Student conduct

Student conduct and the MQ community

At Macquarie we are committed to providing a fulfilling and rewarding learning experience to help you achieve your full potential. To provide this experience, we need to maintain an environment where everyone in the MQ community feels safe, respected, and acts ethically both on campus and online while studying.

As the largest and most important group at Macquarie, students play a vital role in helping us maintain an environment that we can all enjoy.  Read on to learn how you can help.

Conducting yourself while at MQ

We at MQ take the view that being at university is a time of learning, and that learning comes with mistakes. We all make them, and we all deserve the opportunity to be supported in learning from them. Supporting your learning, in and beyond the classroom, is what we consider to be educative action. In general you have two major responsibilities to the MQ community, which are explained below.

Your behaviour

The first and most important way that you can contribute to the MQ community is to always consider how your own behaviour may impact yourself and others. Basically, we expect you to treat all member of the MQ community with respect. If the university receives reports that we believe should be raised with you the Complaints, Appeals and Misconduct team will contact you to discuss the issue. In most cases mistakes of this type can be resolved with a reminder or warning regarding your behaviour. In more severe circumstances, more severe outcomes may result, but in nearly all circumstances if you make a mistake, you will have the opportunity to learn from it in the first instance.

Your Academic Integrity

As a place of learning, we also have expectations about how students display their integrity through their academic work. As mentioned above, learning comes with mistakes. Our Academic Integrity policies lay out how to learn with integrity, but also learn from mistakes if they happen. Find support services and learn more about academic integrity.

Some mistakes are more serious than others

Should more serious behaviour occur, or the educative action mentioned above be unsuccessful, we may take action under the Student Conduct Procedure. The options available to the university under this procedure are broader, and the outcomes may be more severe. Learn more about our Courageous Conversations and the student conduct committee and its processes.

Policies

To help you avoid making mistakes we have policies to assist you to distinguish between behaviour that contributes to the MQ community, and behaviour that doesn’t.

The most important of these policies are the Student Code of Conduct and the Academic Integrity Policy. These policies set out the expectations we have for our students, both academic and non-academic.

It is your responsibility to be familiar with the code of conduct and other behaviour standards required by the University. These include:

• Discrimination, Bullying and Harassment Prevention Policy
• Acceptable Use of IT Resources Policy
• Student Discipline Procedure

Contact us

Don’t hesitate to contact us, we’re happy to help clear up any questions you might have about student conduct.

Should a matter involve allegations of sexual misconduct (sexual assault, sexual harassment), you are also encouraged to access the dedicated support services and reporting avenues available at mq.edu.au/respect.