OCCS Administrative Fee

Effective July 1, 2009 any student or student organization that is found “responsible” by a University Conduct Officer or University Conduct Board for violating any Expectation for Student or Student Organization Conduct (rule) of the Student Conduct Code will be charged a $100 administrative processing fee to off-set the costs associated with the conduct process. 

At the conclusion of the conduct process, individual students who are found to be “responsible” for violating the Student Conduct Code will have the charge automatically applied to the student’s account.  The charge will appear on the student’s account as OCCS Administrative Fee.  Students who are found “not-responsible” will not be charged an administrative processing fee. 

At the conclusion of the conduct process, student organizations that are found “responsible” for violating the Student Conduct Code will be required to pay the administrative processing fee within 10 business days of the conduct hearing and a check payable to Truman State University will be delivered to the Office of Citizenship and Community Standards.  Student organizations that do not pay the administrative processing fee within 10 business days will have their University recognition and University privileges suspended (i.e., room reservations, posting privileges, etc.) until the administrative processing fee is paid.  Student organizations that are found “not-responsible” will not be charged an administrative processing fee. 

Rationale for OCCS Administrative Fee

The University, students, and student organizations are confronted with increasing resource challenges.  It is unfair to continue to ask individual students and student organizations who abide by the Expectations for Student and Student Organization Conduct at Truman State University to subsidize the costs of the conduct process for students and student organizations that are found “responsible” for violating the Expectations for Student and Student Organization Conduct.  Individual students and student organizations “found responsible” for violating the Student Conduct Code will be charged a $100 administrative processing fee to off-set costs associated with the conduct process.