• Behave respectfully toward other students, faculty, staff, and community members.
• Make a serious effort toward achieving your academic goals. This includes coming to class prepared and on time, doing homework, and participating appropriately in class.
• Maintain your visa status. This usually means taking at least 18 hours per week of ELI classes.
• Obey federal, state, and local laws and university regulations.
• Be an example of academic honesty.

ELI students are also expected to follow the OSU Student Conduct Regulations. Here are a few specific OSU regulations:

Drugs & Alcohol

• You must not have or use illegal drugs.
• You must not have or use alcohol if you are under 21 years of age.

• You must not engage in sex without the full consent of the other person. When the other person is drunk, he or she is not giving consent.
• You must not threaten another person with sexual assault.

• You must not physically abuse or threaten to physically abuse someone else.

• Harassment is directly threatening another person with harm, or insulting another person who can hear or see you with words or gestures that will make that person violently angry. You are not allowed to threaten or harass others at OSU.
• You must not view pornography in a place where others can see it. This is sexual harassment.
• Be especially careful to avoid harassment based on race, color, national origin, religion, age, disability, marital status, sex, or sexual orientation. Comments that may seem ordinary to you at home may be harassment here in the US.

• You must not "cheat": use or try to use unauthorized materials, information, or study aids.
• You must not help someone else to be dishonest.
• You must not plagiarize: knowingly show the words or ideas of another person as your own.

• You must not disrupt university activities.
• You must not have guns or other dangerous weapons on university property without special permission.

• You must not steal or damage property.
• You must not use someone else's ID card as your own.
• You must not misuse university computer resources. This means, for example, that you must not use another person's username and password, you must not knowingly spread computer viruses, and you must not download illegally.