Student Code of Conduct

I. General Standards

Freedom of Speech and Learning Activities by Consent Only

1. The right to freedom of speech, as codified in the First Amendment to the United States Constitution and as refined through applicable case law, is fully embraced by Meridian University. Students in the University's programs are expected to behave in a professional manner, to uphold the University's academic standards, and to respect the rights and responsibilities of all members of the University community.
2. Disruption of class activities prevents teaching and learning. Faculty have the right and responsibility to enforce the Student Code of Conduct (SCC) in all University academic activities, both live and asynchronous. If faculty fail to enforce this Code of Conduct, it is to the detriment of the learning environment. Students do not have the right to prevent the implementation of academic activities or otherwise interfere in the curriculum implemented by faculty. To interfere in faculty teaching and the learning process of other students can be understood as disruption to the learning environment.
3. All learning activities are voluntary. By attending and otherwise participating in classes, students are confirming they understand that their participation in each learning activity is a personal choice that they are responsible for making. Students may not pressure peers to participate in activities; personal responsibility is essential and inherent to the transformative learning environment. The University's Enrollment Agreement includes a section addressing the risks of transformative learning and the necessary informed consent in order to participate. Students can choose whether to participate in classes, whether to participate in individual learning activities, and whether to continue their enrollment at all. Students have the right to withdraw at any time.
4. Methods of expression, conflict-resolution, and feedback. Meridian students are expected to hold, and to hold each other to, standards of conduct appropriate for a higher education community with special emphasis on methods of expression, conflict-resolution, and feedback.
5. Misinformation and defamation. Students are expected not to engage in spreading misinformation or defamation of other students, faculty, staff or the University.

Safety and Transformative Learning

1. Transformative Learning is not suitable and can even be dangerous for individuals who are actively abusing psychotropic substances. When the student registers for, enters, and continues their classes, doing so verifies that they either do not have a history of substance abuse or, should they have such history, that they are receiving treatment and maintaining sobriety.
2. Any student receiving psychological or medical treatment by a licensed professional confirms by their participating in University activities that this clinical professional is aware of the student's participation and that they specifically and actively support the student to do so.
3. Meridian faculty and staff do not provide psychotherapy or any other type of clinical mental health services in one-on-one meetings, class meetings, or any other form of communication. Meetings with course faculty are about course curriculum and meetings with Academic Advisors are about academic advising only, which never includes psychotherapy. Students are expected to seek out external professional psychotherapists for their psychotherapy needs.

New Student Two-Quarter Onboarding

Professional Conduct

• Have one's conduct be consistent with this Code.
• Conduct oneself professionally in all verbal and written communications with staff and faculty.
• Conduct oneself professionally during live classes, including being video-enabled, without distractions (food, other individuals, pets), not while driving, and dressed in attire that may be casual but meets standards of appropriateness that does not disrupt the learning environment (these are detailed in Meridian's Zoom Guidelines).
• Arrive to both onsite and live video classes on time, return from class breaks on time, and engage attentively with class content.
• Observe posting and assignment due dates each week.
• Conduct oneself in a respectful manner towards fellow students, staff, and faculty (while disagreement is an essential element for lively classroom discourse, all members of the community need to approach disagreement with mutual respect, whether onsite or online).
• Notify faculty in advance of anticipated absences, late arrivals or early departures (live video classes and onsite transformative learning labs) and late postings and assignments (online coursework).
• Approach group projects with the intention and attitude of full collaboration.
• Turn off cell phones and refrain from laptop web surfing, texting, checking email and social media during live video and transformative learning labs (whether onsite or online).
• When communicating with staff or faculty, professional communication requires addressing the individual with whom you are communicating in the body of the email message ("Dear Name"), use complete sentences with appropriate punctuation including paragraph breaks, and place your name at the end of the message.

