Policies

Please refer to the Discrimination & Bias Policies document.

Augsburg University is committed to providing equal access to physical, instructional, and technological resources, environments, and programs to all students, staff, faculty, and guests of Augsburg University. Equal access is required by law as well as consistent with the University’s mission, Non-Discrimination Statement, and Equal Employment Opportunity Statement. All members of the Augsburg University community share responsibility for creating accessible environments.

Augsburg University gives students the ability to indicate their personal pronouns in AugNet Services’ Records and Registration for use in specific university records (see below) and for use by authorized university personnel.

Designate personal pronouns in Records and Registration/Information Release to be used and included on specific university records. Students who have not completed this process or indicated personal pronouns on one’s admissions application will not have personal pronouns included in these university records.

Personal pronouns are not considered public directory information and will be treated as private information. However, if you have granted third party access (e.g., for your parents, guardians, or others) to your information, Augsburg employees that have access to the areas below may use your personal pronouns in their communication with the third party.

Below is a listing of all the areas in which personal pronouns will appear (once designated):

• Alumni office records

• Athletic team lists (internal rosters)*

• Class rosters

• Faculty advisee lists

• Honors Program lists
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• Residence Life rosters

• Staff in the Enrollment Center and Gage Center

*For student-athletes who would like their personal pronouns used publicly (i.e., a student who entered one’s pronouns into Records and Registration and would like them to be used in PA announcements, such as “he/she/they/etc. score”), please contact Chris Dixon, Director of Athletic Diversity and Inclusion. 

Please refer to the Family Educational Rights & Privacy Act document.

Please refer to the Academic Honesty Policy document.

Please Refer to the Sexual Misconduct Policy & Reporting Procedures and Protocols document.

Please refer to the Alcohol & Drugs Policy document.

POLICY ON DRUGS/CONTROLLED SUBSTANCES

The use, possession, transport, or purchase of “controlled substances” (i.e., illegal drugs) by a student carries significant risks and penalties for the participant, the entire group, and the reputation and legal status of the Center for Global Education and Experience in the countries in which we work.

United States law prohibits the transport of illegal drugs across its borders.  Also, U.S. law does not protect U.S. citizens, U.S. residents, or others traveling abroad who violate foreign drug laws.  The laws which prevail are those of the country in which the law was broken.  Penalties may be severe.  The following statement is from a brochure produced by the U.S. Department of State, entitled “Travel Warnings on Drugs Abroad:”

[U.S. citizens] are in jails abroad on charges of using, possessing, or trafficking illegal drugs.  In many countries local laws make NO DISTINCTION BETWEEN SOFT AND HARD DRUGS.  Penalties are severe in many countries. 

United States laws DO NOT protect [U.S. citizens] abroad who violate foreign laws.  [U.S. citizens] must understand that once they are [outside the U.S.] they are subject to the same penalties for drug violations as the nationals of the country they are visiting.

U.S. Consular officers can:  insure, insofar as possible, that the detainee’s rights under local law are fully observed and humane treatment is accorded under internationally accepted standards; visit the detainee and provide him/her with a list of local attorneys; contact family and/or friends for financial or other aid.

U.S. Consular officers CANNOT contact the detainee’s family or friends unless asked to do so by the detainee; lodge a formal protest about mistreatment of the detainee unless the detainee approves; prevent delays by law enforcement officials; prevent unseemly delays in bringing U.S. citizens to trial.  FOREIGN GOVERNMENTS are not more tolerant of drug use, nor are they more permissive in their drug laws.

Penalties for possession or trafficking in any kind of drug ranges from two to twenty-five years and include a heavy fine in many countries.  Prosecution of offenders is being intensified abroad.

A student who uses illegal drugs while participating in a Center for Global Education and Experience and Experience program will be sent home at his or her own expense.  If the participant is detained or arrested, legal officials in the site of the arrest (U.S. or host country) likely will not permit Center for Global Education and Experience and Experience staff to contact or assist in any way the detained person.  The Center for Global Education and Experience’s responsibility for the student ends at the time of detention or arrest for drug violations.