The Santa Monica College Honor Council has been created to oversee our Honor Code
and has the following responsibilities and authority:
- To advise and confer with faculty members, administrators, staff, and students on
matters pertaining to academic integrity;
- To create and conduct educational programming designed to promote academic integrity;
- To establish operational procedures in consultation with the Joint Academic Senate
Student Affairs Committee and the supervising administrator;
- To collect and disseminate statistics pertaining to Honor Code violations;
- To issue an annual report to the Joint Academic Senate Student Affairs Committee and
campus community on academic integrity standards, policies, and procedures, including
recommendations for appropriate changes.
- Other responsibilities as agreed upon with the Joint Academic Senate Student Affairs
Committee.
- To uphold students accused of violating the Honor Code rights to due process via the
implementation of an Honor Council Hearing Board.
- The Honor Code relies upon the definitions of academic dishonest behaviors stipulated
in Administrative Regulation 4411-Code of Academic Conduct-Section 3.
- To appoint from its members three faculty and three students to an Honor Council Hearing Board to adjudicate cases of alleged violations of the Honor Code. The Hearing Board will be chaired by an academic administrator appointed by the Superintendent/ President (or designee).