Students who knowingly violate the principles of academic honesty will be subjected to disciplinary action through the Vice President and Dean’s Office. Depending on the nature of the offense, the student’s grade or credit earned may be affected. In serious cases, the student may be suspended or terminated.