SFU Graduate Student Handbook

Student Conduct

The code of student conduct is intended to define your basic responsibilities as a valuable member of the academic community, to define inappropriate student conduct, and to provide procedures and penalties to be invoked and applied, should unacceptable behaviour occur. You are responsible for your conduct as it affects the University community. The code shall not be construed to unreasonably prohibit peaceful assemblies, demonstrations or free speech.

The University’s code of student conduct is contained in Policy S10, is printed every term in the course timetable and exam schedule. The Office of Student Support, Rights & Responsibility is here to help you better understand the supports available to you at SFU and your rights and responsibilities as members of the SFU community.  

The following activities are representative but not exhaustive of behaviours constituting misconduct: misconduct against people, disruptive or dangerous behaviour; behaviour which results in damage, destruction and/or theft of University property or the property of any member of the University; forgery or alteration of University documents or records; misuse of University resources including information (computing) resources; unauthorized entry or presence in university premises; and/or misuse of student disciplinary procedures.

Penalties imposed by the University for misconduct may include one or more of the following: a verbal or written reprimand, exclusion from specified areas of the University, restitution or other ameliorative measures, suspension or expulsion from the University.