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27A Statement of Campus Standards“Being a student at a world-class institution confers privilege, prestige, and unique opportunity,but it also obligates you to meet a set of standards and to fulfill certain expectations. I ask only threethings from you as a student in our academic community: scholarship, leadership, and citizenship. Ifyou deliver these and hold to the values articulated below, your time at UCSB will be more meaningfuland what you take away at graduation will be infinitely more valuable.”— Michael D. Young, Vice Chancellor for Student Affairs➣ Integrity in Academic Pursuits“In an institution where the search for knowledgeand truth is the primary goal, integrity in teaching,learning, research, and scholarship is paramount.Dishonesty underminesour commonmissions. This translatesinto the obvious:write your own papers,take your own tests,do your own work.”➣ Respect andConsideration inInteractions withOthers“The real test of this value comes when we encounterpeople whose backgrounds, beliefs, andworldviews differ from our own. If your educationalexperience is all that it should be, you willgraduate prepared to navigate a society thatcomprises many different kinds of people. Youwill also graduate having seen and understooddifferent worldviews, and will perhaps expandyour own. These are the key skills of the newcentury, and your education will be incomplete ifyou graduate without these abilities.”“Mutual respect is a non-negotiable. What thismeans is that there are some boundaries thatshould not be crossed. Intolerant and disrespectfulbehavior, especially regarding race, sexualorientation, gender, ethnicity, and religion, compromisesour sense of community and our abilityto live and learn together.”➣ Free, Open and RespectfulExchange of Ideas“Our community requires the respectful exchangeof ideas. People should be passionateabout what theybelieve and howthey expressthat belief, butthey must alsobe civil in bothword and deed.This principle isparticularlyimportant whena communityencompassespeople whohave different backgrounds, worldviews, etc. Iam not talking about political correctness, I amtalking about basic respect — about how peopletreat one another, not about what people thinkor believe.”➣ Contributions to and Participation inthe Community“We should all serve the campus and communitywhile we are here. Contributing to thecommunity can take the form of simply being agood citizen, being considerate of neighbors,cleaning up the campus and community, volunteeringat a school or social service in town, orhelping to raise money for charity.”The Division of Student Affairs continues to assist the campus in forging a greater sense ofcommunity. Some examples of our efforts include intensified safety programming and a greatercampus presence in Isla Vista, renewed efforts in leadership training, promotion of civicresponsibility, expanded and enhanced alcohol and other drug educational programming, and aformal ceremonial induction of new students into our community of scholars.If you are interested in being involved in these and other related initiatives, please contact theOffice of Student Life at 893-4569 or send e-mail to buford-c@sa.ucsb.edu.