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Student Code of Conduct Revision AGC - Presentation 1 Lina Blair Amy Kudrna

Student Code Review Team Members • Amy Kudrna - Chemistry (Co-Chair) • Lina Blair - Student Life and Conduct (Co-Chair) • Carmen Andert - Mathematics • Chris Johnston - AD School of Arts and Sciences • Jason Schueller - Enrollment • Kimberly DeVries - Equal Opportunity Compliance • Pam Miller - AD School of Workforce Development • Rebecca Whitman - Campus Police Chief • Steve Henkelman - Machining • Sue Koons - Nursing • Thalia Guerra-Flores - Student Life and Conduct • Jimmie Baber - AD School of Workforce Development

Schedule of Revision • The Student Code of Conduct shall be reviewed every three years under the direction of the Student Conduct Administrator. • Revised 7/15/2010 • Revised 9/16/2014 • Revision scheduled for 2017-2018 academic year • Benchmarked with Henry Ford CC, Lansing CC, Washtenaw CC and Macomb CC

Revision Process • Student Code Review Team makes recommendations • AGC reviews, makes recommendations and endorses (with a focus on academically-related pieces) • Policy Review Team reviews, makes recommendations and approves • Cabinet/President reviews, makes recommendations and approves

Student Code of Conduct: Purpose The Student Code of Conduct outlines the behavioral expectations The College has of all of its students, including individuals and student organizations. The document includes specific behavior that is against College policy and/or local, state and federal law, the process followed to address the behavior and appeal procedures.

Current Student Code of Conduct: Highlights Section 1 • Jurisdiction • Definitions • Student’s Rights and Responsibilities • Section 2 • Academic Honesty - Examples and Consequences • Classroom Conduct - Examples and Consequences • General Conduct - 28 Regulations • Section 3 • Process and Procedures • Sanctions • Section 4 • Requesting a Hearing, Hearing Process, etc. • Final Appeal • Section 5 • Interpretation and Revision •

Preliminary Suggested Changes - General Change in gendered pronouns (he/she, his/hers) to gender neutral • pronouns (they/theirs) throughout Student Code of Conduct Clarification to definitions in Section 1 (College Officials, Employee, • Complainant, Student) Updated Equal Opportunity and Nondiscrimination Policy language • Updated to reflect Title IX definitions and policies • Removing outdated language (MySpace) • Removal of redundancy in language • Change ‘learning experience’ to ‘learning environment’ •

Section 1 - Definition Changes ADDITIONS Employee: Anyone employed by GRCC as faculty or staff, on a full-time, • part-time or volunteer basis. Student: addition of dual enrolled and middle college students • considered as GRCC students REMOVAL/REPLACEMENTS Cyberstalking removed in definitions and added into stalking regulation • Cyber Bullying removed in definitions and added into bullying regulation •

Changes in Section 1 Current Proposed Revision College officials : Administrative and Executive College officials : An employee • • Officers and their designees. designated to address a conduct-related issue. Responsibilities : The College expects all students to • conduct themselves as responsible citizens and Responsibilities The College members of the academic community. It is the • expects all students to conduct responsibility of each student to know, observe, abide by and adhere to GRCC’s Student Code of themselves as responsible citizens Conduct, rules and regulations. Additionally, and members of the academic students are to abide by all rules applicable to community. It is the responsibility of conduct in a classroom environment and at College-sponsored activities. Students by enrolling each student to know, observe, in the College, are automatically placed under the abide by and adhere to GRCC’s rules and regulations established by the College. Student Code of Conduct and Therefore it is the students’ responsibility to College policies. familiarize themselves the rules and regulations affecting them.

Section 2 - Revised Policy Changes • Clarify distinction between classroom penalties and conduct sanctions • Purpose: to give faculty more control in classroom penalties • Conduct reports, investigations and sanctions continue to go through the Office of Student Life and Conduct • This clarification of classroom penalties and conduct sanctions will be seen in both academic dishonesty and the classroom misconduct language • Appeal of classroom penalty information is provided in the code

Section 2 - Consequences of Academic Dishonesty at GRCC Current Proposed Revision Students who commit acts of Students who commit acts of academic • • dishonesty are subject to classroom penalties academic dishonesty are and conduct sanctions . Withdrawal from a subject to classroom and course does not exempt a student from any College sanctions. Withdrawal pending charges of classroom misconduct. from a course does not exempt a student from any pending The faculty member may also make a referral • to the conduct office for additional charges of classroom investigation and potential institutional misconduct. sanctions in addition to any one or more of the Any of the following sanctions • following penalties which may be imposed by may be imposed by the faculty the faculty member for any academic member for any violation of dishonesty violation: academic dishonesty:

Examples of Classroom Misconduct: Cell Phones and Electronics Proposed Revision Current Using cell phones or other • Using cell phones or other electronic • electronic devices that disrupt devices that disrupt the learning process or the learning process or teaching teaching environment is not allowed under most circumstances. The use of environment. Faculty members personal laptop computers, phones, etc. have the right to restrict the use may be acceptable in some classes; of electronic devices in their however they must be used only for note- classroom. taking or activities in direct support of the course objectives. Faculty members have the right to ask students to shut down any electronic devices.

Section 2-Consequences of Misconduct Current Proposed Revision • Students engaged in classroom misconduct • Students who commit acts of classroom are subject to classroom penalties and misconduct are subject to classroom College sanctions. Withdrawal from a course and College sanctions. In all cases, does not exempt a student from any students will have a right to use the pending charges of classroom misconduct. student appeal procedure (as described below.) Withdrawal from a • The faculty member may also make a course does not exempt a student from referral to the conduct office for additional any pending charges of classroom investigation and potential institutional misconduct. sanctions in addition to any one or more of the following penalties which may be • Any of the following sanctions may be imposed by the faculty member for any imposed by the faculty member for any classroom misconduct violation: violation of classroom misconduct:

Section 2 - Consequences of Classroom Misconduct Changes in penalties and sanctions for misconduct: • • Removed : • Assignment of a failing grade for the course • Referral to conduct office • Reasoning: Already included in sanctions/penalties: • Assignment of a reduced or failing grade on an assignment, paper, project or exam; • Reduction in the final grade for the course;

Section 2 - Consequences of Misconduct Current Proposed Revision • If the offense is egregious, • If removed from class for a threatening or repeated, the second offense, or if the first Director of Student Life and offense is egregious and/or Conduct or designee may involves threatening behavior, impose a temporary the student will be on suspension pending temporary suspension from investigation. that class pending investigation by the conduct office.

Section 2 - Consequences of Misconduct cont. Current Proposed Revision • In all cases, students will have • Appeals for Classroom Misconduct penalties imposed by the faculty a right to use the student member that result in a lowering of an appeal procedure (as overall grade should be directed to the described below.) Grade Grievance Process (http://www.grcc.edu/studentaffairs/stud entacademicgrievanceprocedure). Included in first paragraph of - • Appeals for sanctions imposed by the “Consequences of Classroom College conduct administrator should be Misconduct) directed to “Requesting a Hearing” the Student Appeal Procedure (as described in section 4 below).

Table Discussion Questions Have you encountered Classroom Conduct or Academic • Honesty issues that the Student Code of Conduct could have provided more guidance on? What changes do you suggest to help clarify the language • for students and faculty, particularly concerning Academic Honesty and Classroom Conduct? Do you support the team’s recommended changes as • outlined on these slides? If not, please provide suggestions/comments.