Our Mission

We educate students by providing compassionate, fair, and equitable accountability through processes that provide students with agency and responsibility.

To accomplish this mission, we:

• Provide educational programs to maintain the university's community values;
• Promote a living and learning environment respectful of others and one that allows students and faculty members to pursue their educational goals;
• Address behavior that violates our community expectations, using the occasion to engage students in reflective learning to foster their personal development and develop a deeper understanding of the obligations that come with membership in an educational community;
• Where a student’s action has created harm to self, others, or the community, we provide students the opportunity to identify and repair the harm and restore themselves and the community.

Our Values & Guiding Principles

• Each student is an important member of our shared living and learning community.
• The university considers its students to be adults who accept responsibility for their actions and the harm their actions create.
• Students can learn and develop from accepting responsibility for and reflecting on their actions.
• A student's individual actions do not necessarily represent the whole person.
• The community is strengthened when students acknowledge and repair the harm created by their actions.
• Student accountability considers both the needs of the student and the community with the aim of educating the student and turning negative incidents into positive opportunities for growth.
• Members of the university community who are impacted by other students’ actions have an important voice in the resolution of the impact.
• We lead with an ethic of compassionate accountability, which recognizes that accountability is a form of care.
• Living in community, students expect their rights to be respected, and each student has the obligation to mutually respect the rights of others.
• Students’ actions, even unintentionally, can create harm for other members of the community, the student themselves, and/or the overall community; actions that create harm also create obligations to repair the harm.
• The university values maintaining a safe and inclusive environment for all and the right to operate free from significant disruption. In some circumstances, student action can create harm to the university itself.
• On relatively rare occasions, the university community’s interests will be paramount, including the interest in maintaining an environment of integrity that is safe and congruent with the pursuit of its educational objectives.

 Meet Our Team

Gilbert, Dave
Executive Director of Community Values & Connection
Email: [[dmgil2]]

Madson, Josie
Executive Assistant
Email: [[jamadson]]

Boyd, Helen
Graduate Assistant, Student Accountability & Restorative Practices
Email: [[hpboyd]]