Student Conduct Violations

Student Misconduct Brief Definitions

View full description of student misconduct, Washington Administrative Code (WAC) 132I-126-100.

• Academic dishonesty: Any act of academic dishonesty, including but not limited to cheating, plagiarism, fabrication, collusion, or academic misconduct.
• Other dishonesty: forgery, alteration, submission of falsified documents or misuse of any college document, record or instruction of identification.
• Obstruction or disruption:  Obstruction or disruption of any instruction, research, administration, disciplinary proceeding or other college activity.
• Abuse of Others:  Assault, physical abuse, verbal abuse, threat(s), or intimidation of another person or property.
• Cyber-misconduct: Cyber-stalking, cyber-bullying or online-harassment.
• Property Violation: Damage to, or theft or misuse of real or personal property or money of the college or any member of the college community.
• Failure to comply with directive: Failure to comply with the direction of a college officer or employee who is acting in the legitimate performance of his or her duties
• Weapons: Possession, wearing, transporting, storage or presence of any firearm, dagger, sword, knife or other cutting or stabbing instrument.
• Hazing: Any initiation into a student organization or any pastime that causes or is likely to cause bodily danger, or serious mental or emotional harm.
• Alcohol, cannabis,drug, and tobacco: The use, possession, delivery, sale or being under the influence of any alcoholic beverage or marijuana. While state law permits the recreational use of cannabis, federal law prohibits such use on college premises. The use of tobacco, electronic cigarettes in any building owned, leased or operated by the college or in any location where such use is prohibited.
• Lewd conduct: conduct which is lewd or obscene, including indecent explosure, excluding breast feeding
• Discriminatory Harassment: Discriminatory conduct against a student or an employee due to a protected status
• Sexual Discrimination : Sexual harassment, sexual intimidation, sexual violence.
• Harassment or Bullying: Unwelcome and offensive conduct that is directed at a person unrelated to a protected class.
• Retaliation: Retaliation against any individual for reporting or addressing allegations or violations.
• Misuse of electronic resources: Theft or other misuse of computer time or other electronic information resources of the college.
• Unauthorized access: Unauthorized possession, duplication, or other use of a key, key card or other restricted means to access college property.
• Safety violation: Any non-accidental conduct that interferes with or compromises any college policy, equipment or procedure relating to the safety of the campus community.
• Violation of other laws or policies: Violation of any federal, state or local law or other college policies.
• Ethical violation: The breach of any generally recognized and published code of ethics or standards of professional practice.

Title IX Violations: Sexual Harassment

View description of the Prohibited conduct under Title IX in the WAC 132I-126-515

• Quid pro quo harassment: A college employee conditioning the provision of an aid, benefit, or service of the college on an individual’s participation in unwelcome sexual conduct.
• Hostile environment: Unwelcome conduct that a reasonable person would find to be so severe, pervasive, and objectively offensive that it effectively denies a person equal access to the college’s educational programs or activities, or employment.
• Sexual assault: Sexual assault includes the following conduct:
  (a) Nonconsensual sexual intercourse: Any actual or attempted sexual intercourse (anal, oral, or vaginal), however slight, with any object or body part, by a person upon another person, that is without consent and/or by force. Sexual intercourse includes anal or vaginal penetration by a penis, tongue, finger, or object, or oral copulation by mouth to genital contact or genital to mouth contact.
  (b) Nonconsensual sexual contact: Any actual or attempted sexual touching, however slight, with any body part or object, by a person upon another person that is without consent and/or by force. Sexual touching includes any bodily contact with the breasts, groin, mouth, or other bodily orifice of another individual, or any other bodily contact in a sexual manner.
  (c) Incest: Sexual intercourse or sexual contact with a person known to be related to them, either legitimately or illegitimately, as an ancestor, descendant, brother, or sister of either wholly or half related. Descendant includes stepchildren and adopted children under the age of eighteen.
  (d) Statutory rape: Consensual sexual intercourse between someone who is eighteen years of age or older and someone who is under the age of sixteen.
• Domestic violence: Physical violence, bodily injury, assault, the infliction of fear of imminent physical harm, sexual assault, or stalking committed by a person with whom the victim shares a child in common, by a person who is cohabitating with or has cohabitated with the victim as a spouse, by a person similarly situated to a spouse of the victim under the domestic or family violence laws of the state of Washington, or by any other person against an adult or youth victim who is protected from that person’s acts under the domestic or family violence laws of the state of Washington, RCW 26.50.010.
• Dating violence: Physical violence, bodily injury, assault, the infliction of fear of imminent physical harm, sexual assault, or stalking committed by a person:
  (a) Who is or has been in a social relationship of a romantic or intimate nature with the victim; and
  (b) Where the existence of such a relationship shall be deter-mined based on a consideration of the following factors:
  (i) The length of the relationship;
  (ii) The type of relationship; and
  (iii) The frequency of interaction between the persons involved in the relationship.
• Stalking: Engaging in a course of conduct directed at a specific person that would cause a reasonable person to fear for their safety or the safety of others, or suffer substantial emotional dis-tress.