2023-24 Student Handbook
TABLE OF CONTENTS
MISSION STATEMENT OF BLUFFTON UNIVERSITY
COMMUNITY OF RESPECT AND OBJECTIVES
STANDARDS OF CONDUCT
- Expectations, standards and policies
- Alcohol policy
- Drugs and controlled substances policy
- Smoking and vaping policy
- Sexual misconduct policy
- Nondiscrimination and harassment policy
- Disability discrimination policy
- Emergency removal and return of students policy
- Arson
- Assault, fighting or acts of physical aggression
- Bullying
- Commuter locker policy
- Computing and campus network resources - responsible use
- Copyrighted material, file sharing and illegal downloading policy
- Destruction, damaging or defacing of property
- Disorderly or disruptive conduct
- Disruption of university disciplinary process
- Drone use policy
- Emotional Support Animal policy
- Failure to comply with directive of a university official
- Fraternities and sororities
- Hate crime
- Hazing
- Hoverboard use policy
- Misuse of university property
- Name change policy
- Observance of local, state and federal laws
- Outside speakers policy
- Possession of lost or stolen property
- Sales and fundraising policy
- Social media policy
- Theft
- Videotaping, audio taping and photography without consent policy
- Weapons possession policy
- Conduct process
- Appeals process
- Campus Conduct Board
- Adjudication of extraordinary violations
- Educational outcomes
- Housing requirements
- Hall directors
- Resident advisors
- Facilities
- Furnishings and care
- Security deposit and charges
- Community billing
- Personal trash
- Safety policies
- Fire safety
- Hours and guests policies
- Entering student rooms
- Room assignment change policy
- Consolidation policy
- Single room policy
- Break housing policy
- Summer housing policy
- Fifth-year graduate student housing policy
- Reporting procedures
- Security escort
- Annual crime statistics report
- Hazing report
- Annual fire safety report
- Missing student policy and procedure
PARKING POLICY AND REGULATIONS
- Motor vehicle registration
- Campus parking lots
- Campus parking map (pdf)
- Parking and operating violations
- Fines and loss of privilege outcomes
- Parking appeal procedures
- Academic affairs office
- Student responsibility
- Academic advising
- Adding, dropping and withdrawing from courses
- Class attendance
- Grade appeals and academic grievance procedures
- Final exam policy
- Records policy
- Campus pastor
- Campus store
- Center for Career and Vocation
- Counseling services
- Curriculum Resource Center
- Dining service
- Diversity, Equity and Inclusion
- Financial aid
- Health Center
- Learning Resource Center
- Library
- Lost and found
- Mail services
- Music facilities
- Nature Preserve
- Student accounts
- Student life office
- Technology Center
- Computer help desk
- Writing Center
- Activity fee
- Office of Student Engagement
- Student organizations and activities
- Criteria for student organizations
- Privileges of student organizations
- Procedures for starting a new student organization
- Fund-raising policy
- Publicity policy
- Dining services policy
- Travel policy