For more information about The Dean of Students Office, please contact:
Dr. Jen Day Shaw
Dean of Students
(336) 334-5514
jdshaw@uncg.edu
The University's Five Core Values
- Honesty
- An academic community of integrity advances the quest for truth and knowledge by requiring intellectual and personal honesty in learning, teaching, research, activities, and service. Cultivating honesty lays the foundation for lifelong integrity, developing in each of us the courage and insight to make difficult choices and accept responsibility for our actions and their consequences, even at a personal cost.
- Fairness
- An academic community of integrity establishes clear standards, practices, and procedures and expects fairness in the interactions of students, faculty, and administrators. For students, important components of fairness are predictability, clear expectations, and a consistent and just response to dishonesty. Faculty and administrators also have a right to expect fair treatment, not only from students but also from colleagues and the administration.
- Trust
- An academic community of integrity fosters a climate of trust, encourages the free exchange of ideas, and enables all to reach their highest potential. Only with trust can we believe in and rely on others and move forward as a community. Within an environment of trust, we can collaborate with individuals, sharing information and ideas without fear that our work or property will be stolen, our career stunted, or our reputations diminished. Through trust, our communities can believe in the social value and meaning of an institutions' scholarship and degrees.
- Respect
- An academic community of integrity recognizes the participatory nature of the learning process and honors and respects a wide range of opinions, ideas, and cultures.
- Responsibility
- An academic community of integrity upholds personal accountability and depends upon action in the face of wrongdoing. Every member of an academic community -- each student, faculty member, and administrator -- is responsible for upholding the integrity of the the community.
Adapted from the Center for Academic Integrity's Fundamental Principles project, 2000.