Student Conduct

The University of South Alabama is dedicated to the advancement of a community of leaders and learners that become actively engaged citizens who advance the Gulf Coast region and the World. 

The Office of Student Conduct is designed to promote, manage and maintain a safe and thriving campus community conducive to academic excellence. University policies and standards are balanced with the educational developments of its individual students by strengthening the concepts of social justice, global consciousness and citizenship, proper decision making, conflict management and resolution, restoration, civility, respect for self and others, accountability, integrity, and ethical development.

All students and student organizations are held to high standards of academic excellence and expected to conduct themselves in accordance with all federal, state and local laws, board of governors and university regulations, and policies. Failure to assume responsibility for actions which jeopardize the rights and freedoms of others or defame the integrity of the University will result in disciplinary review.

The Office of Student Conduct, along with the University Disciplinary Committee (UDC), is tasked with providing effective, efficient, fair, and consistent due process procedures; investigating allegations of misconduct; adjudicating cases; resolving non-academic disciplinary matters; and, when necessary, imposing sanctions for violations of the Code of Student Conduct. However, the University reserves the right to deny admission, continued attendance, or recognition to students or student organizations who continually violate expected standards or established regulations and demonstrate an unwillingness to obey the rules governing student conduct. The Lowdown, the USA student handbook (https://www.southalabama.edu/lowdown/), contains the Code of Student Conduct.

Student Academic Conduct

The Student Academic Conduct Policy is presented in the USA student handbook, The Lowdown. Please refer to https://www.southalabama.edu/lowdown/.