Ohio Administrative Code › Title 3361:40 - Students › Chapter 3361:40-5 - Conduct, Rights and Responsibilities › Section 3361:40-05-01 - Conduct, rights and responsibilities: charter of student rights and responsibilities

Current through all regulations passed and filed through July 1, 2024
(A) Article 1. Students are members of
			 society as well as members of the academic community. As members of society,
			 students have the same responsibilities as other members of society and enjoy
			 the same freedom of speech and peaceful assembly and the right of petition that
			 other members of society enjoy. As members of the academic community, they
			 shall have the rights and be subject to the responsibilities which accrue to
			 them by virtue of this membership. Institutional authority shall not be
			 employed to inhibit such intellectual and personal development of students as
			 is often promoted by the exercise of their rights and responsibilities both on
			 and off the campus.
(B) Article 2.
			 Students shall be accorded a significant and direct voice in the formulation
			 and application of policies and procedures at the university, college, and
			 departmental level; the structure for such participation shall be determined by
			 the students, faculty, and administration of each unit. Arrangements for
			 student participation thus developed shall be subject to review by a university
			 body composed of students, faculty members, and administrative officials, which
			 shall be representative of the entire university community and which shall
			 determine whether such arrangements comply with the standards of this
			 article.
(C) Article 3. Student
			 requests to obtain financial information regarding the operations of the
			 university shall be respected. If, aside from public university financial
			 statements, additional information is desired, a request must be presented in
			 writing to the appropriate university authority.
(D) Article 4. Students shall be free from
			 unreasonable searches and seizures by university personnel.
(E) Article 5. Students shall be responsible
			 for maintaining established standards of scholarship and conduct essential to
			 the educational mission and community life of the university. In any case where
			 failure to adhere to such standards may lead to suspension or dismissal from
			 the university, a student shall, upon request, be granted a hearing before a
			 regularly constituted committee or board, which, in its proceedings, shall
			 afford the student the protection of procedural fairness. (See rules
			 3361:40-5-03 and 3361:40-5-05 of the Administrative Code) In addition orderly
			 review procedures shall be available to any student who claims that he has been
			 subjected to prejudice or capricious academic evaluation. All hearing and
			 review procedures in effect or developed at the university, college, and
			 departmental level shall be subject to review by a university body composed of
			 students, faculty members, and administrative officials, which shall determine
			 whether such procedures comply with the standards of this article. (See rule
			 3361:40-5-03 of the Administrative Code.)
(F) Article 6. Students have the right to
			 organize, join, and hold office in associations of their common interest.
			 Membership in student organizations shall be open to all students without
			 respect to race, color, religion, national origin, sex, sex orientation, age,
			 handicap, or status as disabled or Vietnam era veteran, except for religious
			 qualifications which may be required by organizations whose aims are primarily
			 sectarian. All registered student organizations shall have access to university
			 facilities as provided in the use of facilities handbook.
(G) Article 7. Students shall have the right
			 to invite and to hear persons of their own choosing. Scheduling procedures
			 shall not be used as a device of censorship.
(H) Article 8. Student publications shall be
			 free from censorship. Standards and guidelines for student publications shall
			 be determined by the communications board.
(I) Article 9. Any member of the university
			 community may challenge a regulation established or enforced by a student
			 governmental organization by submitting objections to the office of student
			 activities and programming, which shall refer the matter to an appropriate
			 university committee consisting of a majority of students. Should the committee
			 find that the challenged regulation is either clearly detrimental to the
			 academic goals of the university or conclusively prejudicial to the rights of
			 individual students, it may amend or repeal the regulation.
(J) Article 10. As a guide to the
			 interpretation and implementation of the rights and responsibilities set forth
			 in this charter, the university hereby adopts in principle the "1967 Joint
			 Statement on Rights and Freedoms of Students" endorsed by the "Association of
			 American Colleges," the "National Association of University Professors, "the
			 National Association of Student Personnel Administrators," the "National
			 Association of Women Deans and Counselors," and the "United States National
			 Student Association."