The Honor Committee reached out this fall to students from a variety of University schools in an attempt to make the Committee more representative of the student body.
The Committee recruited 30 advisors, 27 counsel and 16 educators. The new advisors come from six schools: the College, the Darden School, the Engineering School, the Medical School, the Architecture School and the Law School. Vice Chair for Investigations Blaire Hawkins noted that last year the Committee’s advisors were almost exclusively from the College.
The counsel pool recruited members from the College and the Darden, Engineering, Law and Medical schools. The educator pool, meanwhile, has new members from Darden and the Engineering and Nursing schools, as well as from the College.
Committee Chair Jess Huang attributed the increase in diversity to the Committee’s hard work.
“Our Committee this year really stepped up,” Huang said. “They put a lot of effort in encouraging people in their school to try out.”
Huang said she is pleased with the increased number of representatives from schools other than the College.
“I think a lot of the time different schools have different cultures, and the only way you can only reach out to a specific school is to have someone who understands the culture of that school,” Huang said. “[Students] will feel that there’s a direct presence in their school rather than having the Honor Committee, especially in the graduate schools, be something that they associate purely with undergrad.”
The new support officers, however, do not include any students from the Education School, Commerce School, or School of Continuing & Professional Studies. Hawkins noted, though, that some of the newly recruited College students hope to transfer into the Commerce School.
— compiled by Stephanie Kassab
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