Conduct Process

 

The Office of Student Accountability (OSA) has five conduct practices: General Student Conduct, General Student Conduct involving a Complainant,  Appeal, Charge + Sanction, and Informal Resolution. Listed below are the track maps along with information regarding your track. For any further questions regarding the conduct process, e-mail our office at accountability@uark.edu.  

The General Student Conduct track is typically used when a student has been reported for a Code of Student Life policy violation. Click this link below to view the process. 

This track is typically used when a student is a victim of a Crime of Violence according to FERPA or constitutes an alleged violation of the following Code of Student Life Standards; Sexual Harassment, Sexual Misconduct, Stalking, Voyeurism, Discrimination and/or Discriminatory Harassment. The offenses that constitute a "crime of violence" under FERPA include arson, assault offenses, burglary, criminal homicide, destruction/damage/vandalism of property, kidnapping/abduction, robbery, forcible sex offenses, statutory rape and incest. Click this link to view the process. 

Any student that is found responsible for a policy violation has twenty-five (25) days to submit an appeal. A student must meet at least one of the four appeal grounds in order to submit an appeal to our office. The hearing body for appeals is the All-University Conduct Board which consists of members of University of Arkansas faculty, staff, undergraduate students and graduate students. All decisions of the AUCB are final. Click this link to view the process. 

If a student is reported for a policy violation that is found to be sufficiently minor and does not require a meeting, the student will receive a Charge + Sanction Letter via e-mail where the student can accept or refute charges. Click this link to view the process. 

When a student is reported of a possible policy violation, but the reported action is not a violation of the Code of Student Life. However, if the reported action is still of concern to both the student and OSA, the student’s case may result in an informal resolution, such as an educational conversation.  Click this link to view the process.