Academic and Conduct Policies of the Peabody Conservatory

The Peabody Conservatory of The Johns Hopkins University, its faculty, staff, and students are committed to encouraging academic honesty and ethical conduct. Membership in the Peabody community is contingent upon adherence to high standards of personal and professional ethics.

The effective practice of an ethical code of conduct requires the support of each member of the Peabody community. Each person is entrusted with two essential responsibilities: to live honorably within the established codes of conduct, and to hold other members of the community to the same high standard of conduct.

Students enrolled in the Peabody Conservatory assume an obligation to conduct themselves in a manner appropriate to an institution of higher education. A student is obliged to refrain from acts which he or she knows, or under the circumstances has reason to know, threaten the academic integrity of the Conservatory. Violations of academic integrity include, but are not limited to:

• cheating;
• plagiarism;
• misrepresentation of work;
• multiple submissions of the same work;
• falsification of an approval signature;
• knowingly furnishing false information to any agent of the Conservatory for inclusion in the academic records;
• and falsification, forgery, alteration, destruction, or misuse of official Conservatory documents or shared information technology resources.

Procedures for alleged violations of the academic and personal codes of conduct may be found in the Student Handbook.