The purpose of this study was to conduct a survey of existing student codes of conduct found in university student handbooks for answers to these questions: (1) What are the stated purposes and values of student conduct codes? (2) What are the rationale that universities use to justify policies regarding the non-academic lives of students? (3) How are codes developed and revised? (4) What trends can be seen in code development? (5) Which student handbooks have particular policies dealing with nineteen specific colleges and universities. Each code was evaluated according to nineteen variables. An effort was made to outline the philosophic rationale used to justify codes, to determine methods used to establish and revise the codes, to state values and purposes, and to list trends. Conclusions were drawn on the basis of the findings. (WS)