2013-14 Student Handbook Introduction This Handbook includes information which should be useful to you as you proceed toward reaching your goals. We hope you will pay particular attention to the general policies which are designed to help you. There are many programs and services offered, so please keep in mind that our primary interest is your success and Jamestown College’s tradition. Jamestown College is a community. Such a community offers an environment that allows individuals to develop their full potential. To that end, the College has created a set of standards regarding personal conduct within this community. Personal responsibility and respect for others are the key values underlying these standards. Teaching students to accept responsibility for their behavior and to respect the rights of others is a high priority for our College community. The college holds the belief that students become more productive when they have adopted these values. One of our responsibilities is to challenge behavior that violate the rights of others or which violate the laws of the larger society. By holding each student to a high standard of behavior, we both protect the campus community and promote the moral and ethical development of students. In doing so, we also have an obligation to regard each student as an individual, deserving individual attention, consideration and respect. There are times when the College must exercise its responsibility to the community by suspending or expelling a student who has violated the Jamestown College Standards of Conduct. Behavior which is prohibited by these standards is outlined in this Handbook. These standards arise from the key values of personal responsibility and respect for others. By presenting these to you, we hope to begin a process which will lead to your support of the guidelines and the values upon which they are based. We believe that the educational focus of our institution will be served best by a serious commitment to helping students develop responsible personal attitudes and
behavior. We feel it is our responsibility to establish behavioral guidelines which are stated clearly and to define the consequences for those acts outside these guidelines. We intend to fulfill this goal by making these guidelines and consequences well known to all members of our community. It is our hope that the response to these expectations will be a positive one which enables our community to better achieve its educational mission and to affirm the wholeness of that mission, inside and outside of the classroom. Interpretation College policy is continually being reexamined to reflect the needs and values of the community. As such, the college reserves the right to modify or cancel any statement in the student handbook at any time, and such changes may not be immediately reflected in this online publication. Student conduct regulations at the College are set forth in writing in order to give students general notice of prohibited conduct.
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Nondiscrimination Statement Jamestown College is committed to fostering an atmosphere that is respectful and cooperative, and which promotes equal opportunity. Jamestown College prohibits unlawful discrimination and/or harassment in the College environment, in its employment, and in all of its programs, including: all academic, extra-curricular, and College-sponsored activities whether off or on campus. Jamestown College is committed to ensuring an environment free from all discrimination and/or harassment based on race, color, national origin, gender, disability, sexual orientation, or other status with respect to which discrimination would be unlawful. Prohibited behaviors include: disrespectful and offensive behavior, unwelcome remarks and/or physical conduct that denigrates or shows hostility or aversion toward an individual’s race, color, national origin, gender, disability, sexual orientation, or other status with respect to which discrimination would be unlawful.