The Faculty Senate and VPSA's lack of transparency around nominations to the Academic Integrity Working Group harms student interests, Strawser writes.
The Faculty Senate broke from a 102-year precedent of shared governance at Stanford last month by passing a motion to allow exam proctoring. The Undergraduate Senate will vote on Tuesday on a set of proposals by the Committee of 12, which could supersede the Faculty Senate’s motion while temporarily permitting proctoring strictly for research purposes; if these proposals fail, the Faculty Senate’s proctoring motion will be enacted in the fall.
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.
The charter will apply to all student discipline cases filed with the Office of Community Standards on or after May 2, while any case filed before then will continue to be processed under the Student Judicial Charter of 1997. According to the Committee of 12, which researched student discipline at Stanford in recent years and proposed the charter, the new charter has multiple tiers and includes fewer instances of criminalistic language.