Student Conduct

The Student Conduct team promotes learning and development for all students through educational conversations, programs, and sanctions to increase an individuals’ understanding of their rights and responsibilities. The team is available to consult with students, faculty and staff regarding the student conduct process, policies, interpretation of campus policies, student concerns (including classroom behavioral issues) and other relevant areas.

As a Westfield State student, you have the right to:

• Be treated with dignity, fairness, and respect.
• Learn and engage in an environment free from harm, discrimination, and harassment.
• Exercise the freedoms of inquiry, expression, assembly, and association consistent with the educational mission of the University.
• Have your voice heard in matters that affect you.
• Receive written notice, access to relevant information, and an opportunity to be heard if you are involved in an alleged policy violation.

You are expected to:

• Act with integrity, respect, and accountability in your interactions with others.
• Contribute to a safe, inclusive, and supportive campus environment.
• Familiarize yourself with and uphold the community standards and policies outlined in the Student Handbook and other official University publications.
• Respect the rights, dignity, and well-being of others.
• Challenge yourself—and others—to do better when our shared values fall short.

The Office of Student Conduct fosters an educational and developmental approach to student conduct, focusing on learning through self-reflection and personal accountability for behavior and decisions. Each student and circumstances are unique. It is important that their office holds students to expectations and fosters a commitment of high behavioral and ethical standards with the intent to provide the student with a learning experience that results in the growth and personal understanding of individual responsibility.