Residential Student Conduct

The Office of Housing and Residence Life is committed to creating a campus community that is safe and conducive to a student’s academic success and expects all residents who reside and visit the residence halls to abide by the policies set for in the Student Code of Conduct and the Community Guidebook. All students who have an alleged violation of a University and/or Housing policy are afforded due process and have an opportunity for their case to be heard by a University administrator or a student panel.

Sanction Forms

For students who have had an incident and need to complete sanctions, all sanction forms are listed below: Please refer to your decision letter to determine which forms are appropriate.
• Restorative Service Hours
• Counseling Assessment
1. Consent for Mandatory Assessment
2. Cashier Forms
a. Alcohol
b. Behavioral
c. Marijuana
• My Student Body
• Community Standards Workshop - Excerpted from Ernest L. Boyer, In Search of Community. Paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the American Council on Education (Washington, DC, January 10, 1990) and the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching, Campus Life: In Search of Community. Princeton, NJ: The Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching, 1990.

Appeals

For students who wish to appeal the decision(s) and/or sanction(s) of their conduct hearing, the OHRL provides an appeal process. All appeals must be received within three (3) class days from the date on the decision letter. In order for an appeal to be considered, the reasoning for the appeal must meet at least one of the following criteria:

1. Due process errors including the University’s failure to provide the student with notice or an opportunity to be heard;

2. The sanction(s) is (are) extraordinarily severe in relation to the offense committed; or

3. New information can be provided that was not available at the time of the original proceeding.

To submit an appeal, please fill out the appeal form and submit it to Zarah Boyer via email at zboyer@fgcu.edu or submit a hard copy to the office of Residential Student Conduct located on the 1st floor of the Commons.

Download the Appeal Form (.pdf - 151 KB)

Third Party Release

For students who wish to have the information in their conduct file shared with a third party, a release waiver must be signed. According to the Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act (FERPA), a student’s educational record becomes their own upon reaching the age of 18, or when a student enters an institute of higher education. In order for conduct information to be shared with any third parties, the student must complete a release waiver and designate the specific parties who the student wishes the information to be shared with. Upon signing a release waiver, the student has the right to rescind the release waiver at any time.

Release to Third Party for Conduct