What is an honor code? What is a modified honor code?
Under traditional student honor code, students are responsible for academic integrity. Students pledge that their work will be honest, and that they will report misconduct by other students. At honor code schools, exams are unproctored and a student honor council enforces the Code by reviewing suspected violations and imposing sanctions when a violation has occurred. UC Davis adopted its Code of Academic Conduct, which is a modified honor code, only after the UC Davis campus grew to over 10,000 students. When larger classes made a solely student-run system unworkable, the honor code was modified: the UC Davis Code of Academic Conduct provides for shared roles and mutual responsibilities for maintaining academic integrity among students and faculty.
