About Smeal
Honor & Integrity at Smeal
Understand Smeal’s expectations for academic and professional integrity, explore the Honor Code and related resources, and find opportunities to support integrity across the Smeal community.
Why a Culture of Honor & Integrity Matters
At Smeal, Honor & Integrity extends beyond individual conduct. It shapes how members of our community learn, teach, conduct research, work, and lead. Students, faculty, staff, alumni, and partners share responsibility for sustaining that culture.
A strong culture of Honor & Integrity:
Establishes clear and consistent expectations across classrooms, research, programs, and the workplace.
Strengthens trust among students, faculty, staff, alumni, employers, and partners.
Makes it easier for community members to raise concerns and address ethical challenges constructively.
Protects the credibility of Smeal’s education, research, decisions, and credentials.Encourages members of the community to hold themselves and one another accountable while supporting learning and improvement.Prepares students for professional expectations and supports faculty and staff in modeling integrity through their work.
The Smeal Honor Code: This Is Who We Are
The Honor Code connects academic integrity with professional integrity, affirming that the standards guiding our academic lives are the same standards we carry into our careers.
“We, the Smeal College of Business community, aspire to the highest ethical standards and will hold each other accountable to them. We will not engage in any action that is improper or that creates the appearance of impropriety in our academic lives, and we intend to hold to this standard in our future careers.”
What Our Community Tells Us
We regularly gather perspectives from students, faculty, staff, alumni, and employers to understand how Honor & Integrity is experienced—and where our culture can become stronger.
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Students agreeing Smeal faculty hold them to high academic integrity standards
76%
Recruiters agreeing Smeal’s focus on integrity is a reason to recruit here
81%
Staff agreeing Smeal’s focus on integrity & ethics is a reason they support it
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Students agreeing Smeal prepares them for the ethical expectations of business