Letter from Community Standards
Dear Keuka College Students,
I am so excited to welcome you to the Keuka College community as you start and continue this journey in pursuit of your degree and dreams. This is a special place and many Keukonians before you have called this home as you begin to develop that sense of community and belonging for yourself. The Student Handbook helps us learn how to navigate developing this community and how to start building connections with one another.
As our Vice President for Student Development, Dr. Heather Maldonado, shared, the Student Handbook provides a comprehensive listing of institutional and residential policies that denote the College’s expectations of our community members. These are the standards and expectations that we hold ourselves and each other accountable to.
This past academic year, 2020-2021, I embarked on a journey to revise and rewrite our Student Handbook and Student Code of Conduct with a Keuka College alum/intern from Binghamton University, Mack Ottens '19. This was a very reflective process for us, where we looked back historically at our Code of Conduct and Keuka College’s mission, vision, and values. We researched and analyzed the student handbooks and codes of conduct of peer institutions to develop benchmarks of where we were at. Mack and I recognized where we have been with this process as an institution and acknowledged that we could do better. We incorporated our campus stakeholders in the process to demonstrate that our campus is a community which relies on the expertise and participation of those around us.
The “Way of the Wolf” is a prime example of this work. Our community developed an honor code of what it means to be part wolf and that is now an agreement for us all to uphold and live out as proud members of the Keuka College community.
Becoming our neighbor was an invitation to you to join this community. Believing in this community is the work that we will do together this year. If you have any questions about this Student Handbook or our Student Code of Conduct, please feel free to reach out to me. Our goal is for these shared standards to be easily accessible and for there to be a transparency in what we do, how we do it, and why we do it.
All my best to you as you embark on your journey this academic year,
Timothy White
Associate Director of Residence Life & Community Standards