College and Commerce Honor Committee representatives addressed the need to maintain relationships with their schools' faculty Sunday evening, while the entire Committee also discussed the future goals of various subcommittees, which seek to address community concerns.
Vice Chair for Investigations Blaire Hawkins, a College representative, noted during the newly approved weekly report that College representatives hope to develop strong relationships within school departments and various College-related organizations. Hawkins said Honor will "benefit from sponsoring events and communicating back and forth" with the Arts & Sciences Council about concerns College students have in regards to honor.
Vice Chair for Education Ryann Burke, a Commerce School representative, similarly noted that she and others would focus on fostering and improving relationships with professors and departments in the Commerce School. Burke added that she hopes to further the Committee's education efforts within the Commerce School.
"There is a lot of group work [in the Commerce School] and it is important professors explain the difference between group assignments and individual work," Commerce School Rep. Christina Polenta said, expanding on Burke's sentiment.
The Committee not only discussed how it can improve community relations and communications by reaching out to schools, but also addressed how Committee members can more effectively interact with each other through "Honor Braintrust" meetings.
The weekly meetings will be dedicated to "developing goals and talking about the big picture [for the Committee]," Chair Jess Huang said, explaining that the meetings will consist of members of the Executive Committee, senior support officers and all Honor Committee members wishing to participate.
"It will also bring up some of the issues brought up in community concerns," she added.
Though "Braintrust" meetings will allow an opportunity to address community concerns, Committee members also devoted time Sunday to discussing how many of the issues frequently raised in the community concerns portion of weekly meetings relate to their respective subcommittees' future goals.
Law School Rep. Sarah Robertson said the Committee's Diversity Advisory Board plans to address the community concern of spotlighting and dimming, which can result in the disproportionate reporting of minority students for honor offenses.
The board will work with "leaders of organizations within the Minority Rights Coalition and work on increasing diversity in recruiting for honor," Robertson said, adding that the board also will continue to educate international students about the honor system.
The Faculty Advisory Committee, meanwhile, hopes to improve student turnout at its events and continue addressing faculty concerns as they may arise, Polenta said. Previous Faculty Advisory Committee events geared toward both students and faculty members -- such as the faculty Honor luncheons -- have seen poor student attendance, she noted.
"It seems like a lot of what professors wanted is to talk to students, and it would be beneficial to have more students to speak to," Polenta explained.
Finally, concerns regarding the system's single sanction policy will be discussed in the recently reinstated single sanction ad-hoc committee, said graduate College Rep. Adam Trusner, chair of the ad-hoc committee?.
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