College jurisdiction

Olin students are members of the college community as well as citizens of the Town of Needham and the Commonwealth of Massachusetts and Olin strives to be a good neighbor to the surrounding community. As citizens, students, student groups, and student organizations are responsible to the community of which they are a part and the college neither substitutes for nor interferes with the regular legal processes. Students are also accountable for offenses against the academic community. Therefore, an action involving a student in a legal proceeding in a civil or criminal court does not free the student from responsibility for their conduct in a college proceeding. If a student is charged in both jurisdictions, the college will proceed with its internal review according to its own timetable, which may or may not commence prior to the initiation or the completion of the applicable civil or criminal proceeding.