{"id":54782,"date":"2025-07-24T15:43:57","date_gmt":"2025-07-24T19:43:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/student-conduct-community-standards\/?page_id=54782"},"modified":"2025-07-24T15:43:57","modified_gmt":"2025-07-24T19:43:57","slug":"restorative-practices-resolution-options","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/student-conduct-community-standards\/restorative-practices-resolution-options\/","title":{"rendered":"Restorative Practices Resolution Options"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Bates College offers a number of options for utilizing restorative and voluntary methods for resolving a case of alleged misconduct. Based on the allegation and the needs of the college, community, and the parties involved, the Assistant Dean or Senior Associate Dean of Students may refer a case to be resolved using one of the restorative options described below. A Respondent or Complainant may also request that a case be resolved in this manner. All involved parties must confirm, in writing, that they agree to resolve the matter through the Restorative Practices Resolution pathway before proceeding.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Restorative Practices Resolution Options is an umbrella category that includes the following mechanisms for resolving a case of misconduct:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Restorative Resolution<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Voluntary Agreement<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Voluntary Withdrawal<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>Below is an overview of the Restorative Resolution process:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div data-wp-interactive=\"core\/file\" class=\"wp-block-file\"><object data-wp-bind--hidden=\"!state.hasPdfPreview\" hidden class=\"wp-block-file__embed\" data=\"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/student-conduct-community-standards\/files\/2025\/07\/Conduct-Handouts-What-to-Expect-3.pdf\" type=\"application\/pdf\" style=\"width:100%;height:600px\" aria-label=\"Embed of Restorative Resolution.\"><\/object><a id=\"wp-block-file--media-311fbaec-3af0-479a-9ac1-aa54f6ffe581\" href=\"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/student-conduct-community-standards\/files\/2025\/07\/Conduct-Handouts-What-to-Expect-3.pdf\">Restorative Resolution<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/student-conduct-community-standards\/files\/2025\/07\/Conduct-Handouts-What-to-Expect-3.pdf\" class=\"wp-block-file__button wp-element-button\" download aria-describedby=\"wp-block-file--media-311fbaec-3af0-479a-9ac1-aa54f6ffe581\">Download<\/a><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>Below is an overview of the Voluntary Agreement &amp; Voluntary Withdrawal process:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div data-wp-interactive=\"core\/file\" class=\"wp-block-file\"><object data-wp-bind--hidden=\"!state.hasPdfPreview\" hidden class=\"wp-block-file__embed\" data=\"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/student-conduct-community-standards\/files\/2025\/07\/Conduct-Handouts-What-to-Expect-4.pdf\" type=\"application\/pdf\" style=\"width:100%;height:600px\" aria-label=\"Embed of Voluntary Agreement\/Withdrawal.\"><\/object><a id=\"wp-block-file--media-582d7594-d577-4d06-9eb2-cc8e41cd4958\" href=\"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/student-conduct-community-standards\/files\/2025\/07\/Conduct-Handouts-What-to-Expect-4.pdf\">Voluntary Agreement\/Withdrawal<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/student-conduct-community-standards\/files\/2025\/07\/Conduct-Handouts-What-to-Expect-4.pdf\" class=\"wp-block-file__button wp-element-button\" download aria-describedby=\"wp-block-file--media-582d7594-d577-4d06-9eb2-cc8e41cd4958\">Download<\/a><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>More information about Restorative Practices Resolution Options can be found in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/student-conduct-community-standards\/files\/2025\/07\/Code-of-Student-Conduct-7.1.2025.docx-1.pdf\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/student-conduct-community-standards\/files\/2023\/08\/Code-of-Student-Conduct-8.22.23.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">The Code of Student Conduct and Disciplinary Procedures<\/a>, beginning on page 19.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bates College offers a number of options for utilizing restorative and voluntary&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_hide_ai_chatbot":false,"_ai_chatbot_style":"","associated_faculty":[],"_Page_Specific_Css":"","_bates_restrict_mod":false,"_table_of_contents_display":false,"_table_of_contents_location":"","_table_of_contents_disableSticky":false,"_is_featured":false,"footnotes":"","_bates_seo_meta_description":"","_bates_seo_block_robots":false,"_bates_seo_sharing_image_id":0,"_bates_seo_sharing_image_twitter_id":0,"_bates_seo_share_title":"","_bates_seo_canonical_overwrite":"","_bates_seo_twitter_template":""},"class_list":["post-54782","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry","with-sidebar"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/student-conduct-community-standards\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/54782","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/student-conduct-community-standards\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/student-conduct-community-standards\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/student-conduct-community-standards\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/student-conduct-community-standards\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=54782"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/student-conduct-community-standards\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/54782\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":54786,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/student-conduct-community-standards\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/54782\/revisions\/54786"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/student-conduct-community-standards\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=54782"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}