• 2.1 The Office of Student Conduct and Community Standards
• 2.2 Student Codes Counselors
  • ​2.2.1 Office of the Respondents' Codes Counselor
  • 2.2.2 Office o

These Procedures apply when a student is alleged to have violated the Cornell Student Code of Conduct (“Code”). Although these Procedures incorporate certain principles associated with the legal system (such as fair process protections), the Code is at its foundation a set of behavioral standards embracing teaching and learning opportunities, whenever possible, to foster personal development and accountability.

Cornell University is committed to fundamental principles of academic freedom and rights of free expression. Freedoms to engage in research and scholarship, to teach and to learn, to express oneself and to be heard, and to assemble and to protest peacefully and lawfully, are essential to the function of the University as an educational institution.

For information about the processes for investigating and resolving alleged violations of the Code, please review Student Conduct Procedures. Separate policies and procedures govern: Academic Integrity, http://theuniversityfaculty.cornell.edu/academic-integrity/; and Prohibited Bias, Discrimination, Harassment, and Sexual and Related Misconduct: Cornell Policy 6.4. In addition, individual colleges or programs may have student conduct expectations and policies supplemental to this C

The Code, together with Procedures for the enforcement of the prohibited conduct comply with New York Consolidated Laws, Education Law – EDN §6430 for the maintenance of public order on Cornell’s campus.  The conduct defined and set forth herein is prohibited and subject to applicable procedures adopted under this Code.

A. Jurisdiction:

The following definitions apply to the Code.

1. The term "campus" includes property and space owned, leased, used, or controlled by Cornell; it also includes streets, sidewalks, and pathways adjacent to or in the immediate vicinity of the Cornell campus or property.
2. The term "University" means Cornell University, as well as any affiliated programs or virtual programs, computing, and spaces including, but not limited to, University programs in remote locations within or outside of New York or the United States.
3. The term “student” includes:  Undergraduate, graduate, medi

PUBLIC FORUM VIDEO AND TRANSCRIPTS (11/12/2020)

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The University Assembly was charged by the President to review the following recommended changes that were a result of the Presidential Task Force on Campus Climate:

• Reworking the Code to have an educational and aspirational rather than punitive, quasi-criminal tone.
• Significantly simplifying the Code and having it use “plain English”.

This Student Code of Conduct (“Code”) establishes Cornell’s expectations applicable to all students, recognized student organizations, and recognized living groups (including fraternities and sororities) at Cornell’s Ithaca and Geneva campuses, and Cornell Tech.  The standards contained in the Code are based in Cornell’s historical educational origins and mission. These standards reflect the founding vision and values of Ezra Cornell and Andrew Dickson White.