Honorable Mention

I believe that Ursinus is a college of suitable caliber to support the use of an honor code. The school strongly encourages personal responsibility and independence, two integral ingredients for having a successful honor code put into practice. If the school enacted an honor code, the students could be held to further standards of independence and would be held even more accountable for their individual successes. For example students could take tests home and complete them in lower stress environments, and the honor code would hold them to standards such as not cheating or using unauthorized aid. The students at Ursinus were selected because of their ability to excel and the school‘s expectations of them being able to learn and grow in the already established community of the school. These capabilities make the students prime subjects to be allowed the use of an honor code. If the code were enacted, there would be very straightforward expectations to meet, and if explained and understood the entire community would be allowed to run even more smoothly than it already does. Using a code would make the lives of students and teachers alike less stressful, and since the students are responsible enough to handle such prospects, I believe that the use of a code would be a positive addition to school policy.