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THE E BOOK 2017–2018 i THE E BOOK This book is a guide that sets the standard for what is expected of you as an Exonian. You will find in these pages information about Academy life, rules and policies. Please take the time to read this handbook carefully. You will find yourself referring to it when you have questions about issues ranging from the out-of-town procedure to the discipline system to laundry services. The rules and policies of Phillips Exeter Academy are set by the Trustees, faculty and administration, and may be revised during the school year. If changes occur during the school year, the Academy will notify students and their families. All students are expected to follow the most recent rules and policies. Procedures outlined in this book apply under normal circumstances. On occasion, however, a situation may require an immediate, nonstandard response. In such circumstances, the Academy reserves the right to take actions deemed to be in the best interest of the Academy, its faculty and its students. This document as written does not limit the authority of the Academy to alter its rules and procedures to accommodate any unusual or changed circumstances. If you have any questions about the contents of this book or anything else about life at Phillips Exeter Academy, please feel free to ask. Your teachers, your dorm proctors, Student Listeners, and members of the Dean of Students Office all are here to help you. Phillips Exeter Academy 20 Main Street, Exeter, New Hampshire Tel 603-772-4311 • www.exeter.edu 2017 by the Trustees of Phillips Exeter Academy v HISTORY OF THE ACADEMY Phillips Exeter Academy was founded in 1781 by A gift from industrialist and philanthropist Dr. John Phillips and his wife, Elizabeth, who Edward S. Harkness in 1930 established a resided in Exeter. In his deed of gift, Dr. Phillips method of teaching unique to Exeter and set out a series of standing regulations, which central to its teaching philosophy. The he termed the Constitution of the Academy, Harkness plan calls for an oval table in each directing that they be read at each annual classroom, with class size averaging 12 meeting of the Trustees. The following excerpts students and ample opportunity for Socratic serve to illustrate the founder’s high purpose: dialogue. The Harkness table places students at the center of the learning process and “An observation of the growing neglect of youth encourages them to learn from one another. must excite a painful anxiety for the event, and may well determine those whom their Heavenly Now in its third century, Phillips Exeter Benefactor hath blessed with an ability therefor, Academy affirms the shared vision of John to promote and encourage public free schools or and Elizabeth Phillips. Today, as in the past, academies, for the purpose of instructing Youth not the principal goal of the Academy is to link only in the English and Latin grammar, writing, goodness and knowledge, to develop the arithmetic, and those sciences wherein they were consciences and train the minds of students commonly taught, but more especially to learn so that they may usefully serve society. them the great end and real business of living. The education of youth, originally accom- “It shall ever be considered as a principal duty of plished through a curriculum rich in the the instructors to regulate the tempers, to enlarge traditional areas of classical languages, the minds, and form the morals of the youth rhetoric, logic and mathematics, has committed to their care. undergone constant development. During its most recent curriculum review, the faculty “But above all, it is expected that the attention affirmed its commitment to more broadly of instructors to the disposition of the minds distributed requirements in science, history and morals of the youth under their charge will and the humanities, forming the main thrust exceed every other care, well considering that of a curriculum that stresses knowledge in a though goodness without knowledge is weak liberal arts framework. and feeble, yet knowledge without goodness is dangerous, and that both united form the noblest character, and lay the surest foundation of usefulness to mankind.” THE E BOOK 2017–2018 TABLE OF CONTENTS STUDENT LIFE 1 ADMINISTRATIVE OFFICES 51 ADVISING 1 CAMPUS SAFETY 51 ACADEMICS 2 FACILITIES MANAGEMENT 51 ATTENDANCE 4 THE FINANCE OFFICE 52 DRESS CODE 6 GLOBAL INITIATIVES 52 THE DISCIPLINE SYSTEM 6 HUMAN RESOURCES 52 BULLYING, HAZING AND HARASSMENT 10 INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY 53 ALCOHOL AND DRUGS 11 PRINCIPAL’S OFFICE 53 OTHER PROHIBITED ACTIVITIES 11 NEW HAMPSHIRE STATE AND MANDATORY ACADEMY POLICIES 54 REPORTING LAWS 12 ACCEPTABLE USE POLICY 54 SEEKING HELP 14 INTERNET AND SOCIAL MEDIA POLICY 56 ACADEMY STUDENT ASSISTANCE PROGRAM CAMPUS SAFETY, EMERGENCY RESPONSE (ASAP) 15 AND PERSONAL SAFETY 57 SEXUAL MISCONDUCT POLICY 17 DRUG-TESTING POLICY 59 SEXUAL INTIMACY 