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Guidance for action if you observe concerning behaviors. Behaviors include words, actions, or threats of action.

It is NOT your responsibility to determine what to do. Your responsibility is to TELL SOMEONE something needs to be done.

Documenting and reporting interactions to the Office of Community Standards & Care Network helps ensure student success by facilitating early intervention.

Concerning Behaviors

Distress

Signs

Behavior you recognize as uncommon or unexpected.
Distressed people may appear troubled, confused, sad, highly anxious, irritable, lack motivation and/or concentration, exhibit bizarre behavior or express thoughts of self-harm or suicide.

Guidance

Contact Community Standards & Care Network when indirect and direct intervention has been unsuccessful.
Document conversations about distractions.

Distraction

Signs

Behavior that draws attention away from, but does not inhibit, your duties on campus, and does not pose a threat to safety or security.
Such behavior diverts attention, but may be acceptable elsewhere, such as cellphone use, eating or side conversations during lecture.

Guidance

Contact Community Standards & Care Network or University Police (non–emergency) when direct intervention has been unsuccessful.
Document disruptive incidents.

Disruption

Signs

Behavior that interferes with the living – learning environment or prevents you from performing your duties, but does not pose a threat to safety or security.
Such behavior is likely to be considered unacceptable anywhere, such as unruly crowds or class interruptions by individuals or groups.

Guidance

Contact Community Standards & Care Network or University Police (non–emergency) when direct intervention has been unsuccessful.
Document disruptive incidents.

Danger

Signs

Behavior that indicates an intention to inflict OR actually inflicts pain, bodily injury, property damage or other hostile or harmful action to self or others.
Such conduct is an EMERGENCY.

Guidance

If you sense immediate danger to yourself or others, DO NOT WAIT, DO NOT ENGAGE, CALL 911 IMMEDIATELY.
If you are uncertain, consider it an emergency.

RUN – HIDE – FIGHT

Immediate action needed. Call 911.

Referral Reference Guide

Student Behavioral Concerns

Student behavioral concerns can be shared through one of the following reporting tools:
- Care Referral reports can be made whenever you have a concern regarding a student or believe that a student may support.
- Share a Concern reports can be made for any behavioral or other concerns. The reports are shared with select campus colleagues as people who can assist. If you are unsure which report to utilize, we recommend submitting a Share a Concern report.
- Student Conduct Complaints should be submitted if you believe that a student's behavior may represent a violation of the Code of Student Life.
If you are unsure of the behavior or if a report should be submitted, contact the Community Standards & Care Network team at 701.777.2664.
Reports are monitored by the Community Standards & Care Network team.

Next Steps After Sharing a Student Behavioral Concern

The report submitter will receive an email indicating the report has been successfully shared.
The Community Standards & Care Network team will receive an email notifying them a concern has been shared.
The concern will be reviewed and addressed.

Student Academic Integrity Concern Report

The Student Academic Integrity Concern Report may be used to document behavior that may constitute an academic integrity issue.
If you are unsure of the behavior or if a flag should be raised, contact Community Standards & Care Network at 701.777.2664.
Student Academic Integrity Concern Reports are monitored by the Community Standards & Care Network team.

What happens after a Student Academic Integrity Concern Flag is raised?

The report submitter will receive an email indicating the report has been successfully shared.
The Community Standards & Care Network team will receive an email notifying them a concern has been shared.
The Community Standards & Care Network team will review the flag and respond to the individual who submitted the report. The Community Standards & Care Network team will inform the reporting individual if similar concerns have been raised previously as well as discuss options for responding to concerns.

The Code of Student Life

The Code of Student Life serves to enrich the University experience and as a guide for the University disciplinary/conduct system. The Code addresses the rights and responsibilities of all UND students and includes processes intended to ensure fair treatment of all students. The Code is available online at Code of Student Life or by request in the Community Standards & Care Network offices.

Application of the Code of Student Life

All students and student organizations are expected to maintain a high standard of conduct. The Code applies to students acting individually or in a group, both on and off campus. The Code applies to conduct that occurs on University premises, at University-sponsored activities and to off-campus conduct that adversely affects the University community and/or the pursuit of its objectives. Additionally, the Code applies to a student’s conduct even if the student withdraws from school while a disciplinary matter is pending.

Student Behavioral Expectations

Each student is responsible for their conduct from the time of application for admission through the actual awarding of a degree, even though conduct may occur before classes begin or after classes end, as well as during the academic year and during periods between terms of actual enrollment (and even if the student’s conduct is not discovered until after a degree is awarded).

Code of Student Life Violations

Appropriate conduct includes obeying the law, showing respect for authority, meeting contractual obligations, honestly communicating with the University and maintaining integrity and individual honor in scholastic work. Any attempted act that, if completed, would constitute a violation of the Code will be treated as a completed act.

University disciplinary proceedings may be instituted against a student charged with conduct that potentially violates federal, state or local laws, ordinances or regulations and/or the Code without regard to pending civil or criminal litigation, criminal arrest or prosecution. Determinations made or sanctions imposed under the Code will not be changed solely because criminal charges arising out of the same facts giving rise to violation of University rules were dismissed, reduced or resolved in favor of or against the student.

Academic Dishonesty

A faculty member may report academic dishonesty to the Community Standards & Care Network team. This can be done through submitting a academic integrity report. The Community Standards & Care Network team will inform the faculty member if similar reports have been made previously involving the student(s), discuss options for responding to the situation and offer assistance in investigating the situation as needed.identified

Incidents of academic dishonesty can be handled as an academic situation and/or as a student conduct situation through the Code.

Upon receiving an initial report of academic dishonesty, the student will not typically go through the student conduct process. Any subsequent reports or egregious reports of academic dishonesty likely will go through the student conduct process.