STANDARDS OF STUDENT CONDUCT

Brazosport College assumes that students eligible to perform on the college level are familiar with the ordinary rules governing proper conduct and that they will observe these rules as a matter of training and habit.  The institution accepts the concept that where its interests as an academic community are involved, the special authority of the institution should be asserted.

Breaches of Conduct

The college regards the following as illustrations of misconduct that will result in action by the appropriate college authority.  Notation of disciplinary action imposed upon students shall be made a part of the student’s permanent file in the Office of the Dean of Student Services.  Misconduct shall include, but not be limited to, the following:

1. Scholastic dishonesty – including, but not limited to, cheating on a test, plagiarism, and collusion.  Cheating on a test includes:  copying from another student’s test paper; using test materials not authorized by the person administering the test; knowingly using, buying, selling, stealing, or soliciting, in whole or in part, the contents of an un-administered test or a test that may be used again; and the unauthorized transporting or removal, in whole or in part, of the contents of an un-administered test or a test that may be used again.  Plagiarism shall be defined as the appropriating, buying, receiving as a gift, or obtaining by any means, another’s work and the unacknowledged submission or incorporation of it in one’s own written work.  Collusion shall be defined as the unauthorized collaboration with another person in preparing written work for fulfillment of course requirements.  Students determined to be guilty of cheating, plagiarism, or collusion shall be subject to dismissal from the class with a failing grade.  A second offense may be cause for suspension from college.

2. Interference with teaching, research, administration, or the college’s subsidiary responsibilities through “disorderly conduct” or “disruptive behavior.”

3. Unauthorized use of college property.

4. Refusal to provide identification when requested to do so by a college official.

5. Violations of the Penal Statutes of Texas or of the United States.

6. Endangering the health or safety of others including, but not limited to, assault, physical abuse, verbal abuse, threats, intimidation, harassment, or coercion.

The Dean of Student Services shall consider and take appropriate disciplinary action when violation of law, college rules and regulations, and other breaches of conduct by students are reported.