Students come to The Scholars’ Semester in Oxford from a variety of backgrounds and religious traditions and bring their different values and insights to the programme.  The programme seeks to provide an environment within which all members can co-exist harmoniously and learn respect for each other.  Faculty and students are asked to avoid all expressions of racial, religious, and gender discrimination. While we do not require our students to uphold the Christian faith and tradition (Catholic, Orthodox, or Protestant), we do require that each student should respect the tradition and, while a participant in this community, live according to its historically held precepts.  Living in such a community requires participants to remember the “Golden Rule” in their dealings with one another: “Do unto others as you would have them do unto you.”  In keeping with the Christian tradition, students are expected to live a virtuous life and avoid vices.  Each student is also asked to commit himself/herself to the following statement prior to admission to the programme:

 I HEREBY RECOGNIZE that I will be participating in a Christ-centered community in Oxford, England, requiring an exemplary lifestyle in living and learning, and respect for members of this community and the surrounding local culture.  While in the programme, I will endeavor to conduct myself in accordance with a Christ-centered life; cultivating actions it commends such as love, compassion, truthfulness, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness and self-control.  I will likewise refrain from dishonesty, plagiarism, drunkenness, sexual immorality, theft, violence, disruptive behavior, racism, sexual harassment and illicit or non-medical use of drugs, narcotics & other substances.  I will also honor any additional standards required by my home institution.

I UNDERSTAND that violation of any of these standards is grounds for disciplinary action, including immediate dismissal from the program.

These are the standards by which all students live while involved in the programme. 

Upon receipt of a complaint about, or notice of such a violation or conduct, the program director will notify the student of the complaint or alleged violation and give an opportunity to be heard. Following this, the director will attempt to communicate, consult and coordinate with the senior student life official at the student's home institution. Following these steps, the director will make a decision with respect to the appropriate disciplinary response and will inform the student and the senior student life official at the home campus of that decision. The director's decision will be final unless the student chooses to make a verbal appeal to the CCCU vice president in charge of student programs.