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a personal failure or problem to a resident assistant, a member of the Student Life

Division, a faculty or staff member, or an administrator, every effort will be made to

address and resolve the issue through mediation, discipleship, counseling, or other

means of intervention. CIU’s expectation is that any student disclosing a problem

or failure should also be willing to enter into a plan to address the problem. In such

cases, the student will demonstrate ongoing commitment to CIU’s mission and

educational goals by submitting to guidance and conscientious follow-through

with any measures prescribed to overcome the issue.

I.

General Philosophy

A. The Student Life Judicial Process at Columbia International University

(CIU) is designed to assist individual and community spiritual formation

and to aid the university in maintaining a grace-filled environment

conducive to Christian living and learning. Personal growth and maturity

are encouraged most when each member of the CIU community

practices self-responsibility and shares the responsibility of creating

a community of caring involvement to support and confront one another

when appropriate.

B. The responsibility to confront one another in a loving manner should

flow out of natural and intentional relationships with friends, peers,

faculty, and staff. This approach, if functioning properly, should enable

spiritual formation with confrontation and accountability as needed to

take place on a personal, informal level.

C. The Scriptures do not describe a precise model for discipline. However,

they do prescribe that when necessary we are to confront one another in

love. The university’s model has been adopted from Matthew 18:12-22.

1.

Attitude – Matthew 18:12-13, 21-22: “‘What do you think? If any man

has a hundred sheep, and one of them has gone astray, does he

not leave the ninety-nine on the mountains and go and search for

the one that is straying? If it turns out that he finds it, truly I say

to you, he rejoices over it more than over the ninety-nine which have

not gone astray....’ Then Peter came and said to Him, ‘Lord, how

often shall my brother sin against me and I forgive him? Up to seven

times?’ Jesus said to him, ‘I do not say to you, up to seven times, but

up to seventy times seven’” (NASB).

2.

Process – Matthew 18:15-17: “‘If your brother sins, go and show him

his fault in private; if he listens to you, you have won your brother.

But if he does not listen to you, take one or two more with you, so

that by the mouth of two or three witnesses every fact may be

confirmed. If he refuses to listen to them, tell it to the church; and

if he refuses to listen even to the church, let him be to you as a

Gentile and a tax collector’” (NASB).

D. This biblical model suggests a redemptive attitude and a progression

with confrontation. Members of the CIU community are expected to apply

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