Unverified Allegations

1. Misinformation, rumor, innuendo, slander, and false claims have their basis in unverified allegations. Students are expected not to make any unverified allegations to peers or otherwise in any way promote, distribute, and/or publish unverified allegations.
2. Students who are aware of others making unverified allegations or otherwise engaging in rumor mongering are expected to alert University staff and faculty to such misconduct, which is a breach of this Code.
3. It is also expected that a student who is aware of others breaching this Code communicates that to their peers, as necessary.
4. Unverified allegations are often spread using phrases like "another student told me" or "I happen to know that many others feel the same way and are considering taking XYZ actions…" The use of such language, e.g. "I'm simply sharing what I've heard," does not negate the expectations described above.
5. Any and all allegations can and must be verified with staff and/or faculty through email directed to a single staff team email address (such as Student Services) or to a single faculty member.
6. Allegations of misconduct about a particular student, alumnus, faculty, staff, or the University itself can and must be addressed through the appropriate published procedure.

Illegal Conduct

Harassment

• Submission to such conduct is made either explicitly or implicitly a term or condition of an individual's academic success;
• Submission to, or rejection of such conduct by an individual is used as the basis for academic decisions affecting such an individual;
• Such conduct has the purpose or effect of unreasonably interfering with an individual's academic performance or creating an intimidating, hostile, or offensive learning environment.

Academic Integrity

II. Use of the Learning Platform

1. Student posts do not disparage, ridicule, mock, or condemn any other student, staff, faculty or any other individual or group affiliated with the University.
2. Students do not violate privacy or break the confidentiality of fellow students (except in any case where a student has communicated that they are at risk of harming themself or another).
3. Students do not replace or embed within academic writing, academic presentations or other academic assignments their complaints, frustrations, or criticisms about University policies, staff, faculty, trustees, procedures, decisions, processes, or communications. The academic activities conducted via the learning platform are not a place for grievances or related communications. The use of the learning platform for such communications can prevent teaching by faculty and learning by students and as such is disruptive to the learning environment.
   • Meridian has multiple feedback systems designed to gather robust feedback from students as well as established processes for students to raise and share any feedback or concerns that they may have, such as the Conflict Resolution Process (which includes a formal grievance procedure). Concerns or complaints must be raised through such procedures, not on social media or via other forms of online communication. Students are expected to use the numerous feedback channels available to them which include Course Evaluation, Program Evaluation, Mid-year Surveys, as well as meetings with their Academic Advisor.
4. Students do not write posts that promote misinformation, rumor, innuendo, slander, or divisiveness.
5. Assigned learning activities in courses are not to be used to discuss issues related to being a student at Meridian University. The content of these learning activities is to be drawn from other sections of the student's experience and professional work, not their enrollment at Meridian. Meridian University has formal procedures through which students can address concerns, conflicts, or feedback and communicate appropriately with staff or faculty. The Student Code of Conduct requires the use of those procedures and does not permit students to use learning activities in the learning platform for concerns, conflicts, or feedback.

III. Internet Use

Overall Internet Use Policy

Email Guidelines

1. When communicating with Meridian's staff or faculty, address separate issues to separate faculty or staff members in separate messages.
2. When sending an email to Meridian faculty or staff, direct the email to only one specific faculty member or one particular staff email address. Avoid copying others, as well as 'reply-all.'
3. Meridian email lists are the property of Meridian University. Unauthorized use, distribution, release, and/or display of any Meridian student's email address to non- enrolled students, students who do not have a direct academic purpose for use of the information, and/or any other person(s), are not permitted.
4. Distribution, release, and/or display of any Meridian staff or faculty email address on any external email list is not permitted. Additionally, do not add any Meridian email address to a mailing list or email group unless you have received approval from authorized University staff.
5. Please do not send any of the following to Meridian's staff, faculty, or students via email: 1) correspondence which requires a signature; 2) bulk mail; 3) chain letters; 4) jokes; and 5) political email.
6. Students are expected to 'allowlist' the @meridianuniversity.edu domain and/or proactively check their spam/junk folder.
7. Students are responsible for having the technical ability to receive email from Meridian staff and faculty at both their Meridian address and personal address. This means ensuring that email software settings allow for all @meridianuniversity.edu addresses to reach the user's Inbox and not get diverted to their spam folder. Students are responsible for regularly checking their Meridian email. The University does not permit auto-forwarding of University email accounts, as this results in the personal information of other students leaving the University network.

