Trinity College Student Handbook
Dear Trinity Students:
During your undergraduate career, the relationships you forge with other students will serve
as the bonds that shape our community and hold it together. Your interactions must be guided
by principles of care, honesty, integrity, and civility. Together, we must foster inclusivity,
promote agency, and create an environment conducive to our personal and collective growth
and success.
All students should aspire to lead bold, engaged, and transformative lives, that add value to
our shared community. The community standards guidelines, policies and procedures found
in this handbook are presented to you as a foundation on which to structure your daily
interactions. You are responsible for reading, understanding, and observing these guideline,
policies, and procedures. Should you have a question, we strongly encourage you to connect
with your Residential Learning Coordinators to discuss the values and
communal principles we uphold as a College. They can speak with you individually or in
groups and always welcome opportunities to engage in thoughtful discussions about the
principles represented by the college’s policies.
We continue our important work on the Campaign for Community, an institutional effort to
discern and create the community that we wish to be. At its core, our work is to develop a
strong community that is inclusive, respectful, caring, and healthy. We remain committed to
creating and maintaining learning, living and working environments that are safe, equitable,
accessible and inclusive for all members of our community. We ask that you and your peers
commit to participate in and feel empowered to lead these conversations. You and your peers
help shape the culture of our community. Your engagement in thoughtful discussions and
interactions with each other defines our campus climate.
Immediately following this letter, you will find our Integrity Contract. Every year new
students sign it and each day students live it. This contract represents a commitment by
students to maintain the highest standards of academic integrity and to realize their potential
as mature and caring adults. Every student has the capacity at Trinity to self-govern and, to
accomplish this, must hold herself/himself/themselves, and each other, accountable to our
community standards.
Your active support of these policies and community standards along with your participation
in the vibrant and diverse life of our college will move Trinity toward an inclusive community.
We wish you the best in the coming year.
Sincerely,
Dr. Jody T. Goodman
Dean of Student Life and Director of The Bantam Network
Robert P. Lukaskiewicz
Dean of Community Life and Standards