
Spirit, Mind, and Body Sanctions
You are in the right place if you have received a Spirit, Mind, or Body sanction as an outcome of an administrative hearing. Below there is a list of Mind tasks you can complete as part of your sanction. You only need to pick one. Please read each one and choose one that works for you and will allow you to grow.
Community Standards provide students with reflective and developmental opportunities to educate the whole person in spirit, mind, and body to promote student accountability and individualized success. Choose one of the spirit sanctions below to fulfill your spirit sanction. Please be mindful of its due date, which can be found in your outcome letter from your hearing officer. This sanction may be turned in HERE. Scroll down to view your options.

Mind Sanctions
Students who must turn in an education assignment as part of their sanction may upload it below. Please fill out this form in its entirety. If you have trouble with the completion of this document, please email communitystandards@springfieldcollege.edu.
All documents must be in PDF format and no larger than 1GB.
Videos must be submitted as a .mov or .mp4 video and be not more than 5GB.
After submission, please allow up to three (3) business days for your documentation to be updated.
All assignments and reflections get turned in HERE! Please contact communitystandards@springfieldcollege.edu with any questions.
8 Easy Steps to Schedule an Appointment
Many of the Spirit, Mind, or Body assignments include making an appointment with a department on campus. Please review how to make an appointment below.
8 Easy Steps to Schedule an Appointment
Reflection Options


Academic Coaching
You will make an appointment with the Academic Success Center for two academic coaching sessions or two tutoring appointments. You should choose the best appointment type for your current academic needs. This sanction option is available to students not currently connected to the Academic Success Center.

Campus Tour
Take a virtual tour of Springfield College from the Springfield College Admissions webpage. Once on the page, scroll to the bottom and click “Take a Virtual Tour". Watch at least five of the loaded tours on this page.

Community Mentor
The Community Mentor Initiative is an opportunity for you as a student to get to know and meet one-on-one with a staff member of your choice. You will meet with your mentor every other week for four months. The purpose of this program is for you to have purposeful conversations, identify resources at Springfield College that you may need, and build a meaningful connection with someone at the institution. This initiative supports you as a student outside of the Community Standards process.

Community Service
Are you interested in giving back to the Springfield College community with five (5) hours of community service? We have two community service options for students, working with the Center for Service and Leadership.

Don't Take it Personally
Listen to the 22-minute podcast, “How to stop stewing about something you've taken (a little too) personally,” on National Public Radio (NPR) as part of the Life Kit, Tools to Help You Get it Together.

Interview Future Employer
You will make an appointment with the Career Center at 413-748-3222 for a career advising appointment with a Career Advisor. You do not need to share your conduct history with the Career Advisor, but it may be helpful to share that you had a recent Community Standards meeting and subsequently scheduled a meeting with the Career Center. Please ensure you know when your paper is due to fulfill your community standards obligation.

Interview Res. Life or Facilities
You will find a member from Facilities Management here at Springfield College and schedule an interview for approximately thirty (30) minutes to discuss their role on campus.

Interview Res. Life or Facilities
You will find a member from Housing and Residence Life, a Resident Assistant (RA) or Community Director (CD), or a Public Safety Officer here at Springfield College to interview for approximately thirty (30) minutes to discuss their role on campus.

Journal
Create a two-week electronic journal only documenting what you are comfortable sharing. Your first journal entry should include goals for the two weeks you'll keep the journal.
Daily, you are expected to address the following questions:

Letter to Friends
You will write a 2-3 page letter to your friends or the group of people you were with that put you in a compromising situation. In the letter, you should address the incident and explain your disappointment, anger, and/or distrust in how they did not support you. Explain how they have potentially impacted your future at Springfield College and your future beyond. You may also include how they exhibited poor friendship and were questionable with some of the values of your friend group. (You will not be sending this letter to the friends or group of people).

Letter to Self
Write a 2-3 page letter to yourself to go back in time and give to yourself when you were a first-year student at Springfield College or a senior in high school. The letter should include

On Line Modules
Community Standards has partnered with Vector Solutions to provide online, supplemental training topics to inform you of issues and information vital to achieving your personal and professional success at Springfield College. Please review the topics below and choose training module options totaling 30 minutes or more to count towards your spirit, mind, or body sanction goal.

Social Media
Create a campaign surrounding the code of conduct violation(s) you were charged with. The campaign should bring awareness to other students. The campaign needs to include the following:
An idea for a new sanction for the code of conduct violation(s) you were charged with

Springfield College Mission
The mission of Springfield College is to educate the whole person in spirit, mind, and body for leadership in service to others.
Please submit a reflection addressing at least three questions listed in the document by clicking below.

Wellness Wheel
Whatever the reason you are completing this Wellness Wheel exercise today, we hope you can learn something new that you will take with you to achieve overall wellness.
It’s essential for you, as a Springfield College student, to ensure you are healthy in all eight aspects of the Wellness Wheel to achieve your overall personal wellness. College life is sometimes challenging and complicated; you must take care of yourself and be mindful of your overall wellness to achieve everything you have set out to accomplish here at Springfield College. What is overall wellness? That’s up to you and may change depending on what you have going on in your life at any given time.