Student Conduct and Community Standards

The Director of Community Standards serves as the chief student conduct officer for the University and leads efforts related to Elmhurst’s Community Standards. This includes editing and enforcing the University’s Student Handbook, which contains student and campus life policies. The Director of Community Standards receives and reviews reported policy violations, which includes student conduct policy violations, academic integrity violations, bias incidents, and threat assessment incidents, and resolves reports through educational letters, acceptance of responsibility letters, or administrative hearings. The student conduct process is meant to be primarily educational and restorative by providing opportunities for students to reflect on their behavior, identify strategies to make better decisions in the future, and engage with the campus in positive ways.

Students are expected to engage in responsible conduct that reflects positively upon the University community and reflects good citizenship in the broader community. The University attempts to establish a climate that encourages ethical decision-making and student responsibility for individual and collective actions in an effort to maintain a safe and inclusive campus community. As such, students are expected to observe what is going on around them and respond to the best of their ability, which may include notifying University officials to influence a better outcome. Similarly, students are expected to report potential policy violations to the appropriate authorities, such as Community Standards, Public Safety, Housing and Residence Life, etc., either in person or through electronic reporting forms available at elmhurst.edu/IncidentReport.

Please see the Student Handbook for further information and all policies and procedures pertaining to student conduct.