46 2023 ANNUAL SECURITY REPORT charged with making a finding must make a decision of responsibility based upon presented evidence sufficient to make a reasonable person believe that it was more likely than not a violation of university policy occurred. DISCIPLINARY RESOLUTION SANCTIONS AND CORRECTIVE ACTION The University will apply appropriate disciplinary procedures to those who violate the University’s Sexual Misconduct Policy. The procedures set forth below are intended to afford a prompt response to charges of sexual assault, domestic or dating violence, and stalking, as well as other sexual misconduct, to maintain confidentiality and fairness consistent with applicable legal requirements, and to impose appropriate sanctions on violators of this policy. Disciplinary sanctions will not be issued arising from an allegation of a violation of the Sexual Misconduct Policy without holding a hearing unless the matter was resolved through an informal resolution process. Sanctions Against Students In all cases, investigations that result in a finding of more likely than not that a violation of the Sexual Misconduct Policy occurred will lead to the initiation of disciplinary procedures against the Respondent. When the responsible Party is a student, the Dean of Students, who is present at the hearing and after receiving a recommendation from the Decision Makers, may impose disciplinary sanctions. Definitions of student conduct sanctions as published in the Document on Student Rights and Welfare in The Key, student handbook, are listed below: a. Disciplinary Reprimand: A formal letter issued when a student’s conduct is deemed to be unsatisfactory to the degree that the University makes a record of the incident and warns the student against repetition of similar behavior. b. Review Period: A period not to exceed one academic year and imposed with the expectation that the student will engage in a relationship with a counselor or staff member and may include a service related to the infraction committed. c. Educational Activities: The required participation in a specified activity, service project, community service, educational program, event, assignment or other educational and/or restorative assignment. d. Access Restriction: Suspension of attendance or restrictions to co-curricular events or programs; change of residence hall assignment; and/or no contact restrictions with specific individuals for a defined period. The action may also restrict access or visitation privileges to campus facilities. e. Restitution: Payment for replacement or repair for damages to property. Restitution may be applied only once if civil or criminal action is also being applied. In these cases, legal judgments shall take precedence. Restitution imposed by a campus hearing authority will be held in abeyance until civil and criminal charges can be finalized. f. Disciplinary Probation: A status which declares a student to not be in good standing with the University and to be subject to loss of certain participation privileges for a specified period not to exceed one (1) year. A student is denied the privilege to represent the University in any organized capacity including intercollegiate varsity, non-varsity or club events or to hold office in any student organization. Such probation indicates to the student that future violations of University regulations will most likely result in suspension or dismissal from the University. g. Housing Suspension: A student may be excluded from campus housing for a specified period if held responsible through the student conduct process for a major violation of the Student Code of Conduct, for repeated infractions or a serious breach of residence hall regulations. h. Deferred Suspension: Deferred Suspension is imposed only in serious cases or in response to progressive discipline stipulating that a student, in lieu of University suspension, is being allowed to remain at the University provided that the student adheres to certain conditions. A student on Deferred Suspension is denied the privilege to represent the University in any organized capacity including intercollegiate varsity, non-varsity, or club events or to hold office in any Student Organization. Any subsequent violations will likely result in the immediate
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