The Honor Committee discussed ways to become more involved in the admissions and decisions processes at the University at their meeting Sunday evening.
The Committee would like to become more involved in providing information about honor to newly admitted and prospective students, Honor Chair Faith Lyons said.
“We’ve spent a lot to time talking about sanctions and the end of the process, but there’s a really wonderful opportunity to provide students the information on the front end,” the fourth-year Commerce student said.
The Committee hopes to prevent potential honor violations from occurring by providing students with information about honor issues such as plagiarism and multiple submission early on.
While the idea remains in the planning phase, the Honor Committee already has ideas on what it would like to see moving forward. Lyons said she hopes to be more present to students applying as well as with accepted students.
In the past, the Honor Committee has discussed providing resources to prospective students as well as having a presence at the admission for days graduate students. Although Honor already has a table at undergraduate Days on the Lawn, the group hopes to add letters about honor to the student acceptance packet.
“Getting resources to students who are applying might not be feasible right now, but I think we can make recommendations for the next committee or people moving forward,” Lyons said.
As students decide which school to attend, Honor Committee members would like to provide resources about what honor looks like at the University to help with the decision-making process.
In addition to focusing on students that are undergraduates, members of the Honor Committee aim to work more with graduate students. Darden has held a plagiarism tutorial for the past five years, which teaches first-year students about Darden’s expectations on plagiarism, Darden Representative Alison Mehlsak said.
“Every first-year session, in the first two weeks of class, goes through their own orientation, and this year for the first time it was immediately followed by a one-hour plagiarism session to help students understand,” the second-year Darden student said.
For Lyons, there are two ways of addressing cheating in the University — having honor reports and trying to combat cheating from occurring at all.
“If we can be a better resource for students who just might not understand honor policies and courses, we’d like to do that,” Lyons said.
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