Request support
Have you, or someone you know, experienced
- Sexualized Violence or Misconduct
- Personal Harassment (including on grounds of race, sex or disability)?
Access reporting options and well-being and safety supports.
Contact the VIU Students’ Union (VIUSU) Advocate for independent help with fairness issues, disputes and appeals.
Resource request and referral (early alert)
Are you or another student in difficulty or crisis? Help identify those who may benefit from additional resources and referrals to campus support services.
See also Supporting Students in Distress.
Contact the Conduct and Care Office: ConductandCare@viu.ca or 250.740.6364
What is student conduct?
The Student Code of Conduct Policy describes behavioural standards expected at VIU. See also the Student Code of Conduct Procedure.
The policy includes, but is not limited to, the following examples of student misconduct:
- Endangering the safety of any individual
- Violence or threats of violence
- Personal harassment (Policy and Procedure)
- Disruption of the learning and work environment
- Theft or Vandalism
- Violation of Provincial laws governing the production, use, or sale of alcohol and drugs, including their unauthorized possession or use on campus or, in association with University sponsored activity, off campus.
- Providing false information
- Refusing reasonable requests of authorized employees
- The posting of obscene, libelous and copyright material
- Misuse of the University name
Student Affairs provides support for students, faculty and staff for non-academic student misconduct issues. Reasonable effort should be made to address student classroom conduct at instructional and departmental level.
Contact the Conduct and Care Office: ConductandCare@viu.ca or 250.740.6364