Description
Ensuring Fair & Just Procedures in Student Conduct Proceedings
Across higher education, student conduct professionals are navigating one of the most complex due process landscapes in decades. Regulatory expectations continue to expand, litigation risks are rising, and legislators are increasingly shaping what institutions must and must not do. Even seasoned conduct professionals struggle to ensure that current codes of conduct and processes add rights and limit complications to student conduct proceedings. It is imperative that in the process of enforcing your academic and disciplinary standards, you are prepared for the real possibility and even the reality of litigation.
Join us as our expert presenter will provide participants with a clear, practical understanding of due process that strengthens compliance, protects institutional integrity, and preserves the educational mission of student conduct work. Use due process as a framework for flexibility ensuring fairness while adapting processes to meet the evolving needs of today’s students.
Illustrating real examples and the spectrum of resolution pathways used at NC State University, this training will demonstrate how adaptive, student centered conduct processes can promote agency, engagement, and trust. Utilize strategies to build buy in from key campus stakeholders and design your conduct system to be fair, educational, resilient, and ensure they go beyond “just meeting the legal requirements.”
Topics Covered
Gain crucial, actionable takeaways that will improve the way you:
- Explain the core components of due process, including procedural and substantive requirements, and how they apply within student conduct systems.
- Evaluate your institution’s current conduct processes to identify gaps, risks and opportunities for strengthening due process protections.
- Apply best practices for due process compliance that align with legal expectations while supporting educational outcomes.
- Implement principled flexibility, ensuring due process is upheld while adapting procedures to meet student needs and institutional context.
- Differentiate among a spectrum of resolution options and understand how alternative pathways can enhance student engagement and agency.
- Build stakeholder buy-in by communicating the value of adaptive, compliant, student centered conduct processes across campus partners.
Presenter
Tom Hardiman currently serves as the Director of Student Conduct at North Carolina State University.
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