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Student Complaint and Hearing Process Every effort will be made to first resolve conflicts through informal discussions with the involved parties. If this fails, a written complaint may be filed as outlined below. In computing any time limit specified under this process, Saturdays, Sundays, official school closings, and holidays will be excluded. The Vice President of Student and Educational Services has the authority to adjust time lines as deemed necessary because of extraordinary circumstances. A. Complaint 1. A complaint alleging violations of a College rule and/or regulation may be filed in writing against any student through the Department of Public Safety on a State of Michigan Standard Incident Report Form, UD-107. Complaints must be filed within a reasonable length of time. This report shall then be forwarded to the Office of the Vice President of Student and Educational Services (or designee) for action. 2. After consultation with the student involved and after undertaking other investigtions that may be appropriate under the circumstances, the Vice President of Student and Educational Services or designee shall take one of the following actions: a. Dismiss the complaint. b. Conduct an informal hearing and invoke a sanction if the alleged violation is admitted. c. Refer to a Case Review Officer selected from a list prepared by September 1 each year by the Office of the President and named within three working days of the receipt of the complaint, barring unforeseen circumstances. 3. The action taken by the Office of the Vice President of Student and Educational Services (or designee) will be communicated to the student in writing. B. Case Review Purpose: To consider complaints referred by the Office of the Vice President of Student and Educational Services (or designee) and to recommend appropriate action to be taken by the Office of the Vice President of Student and Educational Services. 1. The Case Review Officer will conduct a case review, normally including discussion with all parties involved, prepare a written report, and recommend that one of the following actions be taken by the Office of the Vice President of Student and Educational Services: a. Dismiss the complaint. b. Invoke a specific sanction. c. Activate the Formal Hearing Panel. 2. The Case Review Officer will make a recommendation within five working days of receiving the complaint, barring extenuating circumstances. 3. Action by the Office of the Vice President of Student and Educational Services shall be communicated to students in writing. C. Formal Hearing Panel 1. Members of the Formal Hearing Panel shall serve for one year (September 1 through August 31 of the following year) and include: a. A non-voting chair designated by the Office of the Vice President of Student and Educational Services who has not previously ruled on the case. b. Three students selected by the Student Senate Committee. c. One faculty selected by the Faculty Executive Committee. d. One staff member selected by the Senate President. e. A sufficient number of alternates shall be designated to assure full panel representation when a hearing is scheduled. 2. The Formal Hearing may be requested: a. By the student filing a written request with the Office of the Vice President of Student and Educational Services within five working days following notification of the action taken or b. By the Office of the Vice President of Student and Educational Services. 3. Within 10 working days of the receipt of a written request for a formal hearing, the Office of the Vice President of Student and Educational Services shall convene the Hearing Panel. The student will be advised of the date, time, and place of the scheduled hearing. 4. The Formal Hearing Panel will review all previous actions and conduct a formal hearing. Within 8 working days, barring extenuating circumstances, the Panel shall make a ruling specifying its findings. Such ruling may result in: a. Confirmation of the action of the Office of the Vice President of Student and Educational Services. b. Dismissal of all or a portion of the complaint. c. Instructions to the Office of the Vice President of Student and Educational Services to invoke a specific sanction or initiate other disposition as the Hearing Panel deems appropriate under the circumstances. 5. The decision of the Formal Hearing panel will be communicated to the student in writing 6. The decision of the Formal Hearing Panel shall be final except that action involving suspension or dismissal from the College must be ratified by the Office of the President before implementation. 202 Delta College 2009-2010
Public Information Posting Guidelines Students wishing to post information (i.e. ads for sale or rent of personal property, notices of Delta meetings and special events, announcements of Delta student activities, etc.) are requested to take the information to Instructional Support Services (J102) for approval. The complete guidelines including who may post, what may be posted and where to post, are available at Instructional Support Services (J102) or at 686-9515. Electronic Resources Access and Use Guidelines 1. By accessing College electronic information systems you assume personal responsibility for their appropriate use and agree to comply with all applicable College policies and procedures as well as external networks’ policies and procedures, local, state and federal laws and regulations. 2. You are solely responsible for your access and use, and may not transfer or share your passwords or account except as expressly authorized in writing by the Executive Director of the Office of Information Technology (OIT). 3. Delta College electronic resources are provided to support the college mission. Uses such as private business use or use for personal gain, non-profit activities, advertising and fundraising not related to the college are prohibited. Excessive personal use for activities such as game playing, financial transactions or communicating with family and friends is also prohibited. 4. Uses that threaten the integrity of any system or its contents, the function of resources accessed through the system, the privacy or safety of anyone, or that are illegal are forbidden. 5. Misuse can lead to penalties up to and including loss of system access, employment termination or expulsion from classes or from the college. In addition, some activities may lead to risk of personal legal liability, both civil and criminal. Use common sense: the same rules of courtesy, ethics, morality and law apply here as elsewhere. 