Welcome to the Honor System Website. This site is designed to provide information, assistance, and inspiration to faculty members and graduate instructors responsible for establishing a strong culture of academic integrity here at UNC.

The Honor System represents a partnership forged and renewed by students, faculty, and staff at Carolina over many generations, as the best means available to maintain high standards of academic integrity and student conduct within our community. The system serves several functions including the articulation of important norms regarding the pursuit of truth and respect for others who have come together for that purpose. It places squarely on the shoulders of students the responsibility for self and peer discipline as cornerstones of governance, imparting lessons crucial to those who will emerge as citizen-leaders.

The Honor System provides students with informal education in many venues around campus, and assists instructors by providing information that can aid them in preventing misconduct. The existence of the system, including the serious sanctions that can be imposed for student misconduct, also serves as a deterrent to those who may be tempted to cut corners at times. Finally, the system serves as the means of intervening in the evident of student misconduct, through a structured process in which facts are found and sanctions are imposed.

This website provides more detailed information on

• The Honor System, including the specific provisions of the Honor Code, sanctions that may be imposed, and processes used to resolve problems of misconduct when they arise;
• The role of faculty members in setting academic ground rules and preventing misconduct before it occurs;
• The steps to be taken in reporting suspected misconduct;
• Supplemental resources for use in teaching about academic integrity and related topics;
• Opportunities for greater involvement in the Honor System and its work.

Please take steps to become aware of the Honor System and its operation through the information available on this website.

Judith Wegner
Chair of the Faculty
Chair, Committee on Student Conduct
judith_wegner@unc.edu