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Students, faculty, and teaching staff react to first midterms under mandatory proctoring policy

Students, faculty, and teaching staff react to first midterms under mandatory proctoring policy

Abby Gober and Joann Kim
Daily Princetonian 

For the first time since 1893, Princeton students took all of their in-person midterm examinations with proctors present. Following the spring faculty vote that upended the University’s 133-year-old precedent set by the Honor Code, this semester’s examinations marked the official return to mandated proctoring.

The change to proctoring was implemented amid growing concerns over the advancement of generative AI and personal electronic devices and how they can make cheating more accessible and less obvious. Students and professors alike expressed their mixed opinions about this shift and its future implications.

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