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Honor Board

We maintain and enforce Knox’s Honor Code.

Students not only developed the Honor Code, they also enforce it! The Honor Board consists of 16 students — seven seniors, six juniors, and three sophomores — as well as three faculty members and a dedicated advisor.

You'll find that students and faculty are committed to a community where trust and honesty are regarded with the utmost seriousness. Violations such as plagiarism and cheating are taken before the Honor Board.

The Honor Board's responsibilities include:

  • Investigating all formal reports of the suspected violation
  • Determining guilt or innocence of the person(s) involved
  • Specifying a punishment ranging from a failing grade to dismissal from the College

 

Honor Board Members (2026-27)

Each spring, the Honor Board Selection Committee appoints at least three first-year students to replace the outgoing senior members. In addition, the Faculty Executive Committee, in consultation with the Honor Board, appoints one faculty to replace the outgoing member. All appointments last for three years. Current board members include:

Executive Members

  • May Phan, (co-chair), senior member
  • Qasim Kazmi, (co-chair), junior member 

  • Jubilee Close, (secretary), senior member

Associate Members

  • Rohan Fozdar, senior member
  • Daeun Kim, senior member
  • Elena King, senior member
  • Emma Sineath, senior member
  • Jonealya Wells-Mohn, senior member

  • Vishnupriya Acharya, junior member
  • Alivia Davis, junior member
  • Gilian Falco, junior member
  • Catalina Kim, junior member
  • Cynthia Kosteck, junior member

  • Rolen Edison, sophomore member
  • Eva Schantz, sophomore member
  • Danny Schiffer, sophomore member

Faculty Members

  • Barbara Tannert-Smith, faculty member (chair)
  • Thomas Clayton, faculty member 
  • Dan Wack, faculty member

Advisor to the Honor Board

  • Ole J. Forsberg, ADFA

  

If you're in good academic standing, you may apply for a board position for your class (determined by graduation date). Students with any prior Honor Board convictions may apply but must address in the application how they regard those convictions in light of a possible appointment to the Board. The Honor Board Selection Committee then reviews all applications, invites each candidate to interview for the open positions, and makes its final selections. The committee also designates which selected students will be future co-chairs.

 

Honor Board Education Committee

Members of the Honor Board also form the Honor Board Education Committee. The primary responsibility of the committee is to work with the appropriate administrative officers, faculty members, and student organizations to increase community awareness of the Honor Code's purpose, policies, and procedures.

Link to: More information on the Knox College Honor System