UVA community service and honor system are merely pathetic jokes in 2025
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Anonymous
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UVA once had a robust honor system, which did not tolerate cheating or plagiarism. UVA also used to adhere to students fulfilling service hours to graduate.
No longer the case: https://jeffersoncouncil.org/news/the-trivialization-of-honor Will anything save this once great university from falling further each year? |
Anonymous
| What was the Morgan Bettinger speed bumps comment? |
Anonymous
| Yawn. Troll harder, OP. |
Anonymous
I don’t see why a public university would require service hours. My kid goes to UVA and actually does service through Madison House but that is because she wants to. |
Anonymous
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The Honor System was largely dead when I attended a couple of decades ago. It was an Honor System in name only.
Several faculty commented when I was in grad school that any cheating case they filed went nowhere, so they would just record an F if they became aware of cheating. One prof once threatened a student with an obscure tool called "Forced Disenrollment". (I did both my undergrad and grad degrees there.). There was a large UVa scandal a while aback about widespread cheating, on a Physics test I think not sure. Honor system "advocates" will now appear on DCUM and vocally disagree, but their words do not change the reality on the ground. |
Anonymous
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Linking to Jefferson Council means you are grasping.
They are old alumni who want a UVA that doesn’t exist anymore. |
Anonymous
| What year were there mandatory service hours to graduate? |
Anonymous
+1 absolute angry dinosaurs |
Anonymous
| Honor is gone everywhere. Students are just using ChatGPT, even the best ones. |
Anonymous
UVA is still a great university. Virginia residents are very lucky to have such great in-state options. |
Anonymous
| The honor code's meaninglessness has been known for years now. There are endless posts on the r/uva subreddit about cheating, honor code not being taken seriously, etc. But this isn't necessarily unique to UVA. Yes, cheating is rampant at UVA, but cheating is rampant pretty much everywhere. |
Anonymous
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I was on the UVA Honor Committee in the 90s. It was a student government experience, but even then, because of the litigious nature of the US, the honor code doesn’t hold much weight as it may have in the Edgar Alan Poe era of UVA.
Google the Christopher Leggett case. Basically, he was kicked out of the university for violating the honor code, but his family sued the university and said he wasn’t given due process in his trial. The Board of Visitors pressured us to reinstate him and we did. |
Anonymous
Unlikely, will take a strong new leader several years to set the school on the right path. With the governorship looking to rotate between democrats and republicans for some time to come there will be too much turnover and bouncing back and forth on goals and priorities to see any real forward progress. |
Anonymous
The thing is there is such a wide spectrum of ways to use ChatGPT and it is so easy to slip from something that is fine ("can you suggest five journal articles for me to read about XYZ topic") to something that is cheating. |
Anonymous
UVA's honor system has always been incredibly problematic. This isn't anything new. |