Yale College Undergraduate Regulations
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Yale College Undergraduate
Regulations
Yale College is an academic community dedicated to the advancement of learning.
Students freely associate themselves with the College and in doing so arm their
commitment to a philosophy of mutual tolerance and respect. All students admitted to
Yale should understand the responsibility thus placed upon them. If any member of the
community should interfere with its functions or show themselves unable or unwilling
to assist in these functions, the community may find it necessary to protect itself by
suspending or terminating that person's membership. Indeed, by formal vote the Yale
College Faculty has armed:
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Its commitment to protect free expression and peaceful dissent and to preserve
mutual respect and charitable relations among all members of the Yale community.
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Its belief that physical restriction, coercion, or intimidation of any member of that
community is contrary to the basic principles of the University.
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Its expectation that such action will ordinarily result in temporary or permanent
separation from Yale College.
Yale College also reserves the right to withdraw students under policies described in
the Yale College Programs of Study. For more information, see Academic Regulations,
"Time Away and Return."
Authority for disciplinary matters proceeds from the Yale Corporation, which has
empowered the Yale College Faculty to oversee disciplinary actions with respect to
undergraduates. Penalties for misconduct by undergraduates are ordinarily imposed by
the Yale College Executive Committee, a standing committee of the Yale College Faculty
by whose authorization it acts.
The Executive Committee’s jurisdiction includes oenses described in
the Undergraduate Regulations as well as other actions on the part of students that may
in the judgment of the committee warrant disciplinary action because they may imperil
the integrity and values of the Yale community or the well-being of its members.
The Executive Committee may assign penalties as provided in the Undergraduate
Regulations, though in some cases that authority resides in the president of the
University, or is delegated to other University ocials.
Violations of sexual misconduct will be addressed by the
University-Wide Committee on Sexual Misconduct (UWC).
The heads of the residential colleges, the University Librarian, the directors of the Yale
computer facilities, and the Associate Vice President of Yale Hospitality may summarily
impose certain penalties for violations of the housing regulations, the
library regulations, the
technology facility regulations, and the dining services regulations.
A member of the faculty finding evidence of academic dishonesty on a class assignment
or examination is expected to bring the matter to the attention of the Executive