Messaging and Social Group Communication

1. Students should not use the words "Meridian," "imaginal," nor any terms directly associated with Meridian's identity that would blur the source of the representation in their personal or group website, chat room, social media group, or message thread names. Such use could imply institutional approval or regulation. Using phrases like "student-run" or "unofficial" is not sufficient to meet this policy, as such designations still imply association with, or oversight by the University.
2. The existence of any platform for use by Meridian students must be disclosed to the Student Development Committee, and its moderator identified. This is considered the responsibility of each and every student on such platforms.

• The University prohibits any use of platforms for and by Meridian students that are unmoderated.

1. It is the responsibility of all students to conduct themselves in appropriate ways. Students who create or manage online forums or groups that are not under the auspices of the University take on additional responsibility for the conduct of others "on their watch."
2. Students are advised that without coherent moderation and enforcement of conduct guidelines, online communication forums can devolve and result in disrupting or otherwise harming the Meridian community. Like the rest of society, Meridian has been impacted by the harmful use of digital platforms and as such, the University will intervene in all lawful ways available, if needed.

Social Media

1. Students should not make ill-considered comments or judgments about other students, staff, faculty, or third parties.
2. Students must take particular care when social media posts identify oneself as a student of the University or identify members of faculty/staff, other students, or other individuals.
3. The following kinds of posts are below acceptable standards of professional conduct:

• Revealing confidential information about others (information about fellow students or staff or personnel matters).
• Specifics about complaints and legal proceedings.
• Personal information about another individual without their express permission, inclusive of their contact information.
• Comments posted using fake names, fake accounts or using another person's name without their consent.
• Material that is threatening, harassing, discriminatory, illegal, obscene, indecent, defamatory, or hostile towards any individual or entity (including images).
• Specifics that may compromise the safety or reputation of colleagues, former colleagues, students, staff, and those connected with the University.

Student-Managed Communication Platforms

Policy Overview

Qualifying Platforms

1. There are more than five Meridian students with access to the platform.
2. The platform (or channel/thread/workspace/organization/team/group/space/event) was created by a Meridian student.
3. The platform is outside Meridian’s Pivot platform and Microsoft system (for example, Facebook, Whatsapp, or Signal).
4. The platform is one on which student personal, academic, contact, enrollment, or other identifying information is, has been, could be, would be, or might be shared, collected, stored, forwarded, or otherwise exfiltrated — regardless of the platform’s stated purpose, the number of participants, or whether such sharing is intentional. If there is any plausible pathway by which student data could exist on the platform, pre-approval is required.

Pre-Approval Process

1. The name of the proposed platform and the specific technology or service to be used (e.g., WhatsApp, Slack, Facebook Groups, Signal).
2. The proposed purpose of the platform, stated clearly and specifically.
3. The anticipated membership: who will be invited, how invitations will be issued, and how the student will verify that all participants are current Meridian students.
4. The methods to be used to protect member identity and the confidentiality of information shared on the platform.
5. The proposed Participation Guidelines that will govern conduct on the platform.
6. A description of how the student will prevent unauthorized collection, storage, forwarding, or exfiltration of student personal, academic, contact, enrollment, or other identifying information.

1. Approve the request as submitted.
2. Approve the request subject to specified conditions, which the student must satisfy before activating the platform.
3. Request revisions to the submission, in which case the student may resubmit and the 10-business-day review period will restart.
4. Deny the request. Written reasons for denial will be provided.

