Honor System and Honor Code
In addition to the academic program, personal honor and integrity are developed and emphasized at Blue Mountain Christian University. The ultimate goals in student development are intellectual integrity, academic excellence, social consciousness, and Christian character.
Learning to live with others is an important part of a student’s education at Blue Mountain Christian University. The administration realizes the importance of students’ accepting responsibility for their actions and development. To assist in this process, the University has adopted an honor system based on belief in the individual honor and trustworthiness of every student. To make clear just what is expected of each member of the student body, a formal statement of the obligation has been set forth in the honor code. The object of every pro-vision of the honor code is to promote worthy individual conduct and to maintain a satisfactory system of government.
Besides the obligation of each student to keep the regulations and to report his/her own violations, he/she must use his/her influence with other members of the student body for their development as good citizens. Thus, the code is an expression of the Christian spirit.
Each student is expected to accept responsibility to protect the honor system from actions and attitudes which may weaken it. The exercise of this responsibility involves an obligation for fellow students’ relations to the college life. The unchanging obligation is to prevent the occurrence of detrimental actions and attitudes.
BMCU Honor Code
Accepting my responsibility in a Christ-like manner for my own conduct and for the welfare of my fellow students at Blue Mountain Christian University, I do hereby pledge myself: To keep the rules of Blue Mountain Christian University, to report my own violations, and to use my influence to induce other students to keep the rules of the University and to report their own violations.
The Principle of Honor: I will at all times develop and uphold high standards of honesty in thought, speech, and behavior.
The Principle of Self-Control: I will at all times control my personal desires in harmony with the social good of all, considering the interest of others to be of equal value with my own.
The Principle of Conformity: I will work at all times in accordance with the conventions of cultural society and the traditions of Blue Mountain Christian University.
The Principle of Good Citizenship: I will at all times cooperate with the rules and policies of the University.
The Honor System is one of many ways students learn to live the disciplined life of a Christian. Blue Mountain Christian University is exciting and challenging, but it’s not for everyone.