Regulations - Graduate

Private Property Rights

Georgia law provides the owners of private property with the right to regulate the possession of firearms. Students, faculty, staff, and the general public are forbidden from having firearms, fireworks, explosives or explosive devices, or other weapons on University property. This includes the storage of such devices in automobiles parked on University property. Exception is made for licensed public safety officials in the employ of the University and for licensed public safety officers from other jurisdictions who are on University property in the discharge of their official duties.

Honor Pledge

All students, by their enrollment at Piedmont University, commit to the Honor Pledge:

The Piedmont University community emphasizes high ethical standards for its members. Accordingly, I promise to refrain from acts of academic dishonesty including plagiarism and to uphold the Academic Integrity Policy in all endeavors at Piedmont University.

Academic Integrity Policy

In accordance with the mission statement at Piedmont University, it is the responsibility of each member of the Piedmont community to promote an atmosphere of academic integrity and an understanding of intellectual honesty that adheres to the highest standards of professional and personal conduct.

To protect intellectual and scholarly integrity, the University imposes strict penalties for academic dishonesty, which is defined as follows.

• Cheating — intentionally using or attempting to use unauthorized materials, information or study aids in any academic exercise.
• Fabrication — intentional and unauthorized invention or falsification of any information or citation in an academic exercise or altering official college records or documents.
• Facilitating academic dishonesty — intentionally or knowingly helping or attempting to help another to commit an act of academic dishonesty.
• Plagiarism — intentionally or knowingly representing the words or ideas of another as one’s own in any academic exercise.