Meet the Academic Honor Council

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Academic Honor Council Information

2024-2025 Academic Honor Council:

Kira Tippit (kmt14@stmarys-ca.edu) and Christopher Keyler (cjk18@tsmayrs-ca.edu), student co-chairs

Professor Zach Flanagin, faculty advisor: dflanagi@stmarys-ca.edu, 925-631-8152

Interested in becoming a member of the Academic Honor Council? Contact the co-chairs or the Academic Honor Council Coordinator here: ahc@stmarys-ca.edu!

The highly collaborative council consists of 40+ diverse faculty and student members who engage in inclusive and interactive outreach programming, unbiased adjudication process, and restorative educational sanctioning practices for students who violate the SMC Academic Honor Code. The council creates and maintains a campus climate in which academic integrity and responsible research practices are fostered and embraced.

What We Do

From speaking to students and faculty to holding review boards, the Academic Honor Council works to uphold integrity within the SMC academic community.

The diverse Academic Honor Council performs many services on the SMC Campus such as:

Working closely with the College's administration and faculty to promote academic integrity
Reviewing and revising the Academic Honor Code
Providing innovative interactive workshops for all First Year Academic Cohorts (FYAC) and first year/transfer Collegiate Seminar classes about academic integrity, honor code compliance, and Gael traditions
Reviewing all cases of alleged honor code violations through unbiased and fair adjudication process
Facilitating restorative educational Integrity Seminars for peers found in violation of the Academic Honor Code
And many more...