VICTORY UNIVERSITY SYLLABUS BU-1200, Personal Finance ...

fails to instill in the student college-level life and career skills, and artificially inflates a student’s scorecontributing to the problem of grade inflation.Unsolicited requests from the student for special treatment are forbidden and will be rejected. Grantingsuch requests on an individual student basis is unfair to the remainder of the class and contributes to theproblem of grade inflation. Extra credit opportunities must be granted during the eight or sixteen weeksession and made equally available to all students in the course.IV. Unsolicited Requests for Grade ModificationResponding to a student’s last minute appeal for extra credit, assignment retakes, and grade modificationenables student incompetence, is unfair and unethical when not extended to the entire class, and degradesthe university culture and academic integrity of Victory University.Last-minute requests for inflated grades beyond what the student actually earned in the course will bedenied. Such requests often come in the form of requests for last-minute extra credit, retakes onassignments or exams, and even veiled threats of a grade appeal. The granting of such requests enablesstudent incompetence, degrades the academic integrity of the institution, and is unfair when not granted toevery member of the class.V. IncompletesAllowing a student extra time to complete work and assignments beyond the scope of the course whenthere are no serious extenuating circumstances is unfair to other students in the course, promotes badhabits of poor time management, and is against Victory University policy.Per the Victory catalog, incompletes are only awarded in cases of dire necessity. Incompletes are not tobe awarded simply to give students extra time to catch up on late work and are only available for missedwork beyond the course withdrawal deadline.VI. PlagiarismCheating in any form is fundamentally at odds with the integrity of a Christian University. Plagiarism inparticular meets the definition of [intellectual] theft and can be subject to legal prosecution. Allowingplagiarism to go unchecked without consequence decays the academic and institutional integrity ofVictory university.The definition of plagiarism, and methods for the proper citation of intellectual property should be clearlyarticulated to students in every course, and made widely available through the college library, the StudentSuccess Center, and through the academic advisers. A faculty member should not assume that studentscome prepared with a definition of plagiarism or its perils.If properly explained, Victory faculty should adhere to the Victory policy of closely monitoring studentassignments for dishonesty, taking a zero tolerance attitude towards plagiarism, and reporting all cases tothe office of the Vice President of Academic Affairs.The use of anti-plagiarism programs will be in use across-the-board by every full and part-time facultymember in every course.