Moderation Guidelines

1. The Moderator creates Participation Guidelines and shares them with all platform participants.
2. The Moderator provides their Student Development Committee a copy of the Participation Guidelines as soon as the platform is activated and subsequently whenever the Guidelines are updated. The Moderator must also keep the Student Development Committee informed of any material changes to the platform, including changes to its purpose, membership scope, technology, or Participation Guidelines, by notifying the Committee in writing within five business days of any such change.
3. At least one Moderator is active at all times. If the original Moderator leaves, they will appoint a successor.
4. The Participation Guidelines include:
   1. The purpose of the platform, as communicated to its members.
   2. The methods used to invite and/or accept participants, and the method used to verify the legitimacy of requests for participation (in order to ensure that all participants are who they say they are, and are in fact Meridian students).
   3. The methods used to protect the identities of members and the information shared by members.
   4. The methods used by the moderator to enforce the Participation Guidelines.
5. When there is any uncertainty about the facts, the moderator and/or participants will communicate this uncertainty to the Student Development Committee to ascertain the facts.

Student Services Are Provided to Individual Students

IV. Disruption of the Learning Environment

• Behavior that undermines practices of personal responsibility and accountability.
• Behavior that involves inappropriate self-expression, including having the effect of undermining students' learning and faculty's teaching. This includes using the learning platform as a receptacle for current trauma or emotional crisis the student may be experiencing.
• Appropriate alternatives range from seeking help from friends or family; contacting one's own personal psychotherapist; calling emergency services (911); contacting Meridian's DASD or the student's Academic Advisor.
• Behavior that disregards, disrespects, or disparage faculty, staff, teaching assistants, and/or other students.
• Behavior that undermines the learning environment by bringing administrative issues into the classroom.
• Behavior that fails to promptly comply with any reasonable direction from Meridian faculty and staff.
• Behavior that undermines confidentiality and privacy practices.
• Behavior that promotes misinformation, rumor, innuendo, and slander.
• Behavior that uses the Internet in ways that erode the reparability and stability of the container, as described in this Code.
• Behavior that ignores instructions from staff or faculty regarding scheduling in-person appointments.
• Behavior that disrupts staff or faculty ability to support other students - such as showing up unannounced at MU locations.
• Behavior that negatively impacts the safety and learning journey of others, with particular concern for new students in their first two onboarding quarters.
• Adversarial and/or divisive actions taken by student(s) and/or between faculty, staff or other students is considered harmful to the transformative learning process and learning environment. Any such actions that engage or further an adversarial polarization with Meridian community members is considered disruptive to the learning environment and as such may be grounds for immediate administrative withdrawal.

1. Issue a written warning to the student.
2. Take one or more academic review actions such as changing the student's academic status to concern or probation.
3. Initiate administrative withdrawal.

Outside-of-School Behavior

• poses a potential danger to self or others; or
• potentially lead to disrupting the learning environment; or
• adversely affect Meridian University.

V. Use of Meridian Campus and Centers

Classroom Conduct Expectations

• Conduct themselves in a manner aligned with the principles and practices of personal responsibility, accountability, confidentiality, respect, and privacy that sustain Meridian's learning environment.
• Adhere to higher education standards of conduct, ensuring respectful verbal and non-verbal communication, constructive feedback, and conflict resolution. Students refrain from disrespectful expressions or undermining behavior that affects student's learning or faculty's teaching.
• Maintain confidentiality and refrain from gossip, defamation, or making ill-considered comments about other students, staff, faculty, or third parties.
• Follow faculty's directions for learning activities, recognizing that faculty hold instructional authority in the classroom.
• Arrive on time, return punctually from breaks, and remain in attendance until the class is formally closed. Students are responsible for their self-care during in-person learning (e.g., taking care of one's sleep needs, needs for solitude, etc.).
• Keep cell phones off or in 'do not disturb' mode. Laptops may be used for notetaking, but students are encouraged to refrain from texting, social media, web browsing, or conducting unrelated activities during class. Recording or live streaming in class is not permitted without explicit consent from the course faculty.
• Refrain from eating or napping during class.

