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Non-Academic Code of Conduct
From the 2006-2007 Student Handbook: (view)
"The discipline system extends and applies the general principles of the Statement of Student Rights and Freedoms within the academic community to specific actions and responsibilities of students and student organizations at the University of South Carolina Aiken. It accepts the proposition that "academic institutions exist for the transmission of knowledge, the pursuit of truth, the development of students, and the general wellbeing of society, and that free inquiry and free expression are indispensable to the attainment of these goals."
As such the University strives to maintain an educational community which fosters the development of students who are ethically sensitive and responsible persons.
The University of South Carolina Aiken strives to protect this educational community and to maintain social discipline among its students. Consistent with its purposes, reasonable efforts will be made to foster the personal and social development of those students who are held accountable for violations of University social regulations.
The purpose of this document is to set forth the specific authority and responsibility of the university in maintaining social discipline, the educational process of determining student and student organization accountability for violating the regulations, and the proper procedural safe-guards to be followed in this process to insure fundamental fairness and protect the students and student organizations from unfair imposition of serious penalties and sanctions.
Students should be aware that educational institutions are not sanctuaries beyond the reach of the criminal laws of the communities and states where in such institutions exist. While the rules and regulations of the University of South Carolina Aiken are not meant to duplicate general laws, there are some aspects in which the lawful interest of the institution as an academic community coincide with the broader public interests treated in general laws. Students who commit offenses against the laws of municipalities, states, or the United States, are subject to prosecution by those authorities and may be subject to disciplinary action under university rules when their conduct violates Institutional standards."
For more information, please view the 2006-2007 Student Handbook. The Non-Academic Code of Conduct is located on pages 21- 32 .
