Sixteen students from the Honors Developing Leaders Course are planning to develop an honor code for the University of Idaho.
Freshman Nate Fisher, one of the students working on the honor code, said it was a proposed class project from Alton Campbell, associate director of the honors program.
ASUI President Hannah Davis said most private universities have an honor code.
Fisher said they are in the brainstorming process. He said they still need to meet with Dean of Students Bruce Pitman to see what his thoughts are and if he has any ideas for the code.
“I know that the dean’s office along with other people among student affairs are updating our code of conduct, and I don’t know if there is an honor code within that, but I think that the concept behind the honor code is about holding each other more accountable,” Davis said.
Fisher said the new code will have to do with morals and academics, modeled after other institutions’ honor codes.
“I hope it is a guiding principle and statement that students can live by. Something that they can be reminded of when they’re questioning if this is the right thing to do or just something to guide them along,” Fisher said.
The goal is to be done by this semester and to propose the code to ASUI next semester.
“If the need was out there and people want that idea and we don’t have it, I would fully support it and help those students that came and approached me and start one up,” Davis said. “ASUI would definitely support that.”
Fisher and Davis said they were unsure why UI doesn’t already have an honor code, but are eager to create one for the years to come.
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