1) STUDENTS RIGHTS
i.
Freedom of Access to Lisbon Business School
College. Lisbon Business School College an equal opportunity
institution, welcomes students
for admission to any course of study for which their qualifications
indicate they can benefit without regard
to race, color, sexual orientation, national origin, age, gender, veteran status, disability or religion.
ii.
Freedom from Discrimination Lisbon Business
School College provides educational opportunities without regard to race,
color, sexual orientation, national origin, age, gender, veteran status,
religion, or disability
iii.
Freedom from Harassment, in General The College
is committed to maintaining the campus community as a place of work and study free
from abuse, intimidation
and harassment, where
everyone is treated
with respect and courtesy.
iv.
Freedom from Sexual Harassment In accordance
with the Department
of Education, under
the guidance of the
Administrative office of Lisbon College as well as Office
of Civil Rights,
no member of
the College community may
sexually harass another. Consistent with the government regulations and College policy
v.
The Right to Dissent The College will respect
and defend the right of its members to lawful exercise of free speech and assembly on behalf of causes,
whether popular or unpopular, provided
such exercise does not disrupt normal
College functions, interfere
with the College’s
educational, instructional
vi.
and/or
administrative process, cause
personal injury, destroy
College facilities or
property or encompass
the physical occupation
of any campus
building, facility, or
parts thereof and is
compliant with
College procedure governing
manner and duration
of free speech
activities .
vii.
The right
to reasonably accurate
information in advertising,
recruitment and
viii.
orientation efforts.
ix.
The
right to free and peaceable inquiry, expression, association and assembly.
x.
The
right to engage in demonstrations as
long as the demonstration is not violent
and does not
disrupt the educational and administrative process
of the College
or interfere with the
rights of other
members of the
College community. Rules and procedures pertaining
to demonstrations are
available from the
College office.
xi.
The
right to reasonable use of College
facilities and services intended for
individual educational and social development.
xii.
The
right to participate freely in legal off-campus
activities related to local,
national, or international organizations for intellectual,
social, religious, political, economic
or cultural purposes without impairing official standing at Lisbon Business
School College.
xiii.
The right
to protection against
unreasonable surveillance, searches
or seizures by members of the College.
xiv.
The right
to establish a
College-recognized,
democratic student government
with authority to legislate and administer within its constitutional jurisdiction and within the
limits of the law, with normal democratic safeguards against abuse of power.
xv.
The right
to form organizations
within the College
for any lawful
purpose. The student
government constitution establishes
a procedure for
College sanction. Organizations
shall have the right to keep membership lists
confidential and solely for
their own use.
The names and
addresses of officers
or representatives will
be required by the College as a condition of registration or access to College funds or enjoyment
of College privileges.
xvi.
The right
of groups and
individual students to
distribute literature, within
existing College procedure, on the campus in areas generally available
to the public provided that the distribution of such written materials
xvii.
The
right to expect the College to provide reasonable space indoors and
outdoors lf or students and their organizations to post notices and
posters. Such notices and posters may
deal with subject
matter including, but not limited
to, notices of meetings
or events, and
expressions of positions
and ideas on
social or political topics. Designated
posting spaces shall
be established at
appropriate locations throughout
the campus with due regard to convenience and aesthetics. All notices and posters
must be date
stamped by the
appropriate office, which
may impose reasonable
restrictions on time and place.
xviii.
The
right to expect rules and regulations to be applied reasonably and impartially.
xix.
The right
to expect that procedural due process will be exercised before imposition
of disciplinary sanctions.
xx.
The right
to enjoy privileges
regardless of age,
gender, sexual orientation,
race, color, national origin, disabling condition, religion or
veteran status.
2) STUDENTS RESPONSIBILITIES
- Assault and Battery, physical attack or
battery includes but
is not limited
to the following activities, all
of which are prohibited by college threatening,
attempting or causing injury or bodily harm to a faculty and/o r
individual in outside of the classroom causing physical
contact with another
when the person
knows or should
reasonably believe that the other will regard the contact as
offensive or unwelcome spoken
or written assault
that is threatening or
carries with it
intention to do
bodily harm.
- Children or Guests on Campus Children or
guests are welcome on campus and must adhere to the following standards.
Children require appropriate supervision. Whenever children are in any
College facility, they need to be accompanied by a parent or guardian and
display appropriate behavior. Unattended children will be escorted to the
appropriate law enforcement officials. Students must
have prior faculty
approval before bringing
children or guests
into the classroom. This
practice is discouraged and should only be done as a final resort on a
short-term basis. The staff member
has the right
to ask the
parent or guardian
to remove disruptive children or guests even if they were initially
allowed to enter.
- Computer Offenses Students are held to
the same standard as outlined in the College’s Policy on Acceptable Use of
College Computing Resources. Intentionally
or knowingly giving
out passwords or other
confidential
information concerning
the computer security
system without proper
authorization is prohibited.
