Goals
In partnership with the faculty, staff, and students at IUP, the Office of Student Conduct's staff is committed to pursuing the following goals:
- To educate the university community through the development, dissemination, interpretation, and enforcement of university policies and regulations
- To hold individuals, students, and recognized student organizations accountable for behaviors and/or actions when policies and regulations are violated
- To protect the legal rights of students while promoting civility, openness, and justice
- To teach appropriate individual and organizational behavior while minimizing disruption and harm in the university community
- To promote a campus environment that fosters intellectual, social, and ethical development of its students
- To serve as a resource to university constituents in addressing behavioral concerns presented by individual students and recognized student organizations
- To coordinate university communication in response to severe student injury or death
Fundamental Beliefs
Staff members in the Office of Student Conduct demonstrate these fundamental beliefs while fulfilling their respective responsibilities:
- Each student and recognized student organization deserves individual attention, consideration, and respect.
- Each student and recognized student organization is held accountable to a high standard of behavior in order to positively impact the quality of university life and to promote growth, development, and civility.
- Each student is a citizen of the Indiana community and is responsible for behavior violations that occur regardless of location (i.e., on campus or in the local community).
- Implementation of due process requirements is essential to the legal, ethical, and fair resolution of disciplinary matters.
- Human dignity and integrity are affirmed through demonstration of respect, compassion, understanding, and appropriate humor.
