Aggie Honor System Office
It is the mission of the Aggie Honor System Office to serve as a centralized organization established to educate students, faculty, and staff about the Aggie Code of Honor, respond to potential academic misconduct by Texas A&M students, and facilitate remediation efforts for students found responsible for violations of the Aggie Code of Honor.
The Aggie Honor System Office was created in 2004 with the following defined roles and functions:
- The AHSO shall administer the Texas A&M University Honor System.
- The AHSO shall have the authority to create processes and operating procedures to implement the Honor System and to enforce the rules described in the following sections.
- The AHSO shall be the central office responsible for maintaining records and for coordinating communication, prevention, training, remediation, and adjudication efforts for the Texas A&M University Honor System.
- Additionally, it shall provide assistance to members of the university community when questions or concerns arise pertaining to academic misconduct.
- Finally, it shall oversee the operations and functioning of the Honor Council, a body of students and faculty established to hear and adjudicate honor cases.
The Aggie Honor System Office is charged with upholding the Aggie Code of Honor and Student Rule 20. This rule defines the AHSO’s structure, responsibilities, procedures, academic misconduct definitions, and the Aggie Honor Council.
See Student Rule 20 in its entirety here.
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