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 Spirit 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.

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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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:

• What were the most important decisions you had to make regarding your own behavior and/or lifestyle today?

• What was today's high?

• What was today's low?

• Were there any decisions you regret and wish you addressed differently?

• What did you learn about yourself today?

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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).

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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

• Advice about what you know now and explain how this information would have been helpful to know when entering Springfield College

• What are your favorite parts of Springfield College, and what does your future- self has to look forward to

• Challenges you've faced at Springfield College and let your past self know who or what helped you overcome the obstacles.

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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.

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You will interview David McMahon, Director of Spiritual Life at Springfield College (dmcmahon@springfield.edu or 413-748-3210) to learn more about the identity of the individual(s) you wronged. You will ask questions that will allow you to learn why your words/actions may have been interpreted as hurtful by seeing your words/actions from another perspective. You will also ask David McMahon what they think can be done to restore the harm. After your interview, you will create a reflection explaining what you gained from this perspective.

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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 of the questions listed in the document below.

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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:

• A one-page written document outlining your campaign, including a rationale for how you thought of the campaign and what you hope to accomplish with the campaign

• Three social media posts, Instagram-ready, surrounding your campaign (do not post them)

• Canva is a great, free platform to create your posts

• Turn in the posts as a .png file

• A 30-second “Tik-Tok like” video surrounding your campaign

• Turn in the video as a video file

An idea for a new sanction for the code of conduct violation(s) you were charged with

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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.

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