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“College” means Carroll College located in Helena, Montana.
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“Student” means individuals from the time of application for admission through the awarding of a degree. For additional information, review Article III:Jurisdiction
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"Faculty member” 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.
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“College official” includes any person employed by the College, performing assigned administrative or professional responsibilities.
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"Member of the College community” includes any person who is a student, faculty member, College official or any other person employed by the College. A person’s status in a particular situation shall be determined for students by the College Registrar and for employees by the Director of Human Resources.
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"Campus” includes all land, building, facilities, and property in the possession, owned, used, or controlled by the College.
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"Organization” means any number of persons who, as a group, have complied with the formal requirements for College recognition as a student organization or who are acting as an organization affiliated with Carroll College
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“Student Conduct Administrator” means any person or persons authorized by the Dean of Students to determine whether a student has violated the Carroll Code
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“Appellate Administrator” means any person or persons authorized by the Dean of Students to consider an appeal from a determination made by the Student Conduct Administrator regarding violations of the Carroll Code.
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"Shall” is used in the imperative sense.
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"May" is used in the permissive sense.
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"Cheating” means the act of using or attempting to use, in examinations or other academic work, material, information, computer programs or study aids which are not permitted by the instructor. Cheating includes, but is not limited to: using books, notes, or calculators, or copying from or conversing with others during an examination (unless use of such external aids is expressly permitted by the instructor); having someone else do research, write papers, create computer programs, or take examinations; doing research, writing papers, creating computer programs, passing examination answers to, or taking examinations for someone else; submitting large portions of the same work as part of the academic work for more than one course (unless such submission is requested by the student and permitted by the instructor); the acquisition without permission, of tests or other academic material belonging to a member of the Carroll College faculty or staff.
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"Plagiarism” is the act of appropriating or sharing (without instructor approval) written, computer programmed, artistic, or musical compositions or portions thereof; or the ideas, language, or symbols of another and representing it as the product of one’s own mind. In all academic areas it is imperative that work be original or that explicit acknowledgment be given for the use of another person’s ideas or language.
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"Harassment" means verbal, psychological, graphic and/or written abuse directed at another, beyond a reasonable expression of opinion, which:
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Is threatening or carries with it the intention to do bodily harm; or
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Disrupts or undermines a person's exercise of their responsibilities as a student, faculty or staff member including unreasonably interfering with a person’s educational or work performance.
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Harassment based upon discrimination as defined in Carroll College Title IX Policy and Procedures and Nondiscrimination Policy and Procedures is also proscribed conduct, but that type of harassment is adjudicated as provided under those policies and procedures.
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"Assault" is purposefully, knowingly, or negligently causing bodily injury to another, making physical contact of an insulting or provoking nature, or causing reasonable apprehension of bodily injury to another, which prevents the person from conducting his/her customary and usual affairs, puts the person in fear of his/her physical safety, or causes the person to suffer actual physical injury.
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"Preponderance of Evidence" means that a violation has been established by evidence that is more likely than not to be true.
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“Complainant” means any person who submits a charge alleging that a student violated the Carroll Code. When a student believes that she/he has been a victim of another student’s misconduct, the student who believes she/he has been a victim will have the same rights under the Carroll Code as are provided to the Complainant, even if another member of the College community submitted the charge itself.
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“Responding Student” means any student accused of violating the Carroll Code. A student group or organization sanctioned or recognized by the College may also be a respondent under the Carroll Code.