Use of Common Spaces and Campus Facilities Outside the Classroom

Building Access and Use

• Students may only use designated university areas and must be aware of opening/closing times and space availability.
• Unauthorized presence in restricted areas or failure to follow staff instructions may result in disciplinary action.
• Students must adhere to all building security and access control measures as required by Meridian University and The Water Garden management, including but not limited to badge access and other security protocols.

Respect for Shared Spaces

• All common areas, including hallways, lounges, and shared facilities, must be used responsibly and kept clean.
• Noise levels should be kept low to avoid disruption to other tenants within the building.
• Students must follow all posted rules regarding shared spaces such as elevators, stairwells, and entry points.

Interactions with Staff and Third Parties

• Meridian students must treat in-person staff, security personnel, and other third parties with due respect, meeting student code of conduct expectations.
• All facilities-related requests or issues should be submitted electronically through the appropriate university channels.
• Students will follow instructions from authorized University staff and will not take actions that disrupt staff's ability to support other students, ensure safety, security, and effectiveness, or otherwise complete their role responsibilities.
• Students must refrain from any disruptive behavior, including but not limited to:
  • Showing up unannounced,
  • Asking questions on an ad-hoc in-person basis that should be submitted electronically to the correct team
  • Refusing to leave until a question is answered or demand is met,
  • Any other behavior that is disruptive to staff, faculty, security personnel or other campus users and any behavior that is in breach of any other University procedure, applicable regulation, or law enforcement requirement.

Safety, Security, and Emergency Procedures

• The building's security and emergency procedures must be followed at all times.
• Any concerns regarding safety or security should be reported to Meridian staff rather than directly engaging with building management or security.
• Any unauthorized alterations to locks, security systems, or access devices are strictly prohibited.

Prohibited Uses and Compliance with Existing Rules

• The campus premises may only be used for general academic purposes as per the university's lease agreement.
• Activities that create excessive noise, disruption, or violate building policies are not permitted.
• Any misuse of facilities or violation of lease conditions may lead to disciplinary action and possible revocation of access.

VI. Dress Code

Appropriate Attire

• Shirts, blouses, or sweaters appropriate for graduate studies and professional practice
• Pants or knee-length skirts/dresses
• Modest necklines and appropriate fit

Unacceptable Attire

• Tank tops, crop tops, shorts, or clothing with inappropriate language/imagery
• Flip-flops, or athletic wear (except in designated classes or events)
• Clothing with excessive tears, stains, or wrinkled appearance
• Overly revealing or form-fitting garments

Online Class Considerations

• Students should dress as they would for in-person classes, at least to the degree they are visible on-camera. I.e., appropriate attire from the waist up.
• Professional backgrounds or appropriate blurring or virtual backgrounds are encouraged

Special Circumstances

• Certain classes or events may require additional safety or activity-specific attire as specified by faculty
• Formal University events may require business professional dress
• Religious or cultural dress is always acceptable when modest and appropriate

VII. Transformative Learning Labs

1. Purpose and scope

1. Transformative Learning Labs are graduate-level academic experiences designed to support the development of program capacities through experiential, relational, embodied, and reflective learning.
2. Because this work may involve emotional activation and attention to interpersonal or somatic experience, students are expected to participate with care for themselves and one another while remaining within the Lab’s academic purpose.
3. These requirements apply throughout every online or onsite lab module, including breaks, breakout groups, chats, common spaces, and other lab-related interactions.
4. A Lab is an academic learning environment. It is not psychotherapy, a support group, an invitation to forced disclosure or boundaryless intimacy, a forum for resolving interpersonal disputes, or a venue for addressing administrative complaints.
5. Students are expected to participate both vulnerably and professionally while taking responsibility for their choices, conduct, boundaries, and impact on the learning community.
6. The quality of transformative learning depends on trust. Students are expected to protect one another’s dignity and contribute to an environment in which people can experiment, make mistakes, and learn without ridicule, coercion, or personal attack.

