Washington Administrative Code › Title 132V - Tacoma Community College › Chapter 132V-121 - Code of student conduct › Section 132V-121-030 - Definitions

Current through Register Vol. 24-14, July 15, 2024
The definitions and phrases in this section apply throughout
				this chapter.
Academic misconduct
is the violation of college
				policies (e.g., tampering with grades, taking part in obtaining or distributing
				any part of an exam prior to the scheduled testing time).
Calendar day
means all days of the month, not just
				instructional days. In cases where a specified due date falls on a weekend or
				holiday, the working day closest to the date due will be used (i.e., if the
				seventh day deadline falls on Saturday the document will be due on
				Friday).
Cheating
includes, but is not limited to, when a
				student misrepresents that he or she mastered information on an academic
				exercise.
College
means Tacoma Community College main campus
				and any other campus or college facility which may be created by the board of
				trustees.
College employee
includes any person employed by
				the college performing assigned administrative or professional
				responsibilities.
College premises
includes all land, buildings,
				facilities and other property in the possession of or owned, used, controlled,
				or leased/rented by the college, and agencies or institutions that have
				educational agreements with the college, extending to associated electronic
				communication including web sites and distance learning classroom
				environments.
Complainant
means any person who alleges that a
				student violated the code of student conduct.
Conduct hold
means a block prohibiting the student
				from registering for classes until he or she receives clearance from the
				student conduct administrator.
Fabrication
is the use of invented information or
				the falsification of research or other findings with the intent to deceive or
				mislead.
Faculty
means any person hired by the college to
				conduct classroom or teaching activities or who is otherwise considered by the
				college to be a member of its faculty.
Instructional day
means any regularly scheduled
				instructional day designated in the instructional calendar, including summer
				quarter, as a day when classes are held or during final examination week.
				Saturdays and Sundays are not regularly scheduled instructional days.
May
is used in the permissive sense.
Member of the college community
includes any
				person who is a student, faculty member, college employee, or volunteer. A
				person's status in a particular situation will be determined by the student
				conduct administrator.
Plagiarism
includes, but is not limited to, the
				inclusion of someone else's words, ideas or data as one's own work.
Policy
means the written regulations of the
				college as found in, but not limited to, the code of student conduct, college
				web site, college catalog, and college administrative manual.
Respondent
means any student accused of violating
				the code of student conduct.
Student conduct administrator
means a college
				employee authorized by the vice-president for student services to impose
				consequences upon any student(s) found to have violated the code of student
				conduct.
Student conduct appeal board
means members of the
				college community authorized by the vice-president for student services to hear
				an appeal by a student of a student conduct administrator's determination and
				imposed consequences for an alleged violation of the code of student
				conduct.
Student
means any person who is admitted to or
				enrolled for classes through the college, including any person in affiliated
				distance learning courses. Admitted or enrolled students who withdraw after
				allegedly violating the code are considered students.
Will
is used in the imperative
				sense.
Statutory Authority:
				  RCW
				  28B.50.140(13). 11-24-031,
				  §
										132V-121-030, filed 12/1/11,
				  effective 1/1/12.