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Honor

UVA’s Honor System is student-run and nearly two centuries old. It has been rewritten, worked around, and in places abandoned. We follow what is left of it.

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President Joel Gardner’s Letter to the BOV

<p>A senior tenured faculty member has anonymously expressed concerns about various circumstances prevalent on Grounds. This professor wishes to remain anonymous due to fear of retaliation by the administration. One of the matters he/she discusses is the deterioration of our Honor System, focusing on the "secession" by the faculty from the System.</p>
Honor

UVA Faculty Have Seceded from the Honor System

<p>The Jefferson Council has received a letter from a senior University of Virginia faculty member who, for fear of retaliation, asks to remain anonymous. He outlines what he calls “generic” concerns of the UVA faculty. The first focuses on a critical  dysfunction of the Honor System.</p>
Accountability

How UVA Holds Students “Accountable”

<p>If such bullying behavior is shown to be the norm for some types of students and not others, UVA has a very big problem.</p>
Accountability

Remembering and Reinvigorating the UVA Honor Code

<p>The University of Virginia Honor System is governed by students, but the Board of Visitors is enjoined by its mission statement to support and uphold the Honor System. Here's what the Board can do to strengthen the culture of Honor at UVA without infringing upon student sovereignty.</p>

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Extensive Plagiarism Alleged for Education School PhD Dissertation

<p class="" style="white-space:pre-wrap;">Is this case an outlier or a symptom of a larger corruption in which academic standards were suspended for demographically favored groups?</p>

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