Continuing Education at Brigham Young University
You may not have finished your college or university education and are now using Brigham Young University continuing education to complete your certification or degree. Or you may have finished your initial college or university education years ago and are now using Brigham Young University continuing education to advance your job, career, and other interests. You might even just be pursuing Brigham Young's continuing education to keep your mind sharp while learning about other fields and interests without any specific program, certification, or degree in mind. Whatever your educational goal, Brigham Young University can be a great place to pursue continuing education. You just need to ensure that you don't get into trouble while pursuing continuing education at Brigham Young University.
Brigham Young Continuing Education Opportunities
Brigham Young University has a robust continuing education program. Brigham Young offers an extensive continuing education course catalog to reach secondary school students pursuing university credit through independent studies, university students seeking a traditional general studies degree, non-traditional university students seeking a flexible-curriculum general studies degree, university students seeking an online degree, graduates desiring test preparation courses for licensure or certification, and community education courses for adult lifelong learners. Brigham Young makes substantial offerings to reach all those interested in quality university education. The university offers continuing education students its outstanding faculty, facilities, and reputation. You have much to gain in pursuing your continuing education at Brigham Young University.
Brigham Young Continuing Education Misconduct Charges
You can, though, have something to lose when pursuing a Brigham Young University continuing education. Continuing education isn't all upside down. You face at least one downside risk in such a highly regulated academic environment. One risk you face is that the university may decide to pursue disciplinary charges against you. Don't underestimate the risk. Colleges and universities nationwide, including Brigham Young University, invest substantial time and resources into regulating student conduct. And if you suffer a finding of student misconduct against you, you may not only face school expulsion but also serious collateral consequences. You could even lose a job or career. Let our Student Defense Team help you if you face Brigham Young University continuing education misconduct charges.
Brigham Young University CE Requirements
Just because you are on a continuing education track doesn't mean that you get a free pass from Brigham Young University's academic and behavioral standards. Those standards may apply just as much to continuing education students as to traditional students. Brigham Young University maintains terms and conditions for adult, youth, and independent study participants in its continuing education programs. The adult program terms and conditions, for instance, expressly incorporate the university's Educational System Honor Code. The youth program terms and conditions incorporate similar conduct standards. Continuing education students must sign a statement agreeing to abide by these terms and conditions.
Brigham Young University CE Conduct Standards
Brigham Young University's Educational System Honor Code, applying to the school's continuing education students just as much as to its traditional students, comports with the doctrinal stance of the religious institution standing behind the university. The Educational System Honor Code requires continuing education students to be honest, live a chaste and virtuous life, abstain from sexual relations outside a marriage, avoid profane and vulgar language, obey the law and other campus policies, abstain from alcohol, tobacco, and substance abuse, and encourage others to comply with the Honor Code. Those standards are sufficiently strict and high as to prohibit a wide range of academic and non-academic misconduct. Brigham Young University closely regulates student behavior. The university sets high expectations for all its students, including its continuing education students.
Brigham Young University CE Student Discipline
Brigham Young University's Educational System Honor Code is more than a statement of the university's aspirations for its students. Brigham Young maintains and staffs an Honor Code Office with an administrator whom it charges to accept and investigate complaints of student misconduct. The university's Honor Code Investigation and Administrative Review Process expressly authorizes the Honor Code Office Advisory Committee to impose a sanction up to university suspension and expulsion. Once again, don't take disciplinary charges at Brigham Young University lightly. The university maintains its academic and behavioral standards and its reputation through its disciplinary process, holding all students, including continuing education students, accountable to those standards.
Brigham Young University CE Challenges
Students pursuing continuing education generally quickly learn that continuing education is no easier than traditional education. A traditional university education, especially at a university with the rigor and reputation of Brigham Young University, isn't easy. Your Brigham Young University continuing education instructors will push you just as hard as they would a traditional student to meet the same academic and behavioral standards that a traditional student must meet. Your continuing education may be flexible in its timetable or other conditions. But it won't be flexible as to the academic and behavioral standards. You have to try just as hard and conform just as diligently as traditional students.
Yet, you would also be wise to recognize the special challenges that continuing education can present. Continuing education students are generally non-traditional students. Non-traditional generally means that they are in a different place in life than traditional students who are typically unmarried, without children, and without significant job and career responsibilities. Traditional students are generally at a perfect spot in life to take on the challenges of university studies. Non-traditional continuing education students often are not. You may have significant job, career, family, financial, and other responsibilities to meet at the same time; you must meet Brigham Young University standards. You may also have not studied for school in a while. You may not be familiar with the technology and other study resources, practices, disciplines, and habits Brigham Young University continuing education requires. You have adjustments to make. If university officials believe you haven't made those adjustments sufficiently, you may face disciplinary charges. Our Student Defense Team is available to help you respond to those disciplinary charges.