- “Fraudulent, harassing, or obscene [or
pornographic] messages and/or materials are not to be knowingly retrieved, transmitted or stored.
Users may not encroach on others’ use of computer resources. Activities defined
as encroachment are
determined by the
computer system
administrator and include, but are not limited to excessive use of
computer resources for trivial applications; sending
harassing messages; sending
frivolous or excessive messages, including chain letters,
junk mail, and
other types of
broadcast messages, either
locally or over
the Internet; using excessive amounts of storage; intentionally
introducing any rogue or malicious programs to SLCC hardware or software;
or physically damaging systems.”
- Disorderly Conduct in the Classroom The primary
responsibility for managing
the classroom rests
with the faculty.
Students who engage in
any misconduct that
result in disruption of
the classroom may
be directed by
the staff member to leave the classroom for the remainder of the
class period.
- Explosives and Weapons Possession or use
of weapons, explosives and fireworks on College property or during College activities is
prohibited, Violations of this policy may result in suspension or termination from the
College and prosecution under appropriate laws.
- Fraud. The College strictly prohibits
altering, falsifying, or otherwise misusing any College document or
- record.
In addition, furnishing false
information to the
College with the
intent to deceive
or
- obstruct
justice in any
way is unacceptable.
- Gambling/Betting, The College prohibits
unlawful gambling/betting, as per
United republic of Tanzania law, in any form at the College or at any
College sponsored event.
- Inappropriate Dress Standards are high
regarding students’ appearance. Attire
that interferes with
the classroom environment,
College business or College sponsored events may be in violation of the Student Code
of Conduct. For example: shoes are required indoors while on
campus.
- Littering Littering on the grounds and in
the buildings detracts greatly from the College atmosphere and is prohibited.
Materials, handouts or flyers distributed in parking lots are considered litter and are also prohibited.
- Misuse of Alcohol and Drugs Salt Lake
Community College has
the responsibility to
maintain an educational environment conducive to
academic and vocational achievement. The College
recognizes that the
use and abuse of
alcohol and other
drugs may interfere with
students' educational goals.
Therefore, Lisbon Business School College has a stringent
policy governing the
use of alcohol
and other drugs
- Personal Hygiene. Standards are high
regarding students’ hygiene. Hygiene
that interferes with the classroom environment, College business or
College sponsored events may be in violation of the Student.
- Smoking/E-cigarettes. Smoking in public
buildings, which includes College facilities, violates the laws of the
United Republic of Tanzania.
- Solicitation. Solicitation and
sales by students
and others on
campus is strictly
prohibited without prior approval from
the College office. Distributing
advertising materials, Leaflets or handbills or using audio equipment to
promote sales on College premises
without prior written approval is also prohibited.
- Unauthorized Activity No rally, parade,
demonstration, or similar activity shall be held at the College or at
any College sponsored event
unless organizers file
an activity plan
with the Dean
of Students office
in advance of the event.
- Unauthorized Use of College Resources. The
College prohibits the illegal distribution of copyrighted material, i.e. Uploading and downloading copyright
works, through peer-to-peer file sharing on campus networks.
- Unauthorized Entry or Use. The College
prohibits the unauthorized entry to or use of a College facility and/or
property. Vandalism or Theft. The College prohibits the abuse or theft of
College property or the property of students, faculty,
3) STUDENT SERVICES
Our Purpose And Values Students, first and always, are of extreme
importance to us. We are a personal bridge between the processes of the College
and the needs of our students. We
provide, in a
caring and ethical manner,
service, support and
personal growth for our students. We assist students and each
other with fairness, respect, integrity and care. We serve
people without regard
to race, ethnicity,
personal belief, disability,
age, or sexual orientation.
Our commitment to students
directs the way we make decisions, create programs and hire staff. We will
maintain within Student Services an environment that nurtures our values which
are diversity, community, honesty, people and service.
4) WELCOME TO LISBON BUSINESS SCHOOL COLLEGE
As members of
the academic community,
students enjoy the
privileges and share
the
obligations of the
larger community of
which the College
is a part.
With membership in
this community comes an
obligation, which is
consistent with goals
of personal and
academic excellence. This obligation is an acceptance of a code of
civilized behavior.
These are the guiding principles for students at Lisbon Business
School College:
“I will practice personal and academic integrity. I will
respect the dignity of all
Persons. I will respect
the rights and property of others. I
will discourage
racism, striving to learn from differences in people ideas
and opinions. I will
Demonstrate concern for others, their feelings and their
need for conditions,
Which support their work and development allegiance to these
ideals
obligates each student
to refrain from
and discourage behaviors
which
threaten the freedom and the respect all community members
deserve.”
