SDA announces our SANCTION Framework is now complete and is available for use via the SANCTION Rubric and Scoresheet in the SDA Store. We hope you will use the SANCTION Framework to empower your hearing officers to rapidly determine appropriate conduct sanctions for students responsible for misconduct, ensure equitable sanctions in large, complex conduct cases, and engage in holistic, bias-minimizing assessment of students and cases.
Crafted by experts in Student Conduct Administration, the SANCTION Framework offers a sophisticated tool for adjudicating student misconduct. This innovative framework encompasses eight critical domains and equips hearing officers with a robust method for evaluating and addressing incidents. The SANCTION Rubric and Scoresheet operationalize this framework and provide an intuitive, practical interface that ensures consistent and equitable sanctions for students.
The SANCTION Framework’s 8 Domains
- Severity: How serious the misconduct is. How much harm was done to or threatened upon the campus or other people. If there are mandatory or minimum sanctions to account for.
- Attitude: How the student responds to the misconduct.
- Needs: How well the needs of the student are being met. Includes needs such as housing, personal safety, and psychological support and wellbeing.
- Career: How drastically the behavior may lead to negative career outcomes.
- Timing: How close in time this incident is to other incidents.
- Intent: Whether the student sought to engage in the misconduct or it was accidental
- Openness: How open the student is to growing and developing from the situation.
- Nature: How complicated the misconduct was and if it required preparation or not.
How the SANCTION Rubric Works:
- Hearing Officers score the student’s behavior in each of the the 8 domains in the SANCTION Framework.
- Hearing Officers may provide a rationale for each rating they provided in the rubric.
- The rubric calculates a final score for the student which points to sanctions appropriate for the level of misconduct.
- The Hearing Officer determines appropriate sanctions and customizes them for the student’s specific actions.
