Welcome Letter

Dear Trinity Students:

During your undergraduate career, the relationships you forge with other students will serve as the bonds that shape our community and hold it together. Your interactions must be guided by principles of care, honesty, integrity, and civility. Together, we must foster inclusivity, promote agency, and create an environment conducive to our personal and collective growth and success.

All students should aspire to lead bold, engaged, and transformative lives that add value to our shared community. The community standards guidelines, policies, and procedures found in this handbook are presented to you as a foundation on which to structure your daily interactions. You are responsible for reading, understanding, and observing these guidelines, policies, and procedures. Should you have a question, we strongly encourage you to connect with your residential learning coordinators to discuss the values and communal principles we uphold as a College. They can speak with you individually or in groups and always welcome opportunities to engage in thoughtful discussions about the principles represented by the College’s policies.

At its core, our goal is to develop a strong community that is inclusive, respectful, caring, and healthy. We remain committed to creating and maintaining learning, living, and working environments that are safe, equitable, accessible, and inclusive for all members of our community. You and your peers help shape the culture of our community. Your engagement in thoughtful discussions and interactions with one another define our campus climate.

Immediately following this letter, you will find our Student Integrity Contract. Every year, new students sign it, and each day, students live it. This contract represents a commitment by students to maintain the highest standards of academic integrity and to realize their potential as mature and caring adults. Every student has the capacity at Trinity to self-govern and, to accomplish this, must hold themselves and one another accountable to our community standards.

Your active support of these policies and community standards along with your participation in the vibrant and diverse life of our College will move Trinity toward an inclusive community. We wish you the best in the coming year.

Sincerely,

Joe DiChristina

Vice President for Student Success and Enrollment Management

Maria del Carmen Flores

Associate Vice President for Student Life

NOTICE: The reader should take notice that every effort is made to ensure the accuracy of the information provided herein. Although Trinity College reserves the right to make changes to the Student Handbook at any time without prior notice should extraordinary circumstances necessitate it, the College acknowledges the value of the free and open exchange of ideas between students, faculty, and administration regarding policies affecting student life. Therefore, before making any changes to the Student Handbook that may have a significant impact on the campus community, Trinity will make every effort to provide at least a two-week notice to the student body and to allow for the campus community to offer comment regarding the proposed policy change unless a clear and present danger or change in state or federal law compels immediate action by the College.