Campus has been filled with talk of our Honor Code, with students and faculty alike voicing concerns and questions about the Honor System. As members of the Honor System, we welcome your questions and insights.
Read More »The honor system intends to hold students accountable for academic discrepancies — but many faculty members see flaws in the system.
Read More »Students arrested by Chapel Hill police could soon see a new way in which their potential Honor Code violations are handled by the Honor Court.
Read More »Students taking department of exercise and sport science classes now have to go through an extra step to prove their academic integrity.
Read More »Major cheating allegations at one of the nation’s top universities have sparked a national conversation about the necessity of honor codes.
Read More »A new policy has been suggested that would give them the option to do what many already do — settle the problem on their own.
Read More »When Chancellor Holden Thorp issued a call for reform of the honor system last summer, the system’s student leaders vowed to retain the institution’s most tradition-bound characteristic — its entirely student-led structure. But with last week’s approval of a new sexual assault policy — one that removes cases from the jurisdiction of the honor system effective Aug. 1 — the institution’s autonomy was called into question.
Read More »As someone who’s spent the past four years working on (and eventually leading) the student attorney general’s staff, Jon McCay is in a unique position to talk about the University’s recent changes to its sexual assault policy.
Read More »For the past year, students and administrators have been lobbying to change the way cases of sexual assault are handled on campus, calling it unfair, taxing and ineffective.
Read More »Officials have proposed requiring all incoming freshmen and transfer students to complete a teaching module about plagiarism in an effort to introduce students to the Honor Code.
Read More »When dealing with reports of sexual assault from students, the University faces a complex problem. “We want to have a system that is ultimately sufficiently simple enough that it is accessible,” said Dean of Students Jonathan Sauls.
Read More »In the future, UNC students who witness violations of the Honor Code might be bound to report them, or face prosecution.
Read More »A module educating students about integrity and the honor system might be mandatory for incoming students as early as the fall of 2013.
Read More »UNC’s Faculty Council is poised to vote on a graduate-level honor system reform — one that is long overdue, proponents say.
Read More »As the University debates changes to its student-run honor system, outgoing Student Attorney General Jon McCay said he is worried.
Read More »Reform of the University’s honor system is still in its early stages, but administrators and student leaders say the scope of the changes will be broad. The honor system task force, which was created in the fall to reform the system, will divide discussion into three categories: the system’s history, attitudes about it and peer systems.
Read More »As student leaders of the University’s Honor Court educate students this week about role of the honor system, opinion editor Maggie Zellner sat down with Michelle Healy, chair of the Undergraduate Honor Court, to discuss how they make decisions and determine sanctions.
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The legitimacy of the University’s student-run honor system has been in the campus spotlight for months, highlighting the perception that it is isolated from faculty and the student body.
Read More »While reform to the honor system is already underway, faculty members are realizing there is still a long way to go.
Read More »The honor system will be promised $16,500 in funding each year if a new bill moving through Student Congress is approved next week.
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