Honor

When you come to Presbyterian College, the Honor System under which you will live is one that your classmates direct and the entire community lives by as well.

It starts with the signing of the Honor Code at opening convocation by new students, faculty and staff. It continues when you realize that you can take a test without a proctor, forget your belongings and find them where you left them, and know that the people around you treat each other with respect.

Sometimes it's hard. No one likes to see a classmate break the code: the responsibility to do something comes with that knowledge. When you know, though, that ignoring the problem put those very values of trust, integrity, honesty, and community at risk for everyone, you know you'll handle it as you should.

The world outside of college may be a very different place. You can change that when you take the honor code with you. PC alumni have always done that, and their communities become better because of it.

Honor. Not a complicated word, just an essential part of who you are and how you want to live.