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.
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.
The Graduate Student Council (GSC) voted to approve the revised Honor Code proposed by the Committee of 12 and passed the Nominations Commissions (NomCom) Bylaw Changes Bill to promote transparency in committee appointments.
Student members of the Committee of 12 (C12) pitched Honor Code-related proposals to members of the Undergraduate Senate and Graduate Student Council at Thursday’s student stakeholder meeting. The C12 proposal did not include explicit changes to the Honor Code regarding a divisive topic among students proctoring of examinations but did suggest conducting research to study the issue.