1.   “Chief Student Services Officer” is the Vice President of Student Services, who has been designated by the College President to administer student affairs and be responsible for administering the College's Student Code of Conduct and related disciplinary procedures.

2.   “Cheating” includes, but is not limited to: (1) use of any unauthorized assistance in taking quizzes, tests, or examinations; (2) dependence upon the aid of sources beyond those authorized by the instructor in writing papers, preparing reports, solving problems, or carrying out other assignments; or (3) the acquisition, without permission, of tests or other academic material belonging to a member of the College faculty or staff.

3.   “College” means Pueblo Community College (PCC).

4.   “College Official” includes any person employed by the College, performing assigned administrative or professional responsibilities.

5.   “College premises” includes all land, buildings, facilities, and other property in the possession of, owned, used, or controlled by the College (including adjacent streets and sidewalks).

6.   “College suspension or expulsion” means an involuntary separation of the student from the College for misconduct apart from academic performance for a specified period of time not to exceed one/two academic terms. Suspension differs from expulsion in that after the stated time period the student is eligible for re-admission. Expulsion is a separation for more than two academic terms; student is not eligible for re-admission unless at the end of the separation he/she can prove that the behavior that resulted in the expulsion has been resolved. Students may be suspended from a class, organization, use of a College facility or an activity if in the sole determination by an authorized College employee the conduct is in violation of the Code. Suspension or action is subject only to an appeal to the Chief Student Services Officer to ensure that the action was taken pursuant to college policies. Students may be suspended from one class period by the responsible faculty member; longer suspensions can be done only in accordance with college procedures.

7.   “Day” refers to a calendar day unless otherwise noted.

8.   The “Vice President of Student Services” is the Chief Student Services Officer who has been designated by the College President to be responsible for the administration of the Student Code.

9.   “Fabrication” includes, but is not limited to, intentional and unauthorized falsification or invention of any information or citation in an academic exercise.

10. “Facilitating Academic Dishonesty” includes, but is not limited to, intentionally or knowingly helping or attempting to help another to commit an act of academic dishonesty.

11. “Faculty member” means any person hired by the College to conduct classroom activities.

12. “Impartial Decision Maker” is the individual/committee designated by the College President to hear student disciplinary appeals.

13. “May” is used in the permissive sense.

14. “Member of the College community” includes any person who is a student, faculty member, College official or any other person employed by the College. The Vice President of Student Services shall determine a person’s status in a particular situation. The community of Pueblo Community College includes students who enrolled in PCC courses at any location which includes the Pueblo Campus, the Fremont Campus in Cañon City, the Southwest Campus in Durango and Cortez, and any other locations where PCC classes or activities are conducted.

15. “Notice” means a written communication served upon the student when given by personal delivery or mailing by certified mail to the address the student has filed with the College’s Admission and Records Office. If notice is mailed, student shall be given three (3) additional days to respond.

16. “Organization” means any number of persons who have complied with the formal requirements for College recognition.

17. “Plagiarism” includes, but is not limited to, the use, by paraphrase or direct quotations, of the published or unpublished work of another person without full and clear acknowledgment. It also includes submitting examinations, themes, reports, drawings, laboratory notes, undocumented quotations, computer-processed materials, or other material as one's own work when another person has prepared such work or copied from another person. It also includes the unacknowledged use of materials prepared by another person or agency engaged in the selling of term papers or other academic materials.

18. “Policy” is defined as the written regulations of the College as found in, but not limited to, the Student Code, the College Catalog, and student handbooks that are written for specific programs at the College.

19. “Sanction” refers to the action taken by the College against students who have been found in violation of the Student Code of Conduct and/or college discipline related policies.

20. “Shall” is used in the imperative sense.

21. “Student” includes all persons taking courses at the College, both full-time and part-time, pursuing both credit and non-credit undergraduate courses and those concurrently attending secondary or post-secondary institutions and Pueblo Community College. Persons who are not officially enrolled for a specific term but who have a continuing relationship with the College are considered “students.”

22. “Unauthorized Collaboration” is intentionally sharing information or working together in an academic exercise when such actions are not approved by the course instructor.