The ÃÛÌÒµ¼º½ community is dedicated to the promotion of values consistent with academic and personal excellence. Choosing to join this community evidences your acceptance of these values.
As a member of this community, I will practice personal and academic integrity.
Living this value looks like:
- Being a “person of conscience,” who acts ethically, and whose decisions reflect moral sensitivity, judgment, commitment, and courage
- Showing consistency in my beliefs, my words, and my actions personally and professionally
- Being honest, responsible, and accountable in my scholarly activities, making course work my top priority, and taking credit only for my own work
- Accepting responsibility for my own actions and holding others accountable for their actions
Living this value is inconsistent with:
- Failing to take responsibility for my behavior
- Engaging in dishonest behavior such as cheating or falsifying information
- Tampering with data systems or computer networks
As a member of this community, I will respect and care for myself, others, and their property.
Living this value looks like:
- Maintaining my health in mind, body, spirit, and soul
- Treating other people and the environment with dignity, as I expect to be treated
- Being a “person of compassion,” who stands with others in their need and takes action to help build a more just and humane world
- Recognizing and actively protecting the property rights of others in my apartment, neighborhood, residence hall, on campus, and in the surrounding community
Living this value is inconsistent with:
- Behaving in ways that cause others emotional distress, threaten or discourage the freedom, personal safety, and respect that all individuals deserve
- Hurting myself and others through the use or distribution of drugs or alcohol
- Creating a dangerous environment by tampering with safety equipment or smoke detectors
As a member of this community, I will value diversity and learn from diverse people, ideas, and situations.
Living this value looks like:
- Understanding that differences in gender, socioeconomic status, ethnic background, race, culture, religion, sexuality, physical abilities, and other differences are rich opportunities for learning about other people, the world, and myself
- Working to understand and overcome personal, institutional, and societal biases, injustices, prejudices, and stereotyping
- Being fair, assigning benefits and burdens to people according to consistent, equitable, and just criteria
Living this value is inconsistent with:
- Harassing or threatening other members of the community
- Using degrading language toward any person or members of a specific group
- Arguing or hampering my community’s right to the communication of ideas and ideals just because they don’t represent my own
- Validating unequal behavior toward a person because of gender, socioeconomic status, ethnic background, race, culture, religion, sexuality, physical abilities, and/or other differences
As a member of this community, I will seek, share, and contribute to the common good.
Living this value looks like:
- Basing my actions on the belief that my own good is inextricably bound to the good of the whole community
- Contributing my talents and participating fully in the life and events of the community
- Engaging in the open dialogue and deep communication necessary to create a real rather than a “pretend” community
- Showing careful stewardship of common space, property, and equipment
Living this value is inconsistent with:
- Not conveying respect and responsibility for my University community • Resisting learning about the perspectives shared by other community members
- Engaging in selfish or inconsiderate behavior
As a member of this community, I will be a leader-in-service to the campus and greater community beyond campus.
Living this value looks like:
- Seeking to understand not only “what is” but “what should be” and working actively to bring that about
- Making no decision without considering its effects on people who are poor, in need, and with the fewest resources
- Consistently role-modeling behavior reflective of the three Cs (Competence, Conscience, and Compassion)
Living this value is inconsistent with:
- Not valuing the efforts of community service activities
- Perceiving leadership as someone else’s responsibility to the campus and outside community