Standards of Conduct

Colorado Christian University is committed to creating and maintaining an environment where individual and institutional responsibility combine to promote each student’s complete life. In order for the University to achieve this goal within an atmosphere where the rights of its members are respected, it is necessary to establish policies and procedures. These regulations have been developed to reflect the nature of a student community and the situations inherent in it. Every member of the University community is provided equal rights and benefits in accordance with the expectation that each student has maturity, intelligence, and concern for the rights of others. Only when a person demonstrates a lack of cooperation and consideration does the University, acting through its officials and judiciary bodies, take some type of disciplinary action. Behavior, whether attempted or committed, judged to be disruptive to the community atmosphere, cannot be tolerated.

Students are asked to assume positions of responsibility in the University judicial system, as described later in this section, so they can contribute their skills and insights to the resolution of disciplinary cases. Final authority for disciplinary matters, however, is vested in the University administration, the University president and his designees, by the University Board of Trustees. Under this authority, the dean of students, or his designee, can assign the adjudication of cases to the Student Judicial Board, or administrative hearing officers, at his discretion.

It is the intention of this code to clarify the standards of behavior essential to the University’s educational mission and it’s community life. The standards of conduct are applicable to all traditional College of Undergraduate Students, School of Professional Studies students, master’s degree program students, and students attending CCU programs at other campuses around Colorado, as well as their guests that visit the campus.