Brigham Young University Academic Progress
If your Brigham Young University continuing education will help you earn a degree or certificate, then it very likely comes with satisfactory academic progress (SAP) requirements. Universities like Brigham Young that accept student federal financial aid proceeds must apply satisfactory academic progress (SAP) policies to that financial aid. Brigham Young's SAP policy requires that you maintain at least a 2.00 cumulative grade point average, pass at least two-thirds of the courses you attempt, and complete your degree within 150% of the standard time. Graduate programs at Brigham Young University may have higher cumulative grade point average requirements. Students often get off track of satisfactory academic progress because of illness, injury, death or disability in the family, pregnancy or child rearing, job demands, or similar life changes. You could suffer dismissal from the university if you fail to meet SAP requirements in your continuing education program.
Brigham Young University Academic Progress Appeals
Brigham Young University's satisfactory academic progress (SAP) policy permits relief from its strict academic requirements for students who can demonstrate "special or unusual circumstances." The examples given above may qualify. But you'll need to document those circumstances on the university's petition form. You'll also need to show a remedial plan that you are already following to overcome the deficiency. Our Student Defense Team can help you state your compelling grounds for relief, document those grounds, and articulate an achievable remedial plan.
Brigham Young University Academic Conduct Standards
In addition to earning satisfactory grades in your Brigham Young continuing education courses, you must also conform to the university's academic conduct standards. Brigham Young University's Academic Honesty Policy lists these four main grounds for academic discipline:
- Plagiarism includes both intentional or inadvertent failure to give credit for the material, direct plagiarism, copying another source, paraphrased plagiarism, taking the idea without attribution, plagiarizing in a mosaic of unattributed ideas, and giving an insufficient acknowledgment;
- fabrication or falsification of academic content, including manufacturing or distorting data or citing sources that do not exist;
- cheating, including copying another's work, allowing another to copy your work, using unauthorized materials during an exam, collaborating on an assignment without authorization, taking an exam for another, or allowing another to take an exam for you;
- other academic misconduct such as providing information to give another an undue advantage in an assignment or exam, receiving such information, bribery or accepting bribes for an undue advantage, obtaining test information in advance, continuing an exam after proctors call time, or submitting the same work for credit in more than one course without authorization.
Findings of academic misconduct can be especially serious because they suggest a moral failing and bad character. Don't let Brigham Young University academic misconduct charges spoil your good reputation. Don't let a finding of academic misconduct cost you your education, job, or career. Let our Student Defense Team help you defend Brigham Young academic misconduct charges. Even if you suffer no school sanction, your collateral consequences to jobs, licenses, and other important rights, privileges, and interests could be severe.
Brigham Young University Behavior Standards
Brigham Young University's Educational System Honor Code doesn't just set the above broad moral standards for personal conduct, including chastity and abstention from drugs, alcohol, and profanity. It also incorporates several other university policies prohibiting those and other behaviors. Those other policies include:
- Dress and grooming standards for clean, conventional, and modest dress and grooming;
- a demonstration policy prohibiting gatherings and protests that interfere with university operations or block streets, buildings, or pedestrians;
- a drug-free school policyprohibiting possession, use, distribution, or manufacture of controlled substances other than as permitted by law;
- a minor-protection policy prohibiting abuse and requiring disclosure of convictions and protective orders;
- a Title IX sexual harassment policy prohibiting sexual assault, sexual harassment, stalking, and domestic or dating violence; and
- a non-Title IX sexual misconduct policy prohibiting other forms of sexual exploitation such as voyeurism, sexting, and sexual blackmail.
Brigham Young University behavioral misconduct charges can carry severe sanctions right up to expulsion. But they can also carry serious collateral consequences. The collateral consequences for your job, career, professional license, or other licenses, certifications, volunteer opportunities, and interests can be greater than the school consequences. Don't underestimate the short-term and long-term impact of disciplinary findings. Our Student Defense Team can help you defend Brigham Young University behavioral misconduct charges.
Brigham Young University Misconduct Procedures
Brigham Young University's Honor Code Investigation and Administrative Review Process guarantees you certain protective procedures against disciplinary charges. Invoking those procedures properly and effectively may make the difference between suffering a severe school sanction, such as permanent expulsion, or suffering no sanction at all. By invoking protective procedures while communicating and negotiating with school officials, our Student Defense Team has helped many students gain early voluntary dismissal of the charges to preserve the student's enrollment and clean record. Remember that a charge is not a finding. A charge may just mean that school disciplinary officials need to hear your side of the story and review your evidence.
We can help you invoke Brigham Young University's promised informal conferences, formal hearings, and administrative appeals. If you have already lost your disciplinary proceeding, contact us to see if we can reach out to Brigham Young University oversight officials in the general counsel office for alternative special relief. Your reputation, education, and career are worth protecting. Don't let your continuing education at Brigham Young University result in discipline. Get the help you need for your best defense.
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