Student Conduct and Integrity

The Code of Student Conduct

The staff of Student Conduct and Integrity have a significant amount of experience coaching students who find themselves involved in conflict. They serve as a resource for assisting students and addressing concerning behavior prior to and after a conduct violation occurs.

The SCI encourages responsible and respectful community behavior, focusing on students’ rights, responsibilities, fairness, honesty, and personal growth. Students are encouraged to embrace the “Sycamore Standard” in how they conduct themselves during their time at Indiana State.

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The Sycamore Standard

All members of Indiana State will learn and apply essential life lessons in the Sycamore Standard, adopted by the Student Government Association in 2002 and adapted by the Policy Review Committee in 2013. The standard is related to self-awareness, communication, civility and respect, integrity, forgiveness, patience, and trust.

As a member of Indiana State, you will promise the following:

• I will practice personal responsibility and academic integrity;
• I will aspire towards truth and learning;
• I will foster an environment conducive to mine and others’ health, wellness, and safety;
• I will avoid acts that promote intolerance of individuals or groups;
• I will conduct myself in a manner that brings honor to me and to the Indiana State community; and
• I will discourage behaviors by others that does not adhere to these standards and expectations of the Code of Student Conduct.

Awareness of the common good leads us to make individual choices in light of how they affect or may affect other people and the Indiana State community as a whole. Accepting certain social conditions allows people, either as groups or individuals, to reach their full holistic development.