Purpose: When processing honor cases, the Honor Committee and its support officers act on behalf of the community of trust to protect its interest in maintaining the ideal of honorable behavior. The Committee must balance its commitment to the community with its responsibility to ensure that all of its actions are fair to those students whose conduct is in question. The Honor Committee's procedures help the Committee achieve this important balance.

The Honor System process is divided into four stages: reporting initiation, investigation, trial, and post-trial. The entire process should be conducted in a timely manner. For that reason, timelines have been built into the System which regulate various procedures. In general, however, the Honor Committee suspends all procedures during non-school days. School days are days when the College of Arts & Sciences is officially in session during the Fall and Spring semesters, but not during summer session. School days include weekends between class days but do not include any registration or examination periods, breaks or holidays. Notwithstanding the general suspension of Honor Committee procedures during non-school days, where a case is reported initiated toward the end of a semester and case investigators have not had an opportunity to interview the investigated student prior to the end of such semester, the advisor for the investigated student will attempt to notify such student of the nature of the investigation as soon as reasonably possible following the end of such semester.This attempt at early notification will occur only for investigations that span recesses in order to allow for the opportunity to preserve pertinent evidence whenever possible. The entire process will be conducted in accordance with the most recent by-laws as of the date of a reporting initiation. (Language modified, October 16, 2005)