19 MEDICAL LEAVE OF ABSENCE POLICY 59 COMMUNITY CONDUCT AND OUTSIDE AGENCIES 60 DISCRIMINATION POLICY 20 MEDIA AND PHOTOGRAPHY POLICY 60 PARENT POLICIES AND EXPECTATIONS 60 STUDENT INFORMATION AND GUIDELINES 23 PERSONAL LEAVE OF ABSENCE POLICY 61 BOARDING STUDENTS 23 POLITICAL SIGNS 61 DAY STUDENTS 30 RECYCLING GUIDELINES 61 FOR ALL STUDENTS 31 STUDENT PUBLICATIONS GUIDELINES 63 TUTORING POLICY 64 STUDENT RESOURCES AND SUPPORT 34 TUITION AND MANDATORY FEES 2017-18 65 DEAN OF STUDENTS OFFICE 34 OFFICE OF MULTICULTURAL STUDENT AFFAIRS 35 APPENDICES 67 DINING SERVICES 35 2017-18 STANDARDIZED TESTING SCHEDULE 67 HEALTH AND WELLNESS SERVICES 36 BUSINESS HOURS OF ACADEMY OFFICES 68 STUDENT ACTIVITIES 39 TRANSPORTATION IN THE EXETER AREA 69 STUDENT CLUBS AND ORGANIZATIONS 39 RESIDENT DORM FACULTY 70 COLLEGE COUNSELING 40 PROCTORS 71 LIBRARY 44 STUDENT LISTENERS 72 RELIGIOUS SERVICES 45 DAILY SCHEDULE 73 CAMPUS MAP 74 ADDITIONAL STUDENT SERVICES 46 ATMs 46 CASH TO CARD 46 EXETER BOOKSTORE 46 LAUNDRY 46 ACADEMY COMPUTING AND NETWORK RESOURCES 48 PHELPS ACADEMY CENTER 49 POST OFFICE 50 STUDENT LIFE FUNDAMENTAL PRINCIPLES. The Academy assumes that its students enter the school with a serious purpose and that conscience and good sense are a sufficient guide to behavior. The Academy expects honesty from its students. The faculty intends to develop among students a sense of responsibility for personal conduct and for the well-being of the larger community. To that end, the Academy encourages freedom, within reasonable limitations, and enforces rules defining those limitations, which are necessary to maintain relative freedom for all. ADVISING The Trustees of the Academy delegate to the faculty the Every new student is assigned a faculty member who responsibility for academic policies and procedures and serves as an adviser. Students are encouraged to for discipline. The dean of students is in charge of the consult their advisers both on school affairs and on administration of faculty policy in all matters concerning personal issues. Through communication with the student life, including discipline. All faculty members advisees’ parents, the adviser supplies an essential link accept the responsibility to advise students and to guide between family and school. their conduct at any time or in any place while they are under the authority of the Academy. The students, in turn, through their representatives, participate in the shaping of disciplinary policy by helping the faculty to define the essential regulations and to enforce them. 1 ACADEMICS COURSE SELECTION. Returning students at the Academy All courses taken for credit in the fall term of the ninth confer with their advisers before choosing programs of grade will receive official grades of “Pass” (P) or “No Pass” study for the subsequent year. Interim advisers and the dean (NP). Students, advisers and parents will receive unofficial of studies and academic affairs assist new students in their grades from the 11-point scale at the end of the fall term. course selections for the upcoming year. After students have These unofficial grades will not be included in the GPA selected a program of study, their families are notified of the calculation, nor will they be displayed on the transcript or selections. report card. The number of students in any course may be limited; any Students who have concerns about a course or faculty member announced course for which the enrollment or staffing is should consult with their adviser, the teacher, or, if necessary, deemed insufficient may be canceled. In choosing their the department chair or a dean. courses, students should refer to the Courses of Instruction catalog for the coming year, which is distributed at the time SCHOLASTIC ACTION. The faculty expects students to of course selection and available online. Students take five focus attention on the academic program and work to their academic courses each term. Some students take additional potential. When a student falls short of these standards, the partial-credit courses in Health and Human Development Academic Advising Committee meets to make a recom- and Music. Careful thought should be given to the choice of mendation for academic action. The recommendation, once courses for all three terms. voted on at the faculty meeting, becomes the action of the faculty and results in scholastic action: a formal expres- GRADING SYSTEM. Academic standards are high at Phillips sion of the school’s concern to both students and parents. Exeter Academy, and new students may find that their Scholastic action is not punitive. Rather, it alerts students, grades are lower than those they have received elsewhere. parents and advisers to the seriousness of the student’s dif- Academic work is graded on an 11-point scale, in which ficulties. It is hoped that this official warning will encourage A=11, A-=10, etc., down to E=0. The minimum passing students experiencing academic difficulty to improve their grade is D-.