Ohio Administrative Code › Title 3356 - Youngstown State University › Chapter 3356-8 - Student Code of Conduct; Support and Assitance to Veterans › Section 3356-8-07 - Student travel

Current through all regulations passed and filed through July 1, 2024
(A) Policy statement. Youngstown state
			 university (university) recognizes that students can and do benefit from
			 learning experiences which occur off-campus. The university seeks to provide
			 safe opportunities and methods of transportation and to mitigate any risks that
			 might be associated with student travel for off-campus activities and
			 events.
(B) Purpose. To provide the
			 framework for planning and implementing student travel.
(C) Scope. This policy applies to enrolled
			 and matriculated undergraduate and graduate student travel and student
			 organization travel to events or activities that are organized and/or sponsored
			 by the university and to international travel for study abroad programs
			 available through the university's international programs office (IPO).
This policy does not apply to travel undertaken by individual
				students attending out-of-town athletic/recreational events; to students
				traveling to engage in domestic student teaching, internships, experiential
				practicum, observations or research; or to student athletes participating in
				intercollegiate athletics competitions under the sponsorship of the
				university's athletics department.
(D) Definitions for purposes of this policy.
(1) "Enrolled student
									" - a student
			 who has been admitted to and is attending classes at the university.
(2) "Matriculated student
									" - a student
			 who has been admitted to the university, has registered a major, and is
			 attending classes at the university towards a degree.
(3) "Student organization
									" - a student
			 group or organization officially registered and recognized by the
			 university.
(4) "Student
			 organization member
									" - an enrolled or matriculated student who is a
			 current member of a student organization.
(5) "University-organized event or
			 activity
									" -
			 an event or activity that is planned and arranged by a member of the
			 university's faculty, staff, or a recognized student organization and is
			 approved by the appropriate university official.
(6) "University-sponsored event or
			 activity
									" -
			 an event or activity that is endorsed by the university through financial
			 support or by sending student participants as official representatives of the
			 university and is approved by the appropriate university official.
(7) Appropriate university official.
(a) For approval of course or
			 faculty-sponsored travel, the dean, or designee, of the applicable college is
			 the appropriate university official.
(b) For approval of student organization
			 travel, the associate vice president for student experience, or designee, is
			 the appropriate university official. However, for student organizations
			 traveling internationally, travel approval is required from both the associate
			 vice president of student experience or designee and the associate provost for
			 international and global initiatives or designee.
(c) For study abroad programs, the associate
			 provost for international and global initiatives, or designee, is the
			 appropriate university official.
(d) For travel on behalf of a program,
			 office, or department not noted in this paragraph, the appropriate university
			 official will be the highest level administrator overseeing the program,
			 office, or department, excluding the president and vice presidents of the
			 university.
(8)
			 Designated trip leader. A university representative/faculty member/advisor who
			 serves as the point of contact to and from the university during travel. When
			 no representative/faculty member/ advisor is on a trip, a student may serve as
			 the designated trip leader.