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Student Policies

UA Cossatot Attendance Policy

Class attendance is mandatory! The UAC policy on attendance is below. Your instructor will drop you from your class when the maximum number of absences is exceeded. However, if you know you need to drop a class, please complete at Drop Form with Student Services. This is the only way you can be guaranteed that you will be dropped and receive a refund or “W” on your transcript.

Classes meeting twice weekly in regular (Fall/Spring) terms

Students may miss a maximum of 4 class meetings

Classes meeting once weekly in regular (Fall/Spring) terms

Students may miss a maximum of 2 class meetings

Classes meeting daily in regular (Fall/Spring) terms

Special attendance policies will be developed by the Division Chair

Online Classes

Students must make a substantial contribution weekly to establish attendance. Students may fail to meet this requirement a maximum of two times per semester.

Classes meeting in 8 week terms

Students may miss a maximum of 2 class meetings for classes meeting twice per week

Students may miss a maximum of 4 class meetings for classes meeting 4-5 times per week

Classes meeting in 6 week terms

Students may miss a maximum of 2 class meetings

Classes meeting in 4 week terms

Students may miss a maximum of 1 class meeting

UA Cossatot Academic Integrity Policy

Academic Integrity is defined as a commitment to five fundamental values: honesty, trust, fairness, respect, and responsibility. Academic dishonesty includes any act that gives an unfair advantage or is damaging to the reputation or performance of the academic community.

Such acts may include, but are not limited to:

Theft of or unauthorized access to an exam, answer key or other graded work from previous course offerings.
Copying answers, data, or other information (or allowing others to do so) during an examination, quiz, laboratory experiment, or any other academic exercise in which the student is not expressly permitted to work jointly with others.
Using any device, implement, or other forms of study aid during an examination, quiz, laboratory experiment, or any other academic exercise without the faculty member's permission.
Use of an alternate, stand-in or proxy during an examination.
Copying from the examination or work of another person or source.
Submission or use of falsified data.
Using false statements to obtain additional time or other accommodation.
Unauthorized Collaboration / Collusion
Misrepresenting facts (e.g., providing false information to postpone an exam, obtain an extended deadline for an assignment, or even gain an unearned financial benefit).
Begging.
Multiple submissions—submitting essentially the same written assignment for two courses without authorization.
Any other acts (or attempted acts) that violate the basic standard of academic integrity.
Falsifying or inventing any information, citation, or data; involvement in actions unbecoming to students in good standing or potentially damaging to the College reputation or that of the members of its academic community of students and scholars.

Plagiarism is defined as the representation of the words or ideas of another as one's own in any academic work. Avoiding plagiarism:

Direct quotations must be identified by quotation marks, or by appropriate indentation (block text) and must be cited properly according to the format (MLA Style, APA Style, or Chicago Style) as appropriate for the particular course requirement.
Material paraphrased or summarized from any source is acknowledged with citations to indicate the exact source of reference.
Information that is common knowledge, such as names of leaders of prominent nations, basic scientific laws, etc., need not be cited. The sources of all facts or information obtained in reading or research that are not common knowledge among students in the course must be acknowledged.
Material cited in the text must be noted in a Works Cited page. Materials contributing to understanding of the subject but not quoted or paraphrased in the text of the paper must be cited in the bibliography.
Additionally, papers that have been previously submitted by the writer to the same or another class are considered self-plagiarism.
Papers that contain more than a specific amount of quoted material (as defined by individual instructors), even though correctly cited, are considered to violate the definition of plagiarism.

Disciplinary actions could include any of the below:

Warning: Instructors reserve the right to give a warning to the student, lower the grade, or assign an F in the course, according to the instructor’s discretion and determination of the severity of the offense. Instructors may also require the student to attend a specified number of meetings at the Educational Resource Center (ERC) to address the problem. Instructors must file the first and/or subsequent offense reports and the disciplinary action with the Office of the Vice Chancellor of Academics.
Probation: During probation, a student may still enroll and attend classes and participate in college events and programs. However, organization, department, divisional, or national by-laws or policies may prevent students from participation in a leadership or organizational role. Once this period is concluded without additional acts of misconduct, the student is returned to good standing with the college.
Suspension: During the period of suspension, the student is considered not to be in good standing with the college and is not allowed to attend classes or participate in college related events and programs. Once this period is concluded, without additional acts of misconduct, the student is returned to good standing with the college.
Expulsion: The student may not enroll again at any UA Cossatot campus.

Aggravating and extenuating factors taken into consideration by the Vice Chancellor of Academics when assigning disciplinary sanctions may include:

Severity of academic misconduct
Prior acts of academic misconduct
Level of maturity in assuming responsibility/accountability for the misconduct
Status of student (i.e. transfer versus first-year enrollment) and year in school
Other circumstances (e.g., academic achievement, familial issues, emotional disturbance, etc.)

Student Grievances

Non Grade Issues
UA Cossatot does not tolerate actions by students or staff that interfere with student learning and safety. Students have the right to grieve an action by an employee or another student if the action related to improper conduct including but not limited to harassment of any kind, bullying, threatening another individual or the college, or terroristic threats.

Complaints for issues unrelated to improper conduct may be made to the appropriate Division Chair or program director who then has the ultimate responsibility to resolve the complaint.

Steps to be used in a formal, non-grade related grievance can be found in the Student Handbook and Catalog.

Grade Issues
If a student believes an error in a grade has occurred, the student must first visit with the instructor. If unresolved, the student should initiate a review of the grade no later than three weeks after the beginning of the next semester.

Steps to be used in a formal, grade related grievance can be found in the Student Handbook and Catalog.

The grievance form is attached.

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