2. Commitment to the learning process

1. Attend as learners and remain focused on the course content, learning activities, and curricular outcomes established by faculty.
2. Follow reasonable faculty directions concerning the structure, sequence, timing, participation format, and facilitation of learning activities.
3. Arrive on time, return promptly from breaks, remain through the formal close of each module, and communicate anticipated absences, late arrivals, or early departures in advance.
4. Refrain from multitasking and unrelated activities, including email, texting, social media, web browsing, side conversations, and other conduct that diverts attention from the lab.
5. Bring scheduling flexibility, appropriate preparation, and the technical or personal resources needed to participate fully.

3. Faculty academic freedom and instructional authority

1. Faculty have the academic freedom and responsibility to select and facilitate course content and learning methods consistent with the approved curriculum.
2. Students may ask good-faith, course-related questions and offer relevant perspectives in the manner and at the times invited by faculty.
3. Students may not attempt to control, redirect, or prevent a learning activity because of personal preference, disagreement, scheduling needs, or a desire to address matters outside the curriculum.
4. When faculty redirect a discussion, close a topic, request silence or muting, limit chat use, or give another reasonable facilitation instruction, students are expected to comply promptly.
5. Respectful academic disagreement is compatible with the learning environment. Repeated interruption, argument about facilitation itself, off-topic commentary, or refusal to follow reasonable directions is not.

4. Respectful, non-disruptive engagement

1. Communicate respectfully in verbal, non-verbal, written, and digital interactions.
2. Approach other participants with curiosity rather than interpretation or diagnosis. Speak from personal experience and distinguish observation from interpretation.
3. Do not tell another person what they are feeling, what their behavior “means,” or what psychological issue they may have; avoid unsolicited advice.
4. Do not ridicule, shame, disparage, scapegoat, diagnose, label, intimidate, or make personal attacks.
5. Do not attribute motives, character defects, psychological conditions, or hidden intentions to another person.
6. Do not use the Lab to recruit others into a grievance, build factions, repeat gossip, circulate unverified allegations, or create adversarial polarization.
7. Do not pressure another student to disclose, participate, agree, provide emotional support, or take sides.
8. Address the assigned learning activity rather than shifting attention to personal conflict, dissatisfaction with another community member, or criticism of an administrative decision.
9. Respect differences in culture, identity, personality, communication style, and comfort with emotional expression. There is no single correct way to experience, express, or regulate emotion.
10. Consider impact as well as intent. Conduct may be redirected when it interferes with faculty teaching, another student’s learning, privacy, dignity, safety, or participation.

5. Administrative concerns, complaints, and feedback

1. Lab time may not be used to raise or process complaints, frustrations, or criticisms concerning University policies, personnel, communications, procedures, decisions, or services.
2. Students must use the applicable channel outside the lab, such as the Student Services Request process, a course or program evaluation, an academic advising meeting, the Conflict Resolution Process, the grievance procedure, an accommodation process, or another published reporting procedure.
3. Faculty may stop and redirect an administrative or grievance-related discussion without debating the underlying issue during the lab.
4. This restriction concerns the time, place, and manner of communication in the academic setting. It does not prohibit a student from making a good-faith report, requesting an accommodation, raising an immediate safety concern, reporting suspected misconduct, or using an applicable complaint or grievance process.

6. Consent, choice, and responsibility

1. Participation in the Lab does not require agreement with any belief. Students are expected to engage in academic self-inquiry about beliefs and assumptions as relevant to the curriculum.
2. Students are expected to engage actively while retaining agency over the degree and manner of their participation. No student is required to disclose personal information they do not wish to share.
3. No physical contact is assumed or required. A student may decline, stop, or request a modification to a consent-based activity, including an activity involving touch, proximity, eye contact, movement, disclosure, or interpersonal engagement.
4. Consent must be ongoing and activity-specific. Silence, hesitation, or prior participation does not constitute consent to a new activity, and a student may change their mind during an activity.
5. A student who declines or modifies an activity remains responsible for communicating professionally, avoiding disruption, and meeting course learning and attendance requirements through an alternative identified by faculty when available.
6. Students may not pressure peers toward greater disclosure, emotional intensity, physical contact, participation, agreement, emotional support, or taking sides.

