The newly inaugurated 25th Undergraduate Senate (UGS), met on Tuesday, with a large debate over possible responses to the Faculty Senate’s historic bypass of the previous UGS vote on changes to the Honor Code proposed by the C12.
At its final meeting as the 24th Undergraduate Senate, the UGS continued the transition of power to the next senate and postponed action on the Honor Code.
At its Tuesday meeting, the Undergraduate Senate expressed opposition to the Faculty Senate’s decision to bypass its prior votes against proposed revisions to the Honor Code that would explicitly allow exam proctoring, ending a 102-year long precedent.
The vote come after a years-long process of developing the recommendations to Stanford’s academic integrity and discipline policies in consultation with dozens of student groups, elected student leaders, the deans of Stanford’s seven schools and research on other universities’ policies.