Does Your Online College Care What You Do During Off Hours?
Aug 31st, 2008
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The Universities Weblog recently published an interesting post discussing colleges that require certain behavior from their students – even in their personal lives.
Online college students should be aware that some virtual programs also mandate that students meet their standards, no matter where they are.
The virtual degree completion program at BYU, for example, requires that students follow a strict honor code. Here's a few of the standards that they have to agree to:
"BYU faculty, staff, and students should avoid swearing in speech and writing; coarse expressions derived from profanity; displaying of pictures, posters, and other forms of expressions which are crude or suggestive; and expressions that depend upon allusions to crudity for effect…Any consumption of alcohol, in any form, is a breach of the Honor Code. The following are examples of serious noncompliant behavior related to alcohol use:
* Being present where alcohol is being consumed by others
* Personal consumption of alcohol socially or as a consequence of alcoholism
* Furnishing alcohol to others
* Having alcohol in one's apartment"
If you're worried about how your online college's policies may affect your personal life, check out their honor code. This is especially true if you're enrolled in a religious institution.
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