7. Emotional responsibility and self-regulation

1. Learning activities may evoke unexpected emotions, memories, bodily sensations, uncertainty, or resistance. Students are encouraged to notice their limits and make responsible choices about participation—an exercise of reflexive vulnerability.
2. Students are responsible for responding to their experience in ways that do not transfer responsibility to another student, faculty member, or staff member.
3. Students may briefly pause, sit out, step out, or request assistance when needed for self-regulation. Stepping out for self-regulation is not a failure to participate; the student remains responsible for minimizing disruption and returning promptly when able.
4. Students should communicate with faculty if non-participation or an extended absence becomes necessary.
5. Students may experience the same exercise differently. There is no expectation that an activity produce insight, emotional release, catharsis, or any particular internal experience.
6. When reflecting on an activity, students should describe what they noticed rather than prescribe what another person should have experienced.
7. Students may not attempt to conduct psychotherapy with one another, deliberately provoke emotional catharsis, pursue another student’s personal history, or continue an emotionally intense interaction beyond the activity’s stated purpose.
8. Faculty, staff, and students do not provide psychotherapy, clinical assessment, crisis intervention, or emergency services in the Lab.
9. Immediate safety or medical emergencies should be directed to emergency services. Accommodation needs and non-emergency concerns should be raised through the appropriate University process outside the Lab.

8. Privacy and confidentiality

1. Treat personal material shared by classmates as confidential.
2. Do not repeat, record, livestream, post, interpret publicly, or disclose another person’s experience or identifying information without explicit authorization.
3. Students may discuss course concepts and their own experience outside the lab, but may not identify or reveal another participant’s contribution.
4. Educational confidentiality cannot be guaranteed in the same manner as clinical confidentiality; students should exercise judgment regarding what they disclose.

9. Online lab requirements

1. Join from an appropriate, private, distraction-free setting with reliable connectivity and functioning audio and video.
2. Remain video-enabled except for brief personal needs or as otherwise authorized by faculty.
3. Use headphones when another person could hear the session, and prevent others from viewing the screen.
4. Remain muted when requested, unmute only as invited, and use the “Everyone” chat only when invited or clearly appropriate to the learning activity.
5. Enter late without interrupting or requesting an in-session recap.
6. Refrain from driving, riding in a vehicle, eating, multitasking, conducting other conversations, or engaging in unrelated movement or activity during class.

10. Onsite lab requirements

1. Follow all campus, building, access, safety, security, and emergency requirements.
2. Use classrooms and common spaces responsibly and follow directions from faculty, staff, security personnel, and authorized third parties.
3. Keep phones off or in “do not disturb” mode and use laptops only for authorized course purposes.
4. Refrain from recording, livestreaming, eating, napping, side conversations, or unrelated activities during class.
5. Maintain professional-casual attire and comply with any activity-specific safety or clothing instruction.
6. Submit facilities or administrative requests through the designated channel rather than approaching staff ad hoc or interrupting University operations.

11. Response to concerns during the lab

1. Faculty may redirect, pause, or end conduct that is off-topic, disrespectful, unsafe, or disruptive.
2. A student may be asked to take a break, leave a module, or discontinue participation when necessary to protect the learning environment.
3. Potential violations may be referred to the Student Development Committee and addressed under the Student Code of Conduct and other applicable policies.
4. Nothing in this section prevents a student from promptly reporting an immediate safety concern or suspected misconduct through an appropriate channel.

VIII. Medical Emergencies and Communication

Contact phone numbers for US emergency responders

• Emergency Services (Police, Fire, Ambulance): 911
• Suicide & Crisis Lifeline: 988
• Substance Abuse & Mental Health Services (SAMHSA): 1-800-662-HELP (1-800-662-4357)
• National Domestic Violence Hotline: 1-800-799-SAFE (7233)
• LGBTQ+ Support (Trevor Project): 1-866-488-7386 or text START to 678-678
• Trans Lifeline: 1-877-565-8860