Topic: Honor

New Honor code restores expulsion
Students overwhelmingly vote in multiple sanctions among 27 reforms
March 3, 2023


Honor Up Close
Roger Martin made a convincing case not to cheat in his class. Or so you would have thought.
Summer/Fall 2022

From President Ryan: Change can reinvigorate the Honor System
The Honor System remains the epitome of UVA’s tradition of student self-governance
Summer/Fall 2022

From the Publisher: Living Honor
Introducing Living Honor, a multimedia project that brings students and alumni together to understand each other’s perspectives on Honor.
Summer/Fall 2022

Leave But Come Back: UVA Honor Ends Expulsions
As stunning as the outcome seemed, it was 50 years in coming.
March 8, 2022

Decoding Honor
What 99 years of never-before compiled data reveal about the UVA Honor System.
Summer 2019

Honor Allows a Fuller Confession
A recent vote allows Informed Retraction's protection from expulsion to protect more broadly.
Summer 2018


Honor Undergoes a Full-Scale Review
The single sanction’s razor-thin survival of a student vote has prompted the Honor Committee to appoint a study commission, the first such comprehensive review of the University of Virginia Honor System since 2000.
Fall 2016

Letters to the Editor
Many readers sent in feedback to the summer cover story “Modern Honor.” A selection of letter excerpts appear, along with a letter from the Editor on the Honor System piece.
Fall 2016

Modern Honor
In 2013, students voted in an “informed retraction” measure to the Honor System. This past spring, the single sanction barely survived a vote. Now what?
Summer 2016

Honor Update
Honor Committee chair says that Informed Retraction, introduced in April 2013, has been a success.
Summer 2014


Letters to the Editor
Summer 2013

Honorable Intentions
In a late-February vote, students voted to add an informed retraction option to the University's Honor System. Students voted on two proposals.
Summer 2013

Changes to the Honor System 2013
February 27, 2013

Letters to the Editor
Spring 2013

Honor Committee Proposes Changes to System
How the Honor System has evolved why the Honor Committee hopes its new proposal might help.
January 21, 2013

The Honor Committee’s Proposal
Follow two students as they go through both the existing and proposed Honor systems.
January 21, 2013

A Culture of Caring
Winter 2010

Student Leader Updates
Fall 2010

News Briefs
Summer 2009

Letters to the Editor
Summer 2008

The Evolution of Honor
The 'community of trust' traces its origins to the first students, but the Honor System has taken some twists and turns over the years.
Spring 2008