Barefoot on Honor
Feb 22 2008 - 2:13pm
Coy Barefoot, the Director of Communications and Alumni Relations at the Sorensen Institute, has published the first comprehensive history of the Honor System at the University of Virginia.
Barefoot, the author of The Corner: A History of Student Life at the University of Virginia, published the Honor System study in the current edition of Virginia Magazine.
The article includes a complete timeline of honor at Virginia in addition to an online video hosted by Barefoot. The article points out that, contrary to a widely held belief, the UVa Honor System was not created as the result of the murder of a professor by a student in 1840—but was rather simply the result of an effort on the part of the faculty to curb cheating on exams.
Click here to access Barefoot's history of the UVA Honor System.
