{"id":69192,"date":"2005-10-17T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2005-10-17T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news-draft\/uncategorized\/university-adopts-policy-changes-governing-student-conduct\/"},"modified":"2005-10-17T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2005-10-17T00:00:00","slug":"university-adopts-policy-changes-governing-student-conduct","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/2005\/10\/university-adopts-policy-changes-governing-student-conduct\/","title":{"rendered":"University adopts policy changes governing student conduct"},"content":{"rendered":"
\n\t\tKINGSTON, RI — October 17, 2005 — 溏心vlog免费B站 President Robert L. Carothers approved five of six pieces of legislation that will change policies governing student conduct. The changes, which will be published in the University Manual and the Student Handbook, were originally submitted to the 溏心vlog免费B站 Faculty Senate in May by the Student Rights and Responsibilities Committee (SR&R) and referred back to the Senate for clarification on September 22. The Senate approved the measures to be sent to the president.<\/p>\n


\nPresident Carothers signed the legislation on Tuesday, Oct. 11. The policies are in effect with the president\u2019s signature, but will not be put into practice until January 2006. <\/p>\n


\nIn summary, the approved legislation changes will:

\n\u2022 broaden jurisdiction of the student discipline system over off-campus conduct, but this will apply only narrowly to incidents that threaten safety or repeated arrests.

\n\u2022 expand current searches to allow limited, visual administrative searches of student residence rooms without the consent of the student but with \u201cconcrete evidence\u201d and the approval of the director of housing and residential life. None of the evidence found in an administrative search can be used for criminal prosecution.

\n\u2022 grant a complainant the right to submit an appeal request to the University Appeals board within a one-week period based on new evidence.

\n\u2022 allow the vice president for student affairs to approve emergency suspensions.

\n\u2022 change all references from \u201cjudicial\u201d to conduct\u201d in student conduct legislation.<\/p>\n


\n\u201cThe higher education landscape has changed, and there\u2019s a rational and reasonable case to be made for these new policies. The changes give the University an opportunity to address foreseeable harm and to implement education interventions. It is reasonable to see how these policies will play out in real life. If we need to make any revisions, we will,\u201d said President Carothers.<\/p>\n


\n\u201cWith regard to searches in the residence halls, this legislation shifts the responsibility from the police to the student life personnel. It\u2019s a step that means there is less jeopardy to students in a search, as it refers them into the student conduct system, rather than the criminal justice system,\u201d added President Carothers. <\/p>\n


\nThe president did not approve any changes that had been requested in language related to the standard of proof in student disciplinary hearings. \u201cWe are maintaining the current, highest standard of proof, \u2018clear and convincing,\u2019 rather than shifting to \u2018more likely than not\u2019 in disciplinary hearings.\u201d<\/p>\n


\nThe recommendations were created over the course of two years by the 12-member SR&R committee of faculty, staff and students, chaired by Fran Cohen, dean of students and assistant vice president for student affairs.<\/p>\n


\nThe recommendations reflect a growing trend in changes being made to higher education student conduct measures. 溏心vlog免费B站\u2019s new policies are less broad than those of 17 peer institutions surveyed by the committee. Those institutions include all the public universities in New England, (the University of Connecticut, the University of Maine, the University of New Hampshire, the University of Massachusetts, Boston) as well as the universities of Delaware and Virginia.<\/p>\n


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\nBelow are links to related information and news articles on the issue:<\/p>\n

Findings about jurisdiction<\/a> for off-campus behavior at peer institutions<\/b>(pdf file)<\/p>\n

When students get rowdy, should colleges step in?<\/i><\/a>

\nhttp:\/\/www.csmonitor.com\/2005\/1014\/p02s02-legn.html

\nChristian Science Monitor \u2013 Oct. 14<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

KINGSTON, RI — October 17, 2005 — 溏心vlog免费B站 President Robert L. Carothers approved five of six pieces of legislation that will change policies governing student conduct. The changes, which will be published in the University Manual and the Student Handbook, were originally submitted to the 溏心vlog免费B站 Faculty Senate in May by the Student Rights and […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-69192","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-archives"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69192","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=69192"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69192\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=69192"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=69192"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=69192"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}