Penn State Berks accepts it obligation to provide for its students an atmosphere that protects and promotes its educational mission and which guarantees its orderly and effective operation. Therefore, certain standards of conduct, practices, and rules and regulations have been established and expected to be followed. These guidelines are found in either the Student Guide to University Policies and Rules or the Berks Student Handbook that is issued to new students at freshmen orientation, or can be picked up at the office of Student Affairs,14 Perkins Student Center at Berks.
The Student Guide to University Policies and Rules is available through the link above or at http://www.sa.psu.edu/ja/pdf/PoliciesRules.pdf.
Students are advised to keep their individual copies of the Student Guide to University Policies and Rules for reference throughout their enrollment at Penn State.
Office of Judicial Affairs
Penn State Berks
19 Perkins Student Center
610-396-6076
The Pennsylvania State University is dedicated to maintaining a scholarly community that promotes intellectual inquiry and encourages the expression of diverse views and opinions. When students accept admission to Penn State, they accept the rights and responsibilities of membership in the academic and social environment of that community. Students are expected to support its essential values and to maintain a high standard of conduct that may exceed federal, state, or local requirements. These values include the following:
- Personal and academic integrity;
- Respect for the dignity of all persons and a willingness to learn from the differences in people, ideas, and opinions;
- Respect for the rights, property, and safety of others;
- Concern for others and their feelings and their need for conditions that support an environment in which they can work, grow, and succeed at Penn State.
- In order to foster these values, the Code of Conduct is based on the following principles:
- The University has an obligation to exercise oversight in
- Matters that impinge upon academic achievement and integrity;
- Conduct that breaches the peace, causes disorder, and substantially interferes with the rights of others;
- Behavior that threatens the physical and mental health and safety of members of the University community;
- Behavior that threatens its property, or the property of members of its community, through theft, damage, destruction, or misuse;
- Behavior that is repugnant to or inconsistent with an educational climate.
- The University has a commitment to enforce its contractual agreements.
- The University has an obligation to support and be guided by the laws of the land.
For more information regarding the Judicial Process at Penn State consult the University Park Office of Judicial Affairs or Policies and Rules for Students can be picked up at the office of Student Affairs, 19 Perkins Student Center, at Berks.