**3. Conclusions**

From this analysis, it can be concluded that, in the first place, ethics as a normative science constitutes a set of socially accepted guidelines that regulate the honest behavior of people and that, since higher education is a process directed by and for people, its actions must be governed by ethics. In this sense, the CU promotes within its community the practice of five values declared as institutional: honesty, the culture of peace and justice, freedom, responsibility, and tolerance.

Second, the degree process development at the CU is based on ethics; that is, students, professors, and administrators perform their functions based on institutional values, which allow them to obtain excellent results in the different evaluation processes. Thus, the self-evaluation report of the Nursing program shows a satisfactory evaluation criterion for the graduation process monitoring and that this, in turn, positively affects the graduation rate with a percentage three times higher than expected, which responds to the internal evaluation processes and the percentages obtained in each term, mostly higher than 80% of students graduating at the end of the senior year.

Third, at the CU, the degree process has two aspects relevant to ethical performance in its regulations. One corresponds to the mandatory use of the plagiarism prevention system, whose maximum similarity percentage is 10%. The second one corresponds to the sanction that should be applied to the student who acts with

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academic dishonesty in the complex examination development or the completion and submission of the degree project.

All these aspects show a strong institutional attitude toward the ethical actions of its community, which is expressed in the empowerment of the values of the CU in the planning of each of its processes and particularly in the respect for intellectual property that ensures the future of the graduate in their professional performance.
