It is crucial that we learn about these concepts [integrity, character, and ethics] here [at the University of Maryland], where the system is geared towards helping us become better students and better people. After college, you don't get a second chance and the law isn't trying to help you as much as it is trying to contain you.
Mike Warley
Sophomore, Environmental Science & Policy
USJ Community Advocate, Mock Trial, Primannum Honor Society
I've learned that it is not always good to make a 'wrong decision' if you think no one will know because you can be found out and have to live with that decision for the rest of [your] academic career or life.
Integrity, character, and ethics are important because they show “students that it’s ok not to do what other do if it is wrong because then you could be messing up your life by that one decision.
Leticia Rivera
Sophomore, Government & Politics Major
USJ Community Advocate
Integrity, character, and ethics are important because they are learning experiences that will help shape our future values as parents, professionals, and citizens. The force us to think critically and ethically through every action e carry out.
Thibaut Tchinda
Junior, Criminology Major
USJ Community Advocate
I've learned how integrity, character, [and ethics] (ICE) all comes into play in my life as a UMD undergraduate student. I learned that you cannot have one without the other, for example, you can be a nice and upstanding citizen with good character, but if you cheat your way through class you lose your sense of ethics and integrity and so your character will come into question.
Integrity, character, and ethics are important for college students to have so they will not fall to pressure to become academically dishonest and also in order to utilize these personal characteristics into the real world work force in order to be an effective employee.
Rexannah Wyse
Junior, Criminology Major
USJ Education Team, Scholars Ambassadors
