Student Code of Conduct

Policy Number: 600-001 Student Life

Policy Title: Student Code of Conduct

Responsible Officers: Vice President for Student Affairs, Associate Vice President for Student Affairs or Designee, and Director of Student Conduct & Community Standards

Responsible Office: Office of Student Conduct & Community Standards

Effective Date: April 17, 2015 (Approved by the Board of Trustees); August 2020, September 2022, August 2023 - Conforming Amendments

Next Review Date:  August 2025

Summary:  Howard University affirms that the central purpose of a university is the pursuit of truth, the discovery of new knowledge through scholarly research, the teaching and overall development of students, and the transmission of knowledge and learning to the world at large. However, the establishment and maintenance of a community where there is freedom to teach and to learn is dependent on maintaining an appropriate sense of order that allows for the pursuit of these objectives in an environment that is both safe and free of invidious disruption. Rules and regulations are necessary to mark the boundaries of this needed order. However, the rights of the individual demand that honesty, integrity, responsibility, and respect for persons and property must form the core values upon which those rules and regulations are based. All members of the University community share a mutual responsibility to practice the values that inform the rules and regulations.

Keywords: rights, freedoms, responsibilities, conduct, guidance, disciplinary action, ethics, FERPA, alcohol, drugs  See also: Student Privacy Rights Policy, Policy Prohibiting Sex and Gender-Based Discrimination, Sexual Misconduct and Retaliation (Title IX), Alcohol and Drug Prevention Policy and The Bison Safe App