Our Mission
CSSC strives to ENGAGE students in an equitable process centered on the values of honesty, integrity, and respect. Students are encouraged to REFLECT on their actions to understand their impact on the community, and to DEVELOP an understanding of their decisions to work toward success.
Our Core services
- Investigate and adjudicate violations of the Student Conduct Code.
- Promote student accountability through cultivating responsible, ethical behavior of the individual student.
- Collaborate with student leaders, student organizations, student government, and local neighborhood associations to advance students’ understanding of their role as members of the greater community. Ensure that students are knowledgeable about what it means to be responsible citizens.
- Provide leadership and consultation to other units, schools, colleges, and departments in working with students of concern and offer resources and support.
- Process disciplinary checks and Dean’s Certifications for students who are transferring to different institutions, planning on traveling abroad, or applying for graduate programs.
Our Values
Integrity
Community Standards & Student Conduct (CSSC) strives to provide an honest process that ensures student rights are upheld. Through the Student Conduct Code we hold our students to the highest standards of ethics and integrity. The process is intended to hold students accountable while developing students holistically.
Responsibility
Through the student conduct process, CSSC helps students gain a greater awareness of self and develop a sense of purpose and civic responsibility. While cultivating responsible and ethical behavior, CSSC creates a community of mutual respect among students, faculty, staff, and off-campus partners.
Equity & Fairness
CSSC acknowledges that social inequities impact our students. We work to balance this understanding with efforts to execute a process in a consistent and thoughtful manner. When these are in conflict, we strive to honor the experiences of students and seek an outcome that helps students involved be successful.
Excellence
CSSC provides a quality experience for campus and community partners who interact with the office. We are committed to using best practices to inform our work and assessment to improve the student conduct process.
Collaboration
CSSC partners with students, faculty, staff, and community members to collectively make the University community a positive learning environment. By supporting students holistically, we work to ensure that they can partner with our staff to seek fair and equitable outcomes.
Respect
CSSC staff understands that our students, staff, and faculty have individual experiences, knowledge, and inherent human dignity. We value what is shared and work to honor those experiences while holding students accountable. We provide opportunities for students to learn about and understand the multiplicity of others’ experiences thoughtfully and respectfully.
Compassion
CSSC honors the challenges that students experience. We strive to ensure that students feel empathy, care, and support for their success and growth. CSSC is thoughtful and caring in our interactions with colleagues and the campus community.