Student Conduct

De Anza College considers the following principles essential to its educational mission and community life:

• Mutual respect between students, faculty and staff; and administration
• Equity and inclusion for all members of our campus community
• Pursuit of studies with honesty and integrity
• Respect for college and personal property
• Compliance with all college, district, state and federal rules and regulations

These standards are intended to promote responsible student conduct and fair play. Students shall be subject to college discipline  for any of the following misconduct that occurs at any time on campus or at any off campus facility, including internet-based courses held on the worldwide web, or college-approved or sponsored functions:

• Academic dishonesty, such as cheating, plagiarism (including plagiarism included in student publications), or knowingly furnishing false information to the college or district. Academic dishonesty is the act of obtaining or attempting to obtain credit for academic work through the use of dishonest, deceptive, or fraudulent means
• Unauthorized preparation, giving, selling, transfer, distribution or publication, for any commercial purpose, of any contemporaneous recording of an academic presentation in a classroom or equivalent site of instruction, including but not limited to handwritten or typewritten class notes, except as permitted by any district policy or administrative procedure
•  Dishonesty, forgery, alteration, or misuse of college or district documents, records or identification
• Obstruction or disruption of teaching, research, administration, disciplinary procedures, or other college or dstrict activities, including its public service functions, or of other authorized activities
• Physical or verbal abuse of any person or conduct which threatens or endangers the health or safety of any such person; Causing, attempting to cause or threatening to cause physical injury to another person
• Bribery or offering to pay an employee or offering favors in exchange for preferential treatment including inflated grades, exam copies or other confidential information
• Causing or attempting to cause damage to college or district property or to private property on campus
• Stealing or attempting to steal college or district property or private property on campus, or knowingly receiving stolen college or ditrict property or private property on campus; committing or attempting to commit robbery, theft, larceny, or extortion
• Willful misconduct that results in injury or death to a student or to college or district personnel or which results in cutting, defacing, or other injury to any real or personal property owned by the college or district or on the campus
• Unauthorized entry to or use of college or district facilities
• Violation of college or district policies or of campus regulations including those concerning registration of student organizations, use of college or district facilities, or the time, place and manner of public expression
• Unlawful possession, use, sale, offer to sell, or furnishing or being under the influence of, any controlled substance as listed in California Health and Safety Code Section 11053 et seq., an alcoholic beverage, or an intoxicant of any kind; or unlawful possession of, or offering, arranging or negotiating the sale of any drug paraphernalia, as defined in California Health and Safety Code Section 11014.5
• Use, possession, or sale of any firearm, knife, explosive, or other object that could be classified as a weapon (unless the student has specific authorization from a college or district official)
• Disruptive behavior, willful disobedience, habitual profanity or vulgarity, or the open and persistent defiance of authority, or persistent abuse of college or district personnel; which includes failure to comply with a directive given by college or district personnel, in accordance with established policies
• Gambling on college or district property
• Hazing or any act that injures, degrades, or disgraces or tends to injure, degrade, or disgrace any fellow student or other persons
• Disorderly conduct or lewd, indecent or obscene behavior, conduct or expression on district-owned or controlled property, or at district sponsored or supervised functions;
• Willful or persistent smoking or vaping in any area where smoking has been prohibited by law or by regulation of the college or district;
• Theft or abuse of computer time, campus technology resources, including but not limited to:
  
  • unauthorized entry into a file, to use, read or change the contents or for any other purpose
  • unauthorized transfer of a file
  • unauthorized use of another persons identification, network credentials and/or password
  • use of campus technology resources to interfere with the work of another student, faculty member or college official
  • use of campus technology resources to send obscene or abusive messages, or to defame or intentionally harm other persons
  • use of campus technology resources to interfere with normal operation of the college computing system
  • abuse of campus technology resources for student’s personal benefit
  • use of campus technology resources to violate academic integrity standards
  • use of campus technology resources to violate any campus, district, State, Federal, policy, law, or regulation
  • use of technology in a manner that violates the Foothill-De Anza Community College District standards of student conduct
• Committing sexual harassment as defined by law or as set forth in Board Policy 4640
• Engaging in harassing or discriminatory behavior based on race, sex, religion, age, national origin, gender expression, sexual orientation, disability, or any other status protected by law, policy, or statute; violating any state or federal law prohibiting harassment, stalking, intimate partner violence, domestic violence, sexual misconduct or any other form of violence or harassment, including Title IX, Campus SaVE and/or Violence Against Women Act (VAWA)
• Engaging in expression which is obscene, libelous or slanderous, or which so incites students as to create a clear and present danger of the commission of unlawful acts on college or district premises, or the violation of lawful college or district regulations, or the substantial disruption of the orderly operation of the college or district
• Engaging in harassing and/or intimidating conduct or bullying against another student or a college employee through words or actions, including direct physical contact; verbal assaults, such as teasing or name-calling; social isolation or manipulation; and cyberbullying
• Persistent, serious misconduct where other means of correction have failed to bring about proper conduct