Codes and Standards

A Title of Honor: Creating a Culture of Discipleship
The Board of Trustees for LDS Business College, consisting of the First Presidency and members of the Council of the Twelve of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latterday Saints, members of the Quorum of the Seventy and the General President of the Relief Society, established an honor code and associated dress and grooming standards for all schools in the Church Educational System. This code of conduct is required of all who attend or work at LDS Business College.
The overarching goal of the honor code is to invite the Spirit into the lives of students in order to create greater discipleship. The honor code centers on four foundational purposes:

A Community of Saints:
Adherence to the honor code creates a community of saints where the Spirit may be in greater abundance. That Spirit gives students greater power to learn by study and by faith. It provides an environment that is a respite from worldly distractions, and encourages all to support each other in righteous living. Students make an individual pledge to live the principles of the honor code before enrolling at the College; a pledge that is renewed annually. This commitment requires important internal preparation. While at the College, students live in a society that outwardly exemplifies the values of the honor code. This community experience provides important group preparation. The combination of individual and group obedience is an essential prerequisite before God can lift the student and the College to higher understanding, greater power, and a deeper, abiding joy.

A Demonstration of Love:
Observance of the honor code allows students to show love for the Savior. It also provides a proving ground to see if students will be faithful in small things so that they might receive greater blessings. That obedience qualifies students to receive greater insights, opportunities, and blessings. Obedience to the honor code also prepares students for the greater blessings of the temple.

A Light to the World:
Observance of the honor code and the dress and grooming standards furthers the work of the Church by providing an example to the world. Students thereby let their light shine so that others might witness the impact of righteous living in the lives of college-aged students. LDS Business College and its students can show others a standard that brings safety and peace.

A Protection Against the Storm:
The Lord preserves the faithful and obedient. Observance of the honor code helps students to be in right places doing right things. It provides a place of peace, refuge and safety both for the individual and the community. It also preserves the good name of the College and the Church. The Lord has said that Zion cannot be built only upon the principles of the law of the celestial kingdom. Those principles include obedience, virtue, honesty, integrity, and cleanliness of body and soul. The College invites students, faculty and staff to abide by the honor code with confidence in God?s promises of joy, enlightenment, increased opportunities, protection and peace.

Honor Code Statement
We believe in being honest, true, chaste, benevolent, virtuous, and in doing good to all men... If there is anything virtuous, lovely, or of good report or praiseworthy, we seek after these things.
Thirteenth Article of Faith

As a matter of personal commitment, faculty, administration, staff and students of LDS Business College seek to demonstrate in daily living on and off campus those moral virtues encompassed in the gospel of Jesus Christ, and will:
* Be honest
* Abstain from alcoholic beverages, tobacco, tea, coffee and substance abuse
* Live a chaste and virtuous life
* Obey the law and all campus policies
* Participate regularly in church services
* Use clean language
* Observe Dress and Grooming Standards
* Respect others
* Encourage others in their commitment to comply with the Honor Code

Specific policies embodied in the Honor Code include: (1) the Dress and Grooming Standards; (2) the Academic Honesty Policy; (3) the Continuing Student Ecclesiastical Endorsement Requirement and (4) the Residential Living Standards.

Dress and Grooming Standards
The dress and grooming of men and women should always be modest, neat, clean and consistent with the dignity adherent to representing The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints and any of its institutions of higher education.

Modesty and cleanliness are important values that reflect personal dignity and integrity, through which students, staff and faculty represent the principles and standards of the Church. Members of the LDSBC community commit themselves to observe these standards, which reflect the direction given by the Board of Trustees and the Church publication For the Strength of Youth. These guiding principles apply at all CES institutions of higher education. The application of these principles may vary slightly at the various institutions in accordance with local conditions and circumstances.

Men
A clean and well-cared-for appearance should be maintained. Hairstyles should be clean and neat, avoiding extreme styles or colors and trimmed above the collar, leaving the ear uncovered. Sideburns should not extend below the earlobe or onto the cheek. If worn, mustaches should be neatly trimmed and may not extend beyond or below the corners of the mouth. Men are expected to be clean shaven; beards are not acceptable. Earrings and other body piercing are not acceptable. Shoes should be worn in all public campus areas.

Women
A clean and well-cared-for appearance should be maintained. Clothing is inappropriate when it is sleeveless, strapless, backless or revealing; has slits above the knee; exposes the midriff; or is form-fitting. Dresses and skirts must be knee length or longer. Hairstyles should be clean and neat, avoiding extreme styles and colors. Excessive ear piercing (defined as more than one per ear) and all other body piercings are not acceptable. Shoes should be worn in all public campus areas.

Academic Honesty
Students are expected to be honest and to help others fulfill the same responsibility. All forms of academic dishonesty are unacceptable behavior.

Continuing Student Ecclesiastical Endorsement
LDS Students: All enrolled, continuing students at LDS Business College will be required to annually submit a continuing endorsement from the bishop of the ward (1) in which they live and (2) that holds their current Church membership record. Students attending wards on or off campus will need to obtain a form at the Admissions Office or online at www.ldsbc.edu/PDF/CEE.htm. Endorsements expire April 1st of each year.

Other Students: Non-LDS students are to be endorsed annually by (1) the local ecclesiastical leader if the student is an active member of the congregation or (2) the bishop of the LDS ward in which they currently reside. Students who wish to talk to an LDS bishop may contact the Admissions Office to obtain that information.

Whether on or off campus, all students are expected to abide by the Honor Code, which includes the (1) Academic Honesty Policy, (2) Dress and Grooming Standards, (3) Residential Living Standards and (4) Continuing Student Ecclesiastical Endorsement.

Violation of Honor Code
See Standards Book for procedures concerning Honor Code violations.