At their meeting last night, the Honor Committee announced its new Executive Committee for the 2005-2006 school year.
The new Executive Committee was elected yesterday during the annual Honor retreat attended by the new and current Honor Committee.
Newly-elected Honor Executive Committee members include Chair David Hobbs, Vice-chair for Services Trevor McFadden, Vice-chair for Education Randall Warden, Vice-chair for Investigations Lauren Ross and Vice-chair for Trials Stewart Ackerly.
The Honor Committee announced its new Executive Committee for the 2005-2006 school year last night.
Current chair Meghan Sullivan noted that the new Executive Committee has a combined 16 years experience with Honor.
The new Honor Committee will spend the next two weeks preparing to take office.
"One of the Honor Committee's main tasks over the next two weeks is transitioning the new Committee," Sullivan said.
During the retreat the new Honor Committee was trained in the past and present state of the honor system, including the actions of the current Committee.
"The current Committee is handing off a lot of good work we hope to carry forward," Hobbs said.
Yesterday, on the last day of the three-day retreat, the new committee discussed their aims for the upcoming year.
One of the major goals of the new Executive Committee is the pursuit of diversity.
"We need to look into a new and permanent effort to gain diversity in the system," Hobbs said.
Ross agreed that the University community has become very diverse and that they would like the Honor Committee to reflect that diversity.
Ackerly referenced the issue of initiations bias against foreign students by noting the need to especially recruit international students.
Other aims of the new Executive Committee include streamlining the logistical side of honor cases and improving honor education.
"We need to make initiation a less burdensome process to encourage initiations from students," Ackerly said.
The retreat also gave the new committee a chance to get acquainted.
Hobbs said he was pleased that the new Committee "meshed" very well.
The 2004-2005 Honor Committee will have its last meeting April 3 and the new committee will assume office April 4.
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