The Honor Committee presented demographics data about the Committee and its support officers at last night’s meeting.
Committee Chair Jess Huang said this is the first year the Committee compiled demographics data, noting that she hopes the Committee will continue to gather data about demographics to track the relevance of the information throughout the years.
“It’s extremely important to first assess what we have,” Huang said.
About 92.5 percent of students involved with the honor system responded to the survey, with 224 of 242 students responding to the demographics survey. Of those who responded, about 72 percent stated they are in the College, compared to less than 5 percent in the Engineering School. Nine percent are in the Commerce School, while nearly 6 percent are in the Law School, 3.2 percent are in the Nursing School and nearly 3 percent study in the Darden School. The Architecture School, the Education School, the Medical School, the School of Continuing and Professional Studies, and the Graduate School of Arts & Sciences each have representation below 2 percent.
In some aspects, the data gathered about the new support officer pool reflects the data gathered about the entire group of Committee support officers. About 77 percent of new support officers recruited this fall are in the College, while about six percent are in the Engineering School and 1.4 percent are in the Architecture School. Graduate students make up 14.5 percent of the new officer pool. Of the 71 new support officers who responded to the survey, no one reported that he or she is in the Education School, the Commerce School, the School of Continuing and Professional Studies or the Graduate School of Arts & Sciences.
In terms of ethnic diversity, nearly 80 percent of the responding support officers said they are white. Of the University’s undergraduate population, 62.5 percent of students are white. Slightly more than 2 percent of support officers responded that they are black. Currently, 8.7 percent of the undergraduate population at the University is black.
About 3 percent of the Committee’s support officers are Latino compared to the undergraduate population’s 4.2 percent. The Committee’s Asian representation almost exactly mirrors the University’s Asian population; 11.7 percent of support officers are Asian, whereas 11.4 percent of undergraduate students are Asian.
The Committee also studied students’ affiliations with Greek organizations and their beliefs about the honor system. About 53 percent of the Committee is involved in a Greek organization, compared to about a third of all undergraduate students. About 72 percent of new support officers responded that they are not part of a Greek organization. Vice Chair for Investigations Blaire Hawkins added, however, that a number of new support officers are first-year students and have not had the opportunity to participate in rush yet.
Overall, 82.6 percent said they supported the single sanction. Slightly less than 80 percent of new support officers, however, said they support the single sanction system.
Huang said the goal of any representative body, including the Committee, should be to be as representative as possible.
“Is that idealistic? Yes,” Huang said. “But is it something we should work toward? I think so.”
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