Time Frame In order to give the complainant time to finish a particular job assignment, an evaluation period or any other similar reason, the complainant may file a formal complaint of harassment or discrimination up to one hundred and eighty (180) days following the alleged incident of harassment or discrimination. Formal complaints filed within this period will be investigated even though the complainant has terminated their association with the university. Original Policy: 4/23/2010; Most recently revised 1/1/2016
RESIDENCE LIFE & COMMUNITY LIVING POLICIES Community Living
As a liberal arts campus with a four-year residential living requirement, we encourage all students and staff to actively work to foster a sense of community in the residence halls and across campus. We practice learning and growth in the residence halls and use the Social Change Model as the basis for our residence hall curriculum. Through work in Consciousness of Self, Congruence, Commitment, Collaboration, Common Purpose, Controversy with Civility, and Citizenship, we strive to create change on the individual, group, and societal levels for all students. The Office of Residence Life is committed to the Statement on Ethical Living and to the creation of an ethos of shared community. Residence Life provides an environment that supports the institution’s mission. More than residential facilities, the residential environment cultivates academic integration, personal discovery, social identity awareness, and leadership in action for all residents. The residential program asks students to consider individual rights and their responsibility to community, ethical decision making, and the standards by which all agree to live and respond to others. Developing civility, learning about individual differences, and caring for self, the facility and others in the community are some of the foundational goals of residential living at the University. Housing Based on Class Year First year students live together in one of these residence halls: Smith Hall, Reed Hall, Hassinger Hall, and part of Aikens Hall. The second-year experience is focused in North Hall, Seibert Hall, West Hall, the other part of Aikens Hall and GO House. Juniors typically occupy a variety of residences including houses on the Avenue, Sassafras Complex, Liberty Alley, and some West Village suites in more independent living communities. Seniors typically live on 18th Street, Liberty Alley, and West Village. Residence Life assigns residents to first-year housing. Housing for the second through fourth years is selected by residents based on their class year and a random lottery number within their class year. Residents are also able to propose and live in Student Created Communities (SCCs). The varied types of facilities have different goals to encourage the needs of the residents. Learning and living together with increasing amounts of self-governance better prepare students to enter the global community upon graduation. Residency Policy It is the policy of Susquehanna University to offer full, equal and non-discriminatory assistance to all students without regard to their race, color, religion, nationality, gender, gender identity, and sexual orientation in both placement in university residential facilities and in the furnishing of facilities. All full-time undergraduate students are required to live in University housing except those who are: a) commuting from and residing full-time in the primary residence of their parents or guardians which is within 45 minutes driving distance of campus; or b) married or civilly unified and residing with spouse; or c) serving as a legal guardian of a child(ren) and residing with said child(ren), or d) over 23 years of age at the start of the academic year. Housing is provided to undergraduate students for four years. Housing for undergraduate students after four years, as well as for graduate students, is not guaranteed and is dependent on available 50
