Campus Discipline & Conduct

The campus drug case moves faster than the criminal one and does not wait for it. What you say to the conduct office can be used in court. Order of operations matters.

A responsibility finding decides what happened. The sanction decides what it costs you. Students spend everything on the first and almost nothing on the second.

A no-contact order arrives without a hearing and is enforced literally. The breach of it, not the original allegation, is what most often ends a student career.

Most exam cheating cases are lost in the first conversation, before any hearing. What statistical similarity does and does not show, and what to do the day the email arrives.

Title IX has required schools to treat pregnancy like any other temporary medical condition since 1975. What 106.40(b) requires, where clinical programs get it wrong, and how to make the record.

A religious accommodation request usually succeeds on process rather than persuasion. Put it in writing, early, before the conflict is imminent, and name the specific requirement and the specific change you need.

A race discrimination argument almost never succeeds as an assertion about motive. It succeeds when it is built on comparators: other students, in materially similar situations, treated differently.

Campus weapons and threat charges move before any hearing. The two separate charges in one letter, why campus policy is broader than state law, and the true-threat standard.

Behavioral intervention and threat assessment teams operate without hearings. What they are, what Section 504 requires of them, and what to do before the meeting.

Whether a school can discipline off-campus or online conduct turns on its code’s jurisdiction clause. If the code requires a nexus to the school and the charge letter identifies none, that gap is the defense.