6. All persons accessing the College’s electronic resources are covered by these guidelines, whether faculty, staff, students, trustees, volunteers, emeritus or retired persons, guests, or any other user. 7. All electronic resources of the College are covered by these guidelines, including without limitation all networks, supporting backbones and links, stand-alone computers, output devices, including printers, shared computers, and connecting resources of any kind, including any external networks. 8. You should not assume that anything received, sent or stored on any of these systems is private. The College generally, and system administrators specifically, will respect the privacy of users. However, these systems are not provided or intended for sending or receiving private or confidential communications. If material is stored electronically rather than in paper files, it must be just as accessible to others who need access to those files as any paper file would be. In addition, system administrators have access to all mail and user access requests and will monitor them as necessary to assure efficient performance and appropriate use. If access discloses improper or illegal use, it may be reported and penalized. Legal process, including requests for information under the Freedom of Information Act, may also compel disclosure. 9. Each user must respect the privacy of every other user. You may not attempt to access, copy, modify or otherwise view or use the passwords, data, or electronic resources of any other user, except as expressly authorized in writing by the Executive Director of the Office of Information Technology (OIT). 10. You may not represent yourself as someone else, or send messages that appear to originate from someone else (“spoofing”). 11. You have free speech and academic freedom rights in electronic forms of communication as you do in other forms of communication. However, your responsibilities may be somewhat different because of the nature of the medium. Electronic messages may be accessible to unintended audiences. The College will not impose restraints or monitor content of communications except as required by applicable law and system administration requirements. Your communications are subject to such laws, including those regarding others’ rights to privacy, licensing or copyright, prohibition of defamation, or prohibition of harassment or stalking, and the consequences of violations can be severe. 12. Your access to resources of the College, including access to electronic resources, is a privilege and not a right. 13. You must observe classroom and computer lab policies and procedures, and comply with instructions of support staff in the computer labs and OIT staff. In particular, you will vacate workstations or the facility and will surrender other resources (such as printers and software) promptly when asked to do so both at closing times and when necessary to permit access by others. 14. You should assume that anything you access may be copyrighted. Absence of a © notice does not mean that the material is not copyrighted. That means that, for example, before you download a document, an image, or any other media to your web page, you should ask the author’s permission. 15. You have full responsibility for statements made via the electronic resources of the College, including statements on any personal web pages. Such statements do not represent the opinions of the College or any other member of the College community. Your personal web page should include the following disclaimer at the bottom of the first page: “This space is provided as a service by Delta College. Views expressed do not necessarily reflect those of the College.” 16. The following list is provided as an illustration, but not an exhausitve list, of the kinds of uses that could subject you to penalties by the College or by outside authority: • Harassment, such as repeated unwanted communication or communication that threatens • Violation of others’ privacy • Destruction or damage to equipment, software or data of the College or others • Violation of computer system security • Use of computer accounts or access codes without permission, or permitting another unauthorized person to use accounts or access codes • Violation of copyright or software license agreements • Negligent or deliberate inappropriate use of the resource in ways that degrades service for other users, including viruses, Trojan Horses, worms and the like • Academic dishonesty • Violation of College policy or local, state or federal law • Using computer resources for any purpose which is criminal, unethical, dishonest, damaging to the reputation of the College, or likely to subject the College to liability. • “Spamming” or the non-commercial equivalent, defined as sending a large volume of unsolicited e-mail which is irrelevant to most if not all recipients. 17. Consequences and process will depend on the violation. When required to protect others or system integrity, immediate termination, removal of pages or other materials, or suspension of user privileges may occur. Otherwise, the user will normally be notified of the alleged infraction and will have an opportunity to respond to a person or body separate from system administration, and will have an opportunity to appeal. The process used will depend on the nature of the alleged infraction, and could be heard under the Judicial Process, Senate Policy 2.065; Student Violation of College Rules and Regulations, Senate Policy 8.045; Disciplinary Action, Support Staff Policies and Procedures 1.12; Affirmative Action or Sexual Harassment complaint procedures, or other appropriate college procedures, or could be referred to outside legal authorities where violations of local, state or federal law are involved. Penalties imposed may range from warnings to suspension of privileges for a temporary, definite, or indefinite period, to termination of employment or expulsion from classes or from the College, to civil suit or criminal prosecution and the penalties resulting from those actions. 18. Delta College reserves the right to monitor, manage, and control the usage of these resources and to make changes in these quidelines without prior notice. Delta College 2009-2010 203
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