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ST. CATHARINE COLLEGE
STANDARDS OF CIVIL CONDUCT

All students at St. Catharine College are expected to know and adhere to high standards of personal and academic integrity, diligence, and civility. Student and program handbooks set forth specific rules, policies, and guidelines. It is the responsibility of the student to know and understand the material set forth in these handbooks. Beyond specific rules and procedures, the College sets forth a general concept of Civil Conduct to engender community, mutual respect and support, and common courtesy in the following statement:

St. Catharine College is a voluntary community of learning, fellowship,
and citizenship which both expects and honors in all it’s members:

COURTESY

• Common decency and good manners and a demand for the same from others.
• Respect for the tastes, interests, beliefs, opinions and backgrounds of others.
• Mutual support and concern for the welfare and for the efforts of others.
• Understanding that each individual’s behavior reflects upon the entire community.

INTEGRITY

• The highest standards of personal and academic integrity.
• A commitment to the highest ethical and professional standards of
  one’s discipline.
• The honest assessment of one’s own behavior.
• A respect for the law and the creation of a just society within the rule
  of law.

STEWARDSHIP

• Respect for the property of others.
• Respect for the property of the college.
• Respect for the time and effort of others.
• Respect for the environment.

PARTICIPATION

• Well prepared, honest and thoughtful participation in class work and assignments.
• Participation in service learning or community service activities.
• Participation in student life, co-curricular and cultural activities, and in life outside the classroom in general.

COURAGE

• Courage to know right from wrong and act accordingly.
• Courage to accept accountability for one’s own learning, actions and relationships with the community.
• Courage to demand that others accept accountability for their learning,
  actions and relationships with the community.
• Courage to care, to learn, to grow, to give and to accept healthy criticism,
  and to dare new things.
• Courage to be enthusiastic and to follow one’s dreams.
  Three things are necessary for the salvation of man; to know what he ought to believe; to know what he ought to desire; and to know what he ought to do.
  
  -- St. Thomas Aquinas
  Two Precepts of Charity