General Information

Student Code of Conduct

Student Rights

1. Students have the right to experience a high quality learning environment, free from disruptions and distractions.
2. Students have the right to be treated with respect and dignity, free from harassment and/or discrimination.
3. Students have the right to make reasonable requests of other campus community members, including students, staff, and faculty.

4. Students have the right to feel safe on college campuses.
5. Students have a right to a smoke-free, drug-free, and alcohol-free learning environment.
6. Students have the right to express their ideas in writing, in speech, or by use of other media, within the guarantees of the law.
7. Students have the right to form clubs and organizations within the guidelines established by the Student Activities Board.
8. Students have the right to bring formal charges against other campus community members for violating the Student Code of Conduct or other college policies.

Student Responsibilities

1. Students are responsible to comply with all local, state, and federal policies, statutes, laws, and ordinances.
2. Students are responsible to comply with all college policies and procedures.
3. Students are responsible to interact in ways which will not interfere with the educational process and/or any MATC sponsored activity. Class disruptions are considered an interference with the educational process.
4. Students are responsible to take no action which improperly utilizes or disables safety equipment, exit signs, fire extinguishers, window screens, sprinklers, elevators, escalators, etc.
5. Students are responsible to make no threat, nor take any action, which could potentially cause physical harm to themselves or others. This includes sexual assault.
6. Students are responsible to make no threat, nor take any action that would alter and/or damage property owned by the college or other MATC community members.
7. Students are responsible to refrain from unauthorized entry or use of MATC property or facilities. This includes the unauthorized possession and/or use of keys and electronic access cards.
8. Students are responsible to refrain from the unauthorized or illegal use, possession, or distribution of illegal drugs and/or alcohol.
9. Students are responsible to refrain from the unauthorized use, possession, or distribution of weapons, explosives, and/or chemicals on MATC property or at MATC sponsored activities.
10. Students are responsible to be honest and furnish accurate information to all members of the MATC community. Honesty includes the absence of all forms of academic dishonesty. Academic dishonesty is defined as: Any behavior which results in a student giving or receiving unauthorized assistance or receiving credit for work that is NOT his/her own.
    
    Examples of academic dishonesty include: copying graded homework assignments from another student; working together on an assignment without being authorized by the instructor to do so; looking at another student's paper during an exam; copying another student's computer program or class project and submitting it as one's own; stealing or borrowing all or part of an exam; entering a computer file without authorization; providing one's work to another student to be copied and submitted for credit; giving someone answers to exam questions while the exam is being given; informing another student, who has not yet taken an exam, of questions that appeared on an exam in an earlier section of the class; giving or selling a term paper, report, drawing or computer program to another student for submission to an instructor; deceiving an instructor to improve one's grade; having someone take an exam for another student; falsifying data or a source of information; and plagiarism. Examples of plagiarism include: copying answers from a textbook to submit for a grade; quoting text or other works without citation, when requested by the instructor to present one's own work; submitting a paper purchased from a term paper service; retyping someone else's paper or report and submitting it as one's own; submitting another student's project, research paper, computer program, shop piece, as one's own.
11. Students are responsible for the behavior of any guest they escort onto the MATC campus or have accompany them at an MATC sponsored activity.
12. Students are responsible to ensure that gambling does not occur on MATC property or at MATC sponsored activities.
13. Students are responsible to comply with all reasonable verbal and written requests and/or directives from other members of the MATC community.
14. Students are responsible to take no action, which could be defined as discrimination. Discrimination is defined as: an unfairness or prejudice based on a person's age, race, creed, color, disability, marital status, sex, national origin, ancestry, sexual orientation, arrest record or conviction record, religion, parental status or pregnancy in its educational programs, admissions, activities, or employment practices.
15. Students are responsible to take no action, which could be defined as harassment. Harassment is defined as: unwanted, deliberate, or repeated unsolicited comments, slurs, demeaning references, gestures, graphic materials, physical contacts, solicitation of favors, advances or other adverse treatment.
16. Students who are members of formally recognized college clubs and organizations, which receive segregated funds through the Student Activities Board, are responsible to conduct themselves within the charters, constitutions, and guidelines of those organizations and of the Student Activities Board.
17. Students are responsible to be appropriately clothed and to wear shoes/sandals and shirts in MATC facilities for safety and health reasons.
18. Students are responsible to ensure that smoking or the use of tobacco products does not occur within any MATC facility, or designated campus smoke-free areas.
19. Students, who wish to circulate petitions in lounge areas and/or at main entrances, are responsible to obtain a facility permit from the Department of Facilities.
20. Student organizations that wish to sponsor fund raising activities, are responsible to: 1) obtain a facility permit; 2) solicit only in designated locations; 3) use the proceeds to fund their organizational activities; 4) clearly identify the sponsoring group to buyers; and 5) clearly label literature with the sponsoring group's name.
21. Students are responsible to refrain from using bicycles, skateboards, and rollerblades within MATC facilities, or as posted on the grounds of district property.
22. Students are responsible to conduct themselves appropriately when utilizing campus owned computer equipment. Students are responsible to refrain from the following: using an unassigned user ID; disguising one's account or machine identity; obtaining a password for another person's account; gaining unauthorized access to remote computers; sending mass mailings or chain letters; using abusive, profane, or sexually offensive information; advertising for commercial purposes; and monitoring or altering another person's data.
    
    Note: In some cases, such as the Police Science Program and some Health Occupations programs, students must also comply with additional standards. Police science students failing to recognize these standards may be withdrawn from one or more classes in the program at any time.
    
    The Health Occupations Department has specific policies, which apply to particular courses and programs. Copies of these policies are available from instructors and the division dean/chairperson upon request.
    
    Any violation of the Student Code of Conduct may serve as a basis for formal conflict management.

Last Modified: January 25, 2007

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