Core Values: Respect

Core Value:  Respect

Rockford University students show positive regard for each other and for the community. Behavior that violates this value includes, but is not limited to:

29) Harm to Persons

Intentionally or recklessly causing physical harm or endangering the health or safety of any person.

30) Threatening Behaviors
  1. Threat. Written or verbal conduct that causes a reasonable expectation of injury to the health or safety of any person or damage to any property.
  2. Intimidation. Intimidation defined as implied threats or acts that cause a reasonable fear of harm in another.
31) Bullying and Cyberbullying


32) Hazing

Defined as an act that endangers the mental or physical health or safety of a student, or that destroys or removes public or private property, for the purpose of initiation, admission into, affiliation with, or as a condition for continued membership in a group or organization. Participation or cooperation by the person(s) being hazed does not excuse the violation. Failing to intervene to prevent and/or failing to discourage and/or failing to report those acts may also violate this policy. (See Community Standards);

33) Intimate Partner/Relationship Violence

Violence or abuse by a person in an intimate relationship with another;

34) Stalking

Stalking is a course of conduct directed at a specific person that is unwelcome and would cause a reasonable person to feel fear;

35) Sexual Misconduct

Includes, but is not limited to, sexual harassment, non-consensual sexual contact, non-consensual sexual intercourse, and/or sexual exploitation (See the Title IX: Sex/Gender-Based Discrimination & Sexual Misconduct Policy for further information);

36) Public Exposure

Includes deliberately and publicly exposing one’s intimate body parts, public urination, defecation, and public sex acts.