Core Values
Honesty
An academic community of integrity advances the quest for truth and knowledge by requiring intellectual and personal honesty in learning, teaching, research, activities, and service. Cultivating honesty lays the foundation for lifelong integrity, developing the courage and insight to make difficult choices and accept responsibility for actions and their consequences, even at personal cost.
Trust
An academic community of integrity fosters a climate of mutual trust, encourages the free exchange of ideas, and enables all to reach their highest potential. Only with trust can members of the University community believe in and rely on others and move forward as a community. Only with trust can the community believe in the social value and meaning of an institution’s scholarship and degrees.
Fairness
An academic community of integrity establishes clear standards, practices, and procedures and expects fairness in the interactions of students, groups/organizations, faculty, and staff. For students and groups/organizations, important components of fairness are predictability, clear expectations, and a consistent and just response to dishonesty. Faculty and staff also have a right to expect fair treatment from students and from colleagues.
Respect
An academic community of integrity recognizes the participatory nature of the learning process and honors and respects a wide range of opinions, ideas, and cultures.
Responsibility
An academic community of integrity upholds accountability and depends upon action in the face of wrongdoing. Every member of an academic community—student, group/organization, faculty member, and staff—is responsible for upholding the integrity of the community.
Adapted from the Center for Academic Integrity's Fundamental Principles project, 2000.
Campus Policy
The Dean of Students Office in the Division of Student Affairs is responsible for administering the University’s policies and procedures regarding student conduct. Under the Student Code of Conduct, hate crimes fall under the value of Respect.
1. Violations of Respect include:
Threatening or causing physical harm or harassment; hazing; facilitating or accepting improper behavior; non-consensual sexual acts; conduct which disturbs the peace of the community; trespass or misuse of restricted areas; conduct which is disorderly; trespass upon University property or premises; infringement on the rights or property of members of the University community; failure to comply with directions of University officials; any act or omission that an ordinary, reasonable, intelligent college student knows, or should know, infringes on the rights or property of members of the University community. Lack of intent or knowledge may be a mitigating factor in determining sanctions but does not excuse harm to person or property.
2. Sanctions for minor violations of Respect under the Code may include penalties ranging from warning to probationary status with restrictions.
Sanctions for major violations of Respect under the Code may include penalties ranging from warning with restrictions to expulsion from the University.