Honor Code
College Readies Honor Council Procedures, Membership
The Honor Council, the composition of which will be announced this spring, is scheduled to begin hearing academic integrity cases next fall at the same time as the College's first honor code is implemented.
Khurana Honor Code
Rakesh Khurana, now dean of the College, listens as then Interim Dean of the College Donald H. Pfister shares his thoughts at a panel on academic integrity in 2013. The College's first-ever honor code will be instated in the fall of 2015.
Video: Top 10 Stories That Shaped 2014
2014 was a year of change and controversy as Harvard affiliates reacted to events on campus and across the nation. In this feature, Crimson Multimedia uses photo and video to recap the 10 biggest stories of 2014.
Integrity Committee Prepares to Assemble Honor Council
The student-faculty judicial body will be chosen and trained by the Academic Integrity Committee.
Faust University Hall
Harvard President Drew G. Faust leaves University Hall in May 2014 after the last regular meeting Faculty of Arts and Sciences meeting of the year, during which the body approved the College's first-ever honor code.
Faculty Approves College’s First Honor Code, Likely Effective Fall 2015
The code lays out formal expectations for academic integrity and creates a new student-faculty/administrator judicial board to hear cases regarding the violation of those expectations.
Honor Code Would Face Tough Challenges in Inculcating Culture Shift
Those charged with implementing the honor code may encounter hurdles created by a restructured disciplinary system and a community that may be apathetic to the policy’s purpose.
Honor Proposal Would Catch Harvard Up, Incrementally, With the Times
While some members of the committee that drafted the proposal acknowledge its limited scope, they maintain that changes to Harvard’s disciplinary process must be incremental to be effective.
In Light of Honor Code Proposal, Working Group Discusses Integrity Conversations
The ad hoc group is working to identify possible points during the undergraduate experience to start conversations about academic integrity.
