At UVA’s virtual orientation for international students, Academic Director Elizabeth Wittner framed the Honor Code and academic integrity as products of capitalism and questioned America’s foundational equality. But international students Siddharth and Fan cut through the noise with sharp insights. Siddharth emphasized that academic integrity is really about effort... and genuine learning. Fan highlighted that when students cheat, your relationships are no longer grounded in trust. Their nuanced understanding put Wittner’s politicized narrative to shame — a reminder that students often grasp the soul of academic culture better than the bloated ranks of administrators who now outnumber them.show more

You'll be stunned to see what Elizabeth Wittner looks like...

she should be fired

Capitalism did NOT invent property or accountability and actually it abhors true ownership because it is a system of class subjugation. The "American Revolution" was an elite coup against Britain to preserve slavery and westward genocidal expansion. She need to read Gerald Horne.

Speaking as an alumnus (GSAS 1977), I can say the University of Virginia is a pathetic shadow of what it once was. My kids went elsewhere.

Did she call ICE on them

Wittner = entitled Karen.

This clueless white American who's been placed in a position of responsibility for what was once a great institution of higher learning had to have the word integrity explained to her by foreign students. I am so embarrassed.