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2015–16 Graduate and Adult Programs Academic Catalog
Graduate Programs
The Cedarville Graduate Student Experience
The Cedarville Graduate Student Experience
Cedarville Covenant
We are a community of believers accountable to one another,
called to reflect the character of Jesus Christ and to be obedient
to His Word. We will be faithful in our support for the local
church and in our practice of the spiritual disciplines. We will
practice biblical principles of encouragement, exhortation,
and reconciliation. We commit ourselves to integrity, kindness,
purity, and self-control; and to continual growth in scholarship,
leadership, and service. Therefore, as members of the Cedarville
community, we regularly affirm our commitment to the Cedarville
Covenant with this pledge: We will love God and others, live with
integrity, and pursue excellence in all we do.
Standards of Conduct
At Cedarville University, we believe that the principles found
in the Bible should govern our daily lives. We recognize that
our appearance, words, and actions are a manifestation of our
relationship to Christ and a testimony to believers. In addition, we
believe that regular attendance and involvement in a local church
is evidence of a maturing relationship with Christ.
All graduate students are expected to adhere to the guidelines
below. You may access these guidelines online at
cedarville.edu/
gradstudentlife
.
• As a community of born-again believers, we believe that
pleasing and glorifying God in all that we do and say is an
expression of our gratitude to God’s grace and love in our
lives (1 Cor. 10:31; 2 Cor. 5:9). We believe it is important to
be people of integrity who are truthful in speech and honest
in conduct. Therefore, all should seek to serve Christ in
an atmosphere free from attitudes of distrust, dishonesty,
selfishness, damaging criticism, disrespect, favoritism,
unethical conduct, and irreverence (Psalm 15; Matt. 5:33–37;
Prov. 15:4; Rom. 13:9–10; Col. 3:8–9; James 2:1–13;
Gal. 3:26–29; Rom. 13:1–2; 1 Tim. 2:8).
• The University affirms its belief that our interpersonal
relationships are to reflect the biblical principle that all people
are made in God’s image and are equal in value. We believe
it is important to express our love for others through acts of
kindness as well as wholesome and uplifting speech
(1 Peter 5:5; Eph. 5:21; Phil. 2:3–11; Rom. 14:1–23;
1 Thess. 4:9; Col. 3:12–13). Therefore, it is the expectation
that all forms of harassment (which include racial/ethnic,
and sexual- and gender-based harassment) are prohibited.
In addition, we believe threatening, intimidating, coercing,
using abusive or vulgar language, violence or violent
threats, or interfering with the performance of other students
or employees are neither God-honoring nor acceptable
behaviors within or outside the work place and classroom..
• Because of our commitment to moral purity in both thought
and action (2 Cor. 7:1; 1 John 3:3), all acts of sexual
immorality are viewed as unacceptable behavior
(I Cor. 6:18–20; 1 Thess. 4:3–8).
• Because of our commitment to moral purity in thought and
action (2 Cor. 7:1; 1 John 3:3; Matt. 5:27–28), accessing,
possessing, and distributing or downloading pornography is
prohibited.
• We believe that God has given the gift of intimacy to
marriage (Hebrews 13:4). Therefore, we believe that God
has commanded that no intimate sexual activity should
occur outside of marriage. We believe that the only legitimate
marriage is the joining of one man and one woman
(Gen. 2:24; Rom. 7:2; 1 Cor. 7:10; Eph. 5:22–23).
• Based on our commitment to moral purity and the gift of
intimacy in marriage, we believe that all acts of sexual
immorality are sinful perversions of God’s gift of sex, i.e.,
homosexuality, lesbianism, incest, fornication, adultery
(Rom. 1:21–27; 1 Cor. 6:9; Gen. 2:24; Eph. 5:31). Therefore,
engaging in, living a lifestyle characterized by, or promoting
a lifestyle that is in contradiction to this biblical position is
prohibited.
Graduate students living on campus will have additional
standards of conduct expectations as a member of the
Cedarville University residential community. Behavior that is not
in compliance with the above standards of conduct or that are
a felony violation of state or federal law can result in corrective
action up to and including expulsion from the University.