XIII-General Information
Responsibility and authority for University regulations covering students is vested in the Board of Governors of the University. This in turn has been delegated to the Committee on Student Rights and Responsibilities for all areas of student conduct not covered by the University Senate.
A publication, Student Rights and Responsibilities: University of Guelph, is supplied to new students in their orientation packages by the Office of the Associate Vice-President (Student Affairs). It is the responsibility of all students to acquaint themselves with these regulations and to indicate, each semester, as part of the course selection process, their intent to comply with them.
The University of Guelph is dedicated to the advancement of learning and the dissemination of knowledge; the intellectual, social, moral and physical development of its members; and the betterment of society (University of Guelph Act, 1964). These overall goals commit us to three central values:
The University accepts that you are able to make responsible decisions regarding your own moral and social behaviour. The purpose of these regulations is to provide for an environment that supports personal and intellectual growth. These regulations are intended to recognize your rights as a student and the rights of others, while also identifying certain responsibilities of students that are a part of the exercise of these rights.
For purposes of these regulations, a student is a person registered in an undergraduate or graduate program proceeding toward a degree, a diploma or a certificate at the University of Guelph, or otherwise taking credit or non-credit courses offered by the University.
Every student has a right to a full, equal and fair hearing, by an impartial tribunal, of the merits of any charge brought against him or her under these regulations. Every student who is charged with a non-academic offence has a right to present a full and complete defence, and to be accompanied by an advisor (or legal counsel) at any hearing of the charge against him/her.
Students charged are presumed innocent until found guilty on the basis of evidence presented, using the balance of probabilities as the standard of proof. The University has devised a non-academic process which provides for appropriate disciplinary penalties to be imposed. These penalties may include fines (up to $500), probationary periods, warnings and, in extreme cases, a recommendation to the President for suspension or expulsion.
University Committees
The University Judicial Committee is an appointed Tribunal of students and faculty which hears reported incidents of student behaviour that represent alleged infractions of the student regulations. The Judicial Committee may also act as an appeal body to hear appeals regarding actions or penalties of an non-academic nature imposed by a University of Guelph department where there is no other existing appeal process.
University Community Principles
Student Regulations
Judicial Processes
1998-99 Associate Diploma Calendar
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Last revised: March 17, 1998. Contact: sdorr@registrar.uoguelph.ca.