Staff from the Dean of Students Office will reply to your e-mail or put you in touch with someone who can answer your question. Probation is a way of putting a boundary around a student and indicates clearly that the behavior previously exhibited was inappropriate and should not reoccur. Deferred suspension means that suspension is imminent and immediate if any future policy violation occurs.
Suspension means that the student's behavior was serious enough to merit time away from the campus.
Students who misuse computers may receive a deferred denial or outright denial of their network computer access. Students who disrupt residence hall communities may receive a deferred denial or outright denial of their on-campus housing privileges. In addition to the more punitive sounding sanctions outlined above, we use all the educational resources we can access to help students open their minds to alternative ways of thinking and doing. Because most of the violations we see are alcohol-related, most of our educational sanctions are tailored to that issue. We sometimes ask students to do web-based research on alcohol and other drug issues and policies.