Faculty will model respect for each student as an individual, regardless of race, sex, national origin, religion, age, disability, or veteran status. Faculty will strive to generate respect and understanding for academic freedom by students and at the same time protect students from irrelevant and trivial interruptions or diversions. Faculty will insure students the right to raise relevant issues, doubts, or alternative opinions during classroom discussion without concern for academic sanctions. Faculty will be sensitive to students personal or political beliefs expressed in a private manner in connection with course-work. Faculty will not disclose student grades or class standing in a classroom situation without the student's permission.
Students also have the right to be represented by a student government.
Students may form, join, and participate in groups which promote the common intellectual, religious, social, economic, political, recreational or cultural life of campus. The College believe group activities to be a positive educational vehicle and recognizes the right of student groups to discuss, express opinions, to assemble, write, and publish within state and federal constitutional guarantees and laws. A student group may be authorized to use College facilities if its officers and a majority of its members are currently enrolled at Lewis-Clark State College. Students and student groups are free to engage in peaceful and orderly protests and demonstrations which do not disrupt functions of the College, subject to reasonable assumptions concerning time, place, and manner. In all cases the educational purpose and process of the College must not be disrupted by protests and demonstrations.