Faculty Senate to meet Thursday
Richard Saller, dean of the School of Humanities and Sciences, will present a report on the school. A panel of faculty, staff and students will talk about the Honor Code.
The Faculty Senate will convene Thursday for the second meeting of winter quarter.
The senate will hear a report on the School of Humanities and Sciences by Richard Saller, dean of the school and the Kleinheinz Family Professor of European Studies.
The School of Humanities and Sciences has more than 50 departments and interdisciplinary degree programs that span the humanities, arts, languages and literatures, social sciences, mathematics, and the physical and life sciences.
The senate also will hear a discussion about the university's Honor Code, presented by panelists Eric Roberts, professor of computer science; Christine Griffith, associate vice provost for student affairs; Sunil Kumar, senior associate dean for academic affairs in the Graduate School of Business; Eric Osborne, the law representative of the Graduate Student Council; and Varun Sivaram, chair of the Undergraduate Senate.
According to Stanford's Office of Judicial Affairs, in recent years, most student disciplinary cases have involved Honor Code violations; of these, the most frequent arise when a student submits another's work as his or her own, or gives or receives unpermitted aid.
The senate will meet at 3:15 p.m. in Room 180 of the Law School. Discussion is limited to members of the senate, but members of the Stanford community may request to attend the meeting by contacting the Academic Secretary's Office at 723-4992 or Trish Del Pozzo at delpozzo@stanford.edu.
The senate's Steering Committee will meet in administrative session from 2:05 to 3 p.m. Thursday in Room 180 of the Law School.
The Steering Committee is expected to take action on a variety of recommendations, including proposals to renew the nominating authority for Honors in Education in the School of Education for five years; extend the degree-nominating authority of the Interdisciplinary Program in Earth Systems for one year; and renew the degree-nominating authority of the Interdisciplinary Programs in Comparative Studies in Race and Ethnicity, Chicana/o Studies, Native American Studies and Asian American Studies for five years.