Within community, interpersonal relationships are part of the learning process. Community assumes that individuals will become more responsible for, and accountable to, one another. As they do, they are better able to understand themselves and to make thoughtful commitments to God, the church and the world. In choosing to attend FPU one chooses to participate in this experience of community as it is described in the FPU Idea and as it is worked out in our lives together. The university is composed of a variety of intentional groupings with overlapping goals and relationships.
Community needs to be understood both in the smaller, as well as the larger contexts.
The rules of any community grow out of a particular tradition. FPU tradition is firmly rooted in the Mennonite Brethren Church tradition. The university recognizes that the use of tobacco products and alcoholic beverages presents a danger to personal health and, therefore, it strongly discourages members of the community from using them. No member of the community may use or possess tobacco, alcohol or illegal drug products on campus. This includes the areas in and around university houses, on the streets Heaton, Garden, and Townsend, within the university block.