In an effort to aid in students’ success, Kate Law and staff in the Office of the Dean of Students updated the Student Code of Conduct (Policy 2020) to improve clarity and comprehension. The Code of Conduct reinforces goals that support a thriving community and ensures equitable processes to students navigating the conduct process.
An extensive review, including incorporation of stakeholder feedback resulted in modernization of language focused on:
- Increasing students’ educational access and success by adding Universally Designed accessibility diagrams and simpler, clearer language;
- Reducing navigational capital required for students to be successful by adding clearer and more chronological chapter titles and subheadings;
- Fostering thriving communities by describing more clearly what behavior is and is not aligned with being a Bronco, and further clarifying how the Code is a tool for student-learning about decision-making to promote behavior change.
Highlights for faculty, department chairs, and other academic leaders include:
More clearly-defined processes for faculty members in the newly-renamed “Section 7: Academic Misconduct Complaints, Violations, Processes, and Sanctions;”
- Clearer options in that chapter for tailoring your response to your student’s misconduct in the way you see as most developmental, as the educator;
- The permanent incorporation in the Code of the one-page Faculty Guide to Handling Potential Academic Misconduct;
- The one-page Suggested Conversation Guide: Asking Your Student About Potential Plagiarism or Cheating, and visual diagrams of a faculty member’s process and their student’s appeal process.
No changes to the academic misconduct process as previously written, or as described in the Office of the Provost’s partner policy, Faculty Responsibility to Address Student Academic Misconduct (Policy 4180).
You can find the Student Code of Conduct on the Policy Manual website. If you have further questions, please don’t hesitate to reach out to the Students’ Rights & Responsibilities team at srr@boisestate.edu, or email Assistant Dean of Students Kate Law directly at katelaw@boisestate.edu.