Student Conduct Hearing Board looking for participants for 2023-24

UMS Student Conduct Hearing Board is looking for participants! The Student Conduct Hearing Board is a team of faculty, staff, and students who play a crucial role in the adjudication of student conduct matters and ensure that students and/or student organizations are given the opportunity to have their cases heard by a representative body of UMA. The board convenes to hear select cases and make decisions on whether a student is responsible or not responsible for violating University policy.

This is a great opportunity to apply your critical thinking skills, gain experience in policy interpretation and application, and help make the UMA community a better place.

If you wish to participate and can commit to some in-person and online training in the Fall semester, please consider submitting a Student Conduct Hearing Board Application (below). Please note that filling this form out does not obligate you to participate in any way.

FAQs about being on the Conduct Board

The Student Conduct Hearing Board is a team of faculty, staff and students who play a crucial role in the adjudication of student conduct matters and ensure that students and/or student organizations are given the opportunity to have their cases heard by a representative body of the University.

The SCHB convenes to hear select cases and make decisions on whether a student is responsible or not responsible for violating University policy. The Hearing Board will hear information from the reporting party, responding party, the investigator, and witnesses, as appropriate, and determine a finding. All Hearing Board members will have the opportunity to ask questions of participants and make a determination.

A one-year term (renewable) with participation in required trainings annually.
Trainings are held online and in person. Conduct Board members receive a total of approximately 8 hours of training.

The duration of a hearing will vary depending on the complexity of the specific case. Most hearings last approximately 3 hours and members can serve on as many hearings as their schedule allows.

Cases may include any type of misconduct, including behaviors that may have happened on or off campus- including but not limited to alcohol or drug violations, hazing, assaults, and threatening behavior. Specially trained Hearing Board members may hear cases of sexual harassment, sexual assault, domestic/dating violence, and stalking that do not fall under the Title IX regulations/policy.

Past Student Conduct Hearing Board Members have appreciated the relationships they have built with students, faculty and staff across the UMS System from sharing this leadership role. Those who have participated have found to have gained valuable critical thinking and reasoning skills, experience in policy interpretation and application, and help to make the campus community a better place.

Student Conduct Hearing Board Application

Questions?

For more information, contact Erika Lamarre, University of Maine System Conduct Coordinator, erika.lamarre@maine.edu.