The SSA Honor Code is based on the Stanford University Honor Code, adapted to our educational setting.

The purpose of the Stanford Solutions Academy Honor Code is to uphold a culture of academic honesty and nurture student work that is ethically produced, original, and personally meaningful. SSA students join the program under the expectation that they value the foundational tenets of the Academy, including ownership of their own projects, genuine participation, developing collegial relationships based on trust and good faith, and awareness of the value of process, not just results.

Students will support this culture of academic honesty by neither giving nor accepting unpermitted academic aid in any work that serves as a component of SSA courses, projects, or activities, including but not limited to assignments, presentations, ePortfolios, and research. Students will uphold a commitment to originality and process, including by learning and implementing professional citation and documentation practices, avoiding plagiarism in all forms, and avoiding the use of AI tools as a replacement for student work (as opposed to tools used in a limited capacity to support original student work).

Instructors will support this culture of academic honesty by providing clear guidance, both in their course syllabi and in response to student questions, on what constitutes permitted and unpermitted aid. Instructors will also not take unusual or unreasonable precautions to prevent academic dishonesty.

Students and instructors will also cultivate an environment conducive to academic integrity. While instructors alone set academic requirements, the Honor Code is a community undertaking that requires students and instructors to work together to ensure conditions that support academic integrity.