University policies and procedures at ÐÇ¿Õ´«Ã½ create a safe and supportive environment for all people, regardless of class, ethnicity, religion, or sexual orientation.
All university students enrolled at ÐÇ¿Õ´«Ã½ are expected to become familiar with these policies and procedures. We have a right to exercise disciplinary action in cases where students violate the law or the university code of conduct. We do this to protect the rights and responsibilities of our community and the reputation of our institution.
We encourage the community to engage with one another in a respectful manner. We hold all students, staff, and faculty accountable for their actions, and we understand the implicit responsibilities of our interactions on campus and within our community.
- Alcohol Use Policy
- Anti-Hazing Policy
- Campus and Resources
- Discrimination Policy
- Drug-Free School Notification
- Freedom of Expression Policy
- Emergency Withdrawal and Return to Campus Policy
- Medical Amnesty Policy
- Missing Student Notification Policy
- Record Retention
- Safety, Security and Emergencies
- Students with Disabilities
- Tobacco-Free Policy
Statement of Ethics
Universities seek to preserve, disseminate and advance knowledge. At ÐÇ¿Õ´«Ã½, as elsewhere, we recognize that to fulfill these purposes requires a norm of expected conduct shared by all in the University community, governed by truthfulness, openness to new ideas, and consideration for the individual rights of others, including the right to hold and express opinions different from our own.
The university's mission rests on the premise of intellectual honesty: in the classroom, the laboratory, the office, and the solitary examination desk. Without a prevailing ethic of honor and integrity not only in scientific pursuits but also in all scholarly activity, the very search for knowledge is impaired. In these respects, each of us -- especially but not exclusively faculty -- must regard oneself as a mentor for others.
These principles we strive to uphold make it possible for the larger society to place trust in the degrees we confer, the research we produce, the scholarship we represent and disseminate, and the critical assessments we make of the performance of students and faculty, as well as judgments of staff and administrators.
To safeguard the standards on which we all depend, each of us must therefore accept individual responsibility for our behavior and our work, and refrain from taking credit for the work of others.
The culture of a university also requires that the rights of all be protected, particularly by those entrusted with authority for judgment of the work of others.
The university being a human community is subject to human failings, ambiguities and errors. It is therefore the responsibility of the bodies regulating the affairs of faculty, students, and staff to maintain processes for judging and resolving instances where these principles may have been violated. However, all such systems depend for their effectiveness, in turn, on the acceptance of common norms of contact -- the ties of trust which bind the university community together.