Responsible for Student Standards
Campus officers are charged with the full responsibility for student standards. Just as Brigham Young University - Hawaii, Brigham Young Univeristy - Idaho, Brigham Young Univeristy - Provo, and LDS Business College must control decisions to admit students, they must be fully responsible for decisions which lead to withdrawing academic privileges. That will accomplish two things, one external and one internal. Externally, accrediting agencies will see demonstrated the necessary and proper independence of the university and college. Internally, students, faculty, and staff will see that moral standards are academic standards, central to the quality of education in the university and the college.
At least three forms of close cooperation must continue: (a) campus officials will inform ecclesiastical officers upon taking disciplinary action which will cause a student to leave the university and therefore the Church unit; (b) the ecclesiastical officer will inform campus officials when a student has been disfellowshipped or excommunicated; and (c) the ecclesiastical officer may inform the university when he believes that the student presents a serious risk to the university community.
To assure that this division of responsibility is understood, two messages must be sent. One would come from the board of trustees to the officers of the campuses. The other would come to ecclesiastical officers of student units from their (ecclesiastical) leaders. Cooperation will be assured if both messages stress that independent action by the university and ecclesiastical officers will be guided by equal dedication to high standards and by appropriate communication.
Source: A statement adopted September 7, 1983, by the Boards of Trustees of Brigham Young University, Brigham Young University--Hawaii Campus, Ricks College, and LDS Business College.