The College is
committed to equitable,
civil, and concerned
treatment of all
individuals
regardless of age,
gender, race, color,
national origin, disabling
conditions, religion, sexual
Orientation or experienced person status. It is imperative that
students learn to recognize, understand and celebrate human differences. Colleges can,
and indeed must,
help their students
become open to
the differences that surround
them: race, religion,
age, gender, culture,
sexual orientation, physical
ability and nationality. These
matters are learned
best in settings
that are rich
with diversity, and
they must be learned if the ideals of human worth and dignity are to be
advanced. Any expression of hatred or prejudice is inconsistent with the
purposes of higher education in a free society. So long as intolerance exists
in any form in the larger society, it
will be an issue on College campuses. Lisbon Business School College is
committed to maintaining an environment free from prejudice. Student conduct regulations of Lisbon
Business School College are printed herein.
These regulations pertain
to all campuses,
centers, sites and
other locations where programs and activities of Lisbon
Business School College are conducted.
5) RESPECT FOR UNIVERSITY RESOURCES
All community members must respect the general resources and physical
property of the College. Such resources are assets in which community members
have a vested interest, as these resources specifically support the college
mission.
6) THE ACADEMIC CODE
Academic integrity protects and promotes the
College’s pursuit of its academic mission. Membership in the Lisbon Business
School College thus carries with it a responsibility for upholding the
College’s principles. All Lisbon members (students & staffs) are expected
to conduct themselves with integrity in their learning, teaching, research, and
writing. It is also incumbent on those who know or suspect that someone else
has violated Lisbon’s academic
Code to report their knowledge or suspicions to the
appropriate college authorities
7)
Community Values and Benefits
The interests and long-range welfare of the College
community are best served if all faculty, students, and staff feel a commitment
to the principles upon which the Academic Code is based. Staffs are urged to review
the procedures by which they evaluate student work and to avoid situations and
processes that may make cutting corners or obtaining unauthorized assistance
easy. Students are urged to consider that the public value of their education
depends on the integrity of the grading system, and that academic dishonesty in
any form dilutes the value of those grades. If they know of fellow students who
are cheating or taking unfair advantage of policies or procedures, they should
bring that to the attention of the Standing Committee on the Academic Code.
8) Basic Policy
- Academic achievement is
evaluated on the basis of work that a student produces independently. A
student who obtains credit for work, words, or ideas that are not the
products of his or her own effort is dishonest and in violation of
Lisbon’s academic Code. Such dishonesty undermines the integrity of
academic standards of the college. Infringement of the Academic Code
entails penalties ranging from reprimand to suspension, dismissal, or expulsion
from the College.
- Lisbon College students
are expected to tell the truth. Misrepresentation of facts, significant
omissions, or falsifications in any connection with the academic process
(including Change of Course permits, the academic transcript, or applications
for graduate training or
- Employment) also violate
the Code. This policy applies to currently enrolled students as well as
alumni/ae, insofar as it relates to Lisbon transcripts and other records
of work at Lisbon Business College.
- A student’s name on any
exercise (e.g., a theme, report, notebook, performance, tests, computer
program, course paper, quiz, or examination) is regarded as assurance that
the exercise is the result of the student’s own thoughts and study, stated
in his or her own words, and produced without assistance, except as
quotation marks, references, and footnotes acknowledge the use of printed
sources or other outside help. In some instances an instructor or
department may authorize students to work jointly in solving problems or
completing projects; such efforts must be clearly marked as the results of
collaboration. Where collaboration is authorized, students should be very
clear as to which parts of any assignment must be performed independently.
- Unless permission is
obtained in advance from the instructors of the courses involved, a
student may not submit the same exercise in more than one course. Students
who perceive the possibility of an overlapping assignment should consult
with their instructors before presuming that a single effort will meet the
requirements of both courses.
- Misunderstanding the Code
will not be accepted as an excuse for dishonest work. If a student is in
doubt about work in a particular course, he or she should consult the
instructor of the course or one of the academic deans in his or her
appropriate division so as to avoid the charge of academic dishonesty.
- Offenses Against the
Academic Code, Use of sources In preparing assignments a student often
needs or is required to employ outside sources of information or opinion.
All such sources
- should be listed in the
bibliography. Citations and footnote references are required for all
specific facts that are not common knowledge and about which there is not
general agreement.
- New discoveries or debatable
opinions must be credited to the source, with specific references to
edition and page even when the student restates the matter in his or her
own words.
- Word-for-word inclusion of
any part of someone else’s written or oral sentence, even if only a phrase
or sentence, requires citation in quotation marks and use of the
appropriate conventions for attribution. Citations should normally include
author, title, edition, and page. (Quotations longer than one sentence are
generally indented from the text of the essay, without quotation marks,
and identified by author, title, edition, and page.)
- Paraphrasing or
summarizing the contents of another’s work is not dishonest if the source
or sources are clearly identified (author, title, edition, and page), but
such paraphrasing does not constitute independent work and may be rejected
by the instructor. Students who have questions about accurate and proper
citation methods are expected to consult reference guides as well as
course instructors. copyright infringement Improper use of copyrighted
materials can also constitute infringement
of the Academic Code when it compromises the
- integrity of the academic
process.
- A piece of work presented
as the individual creation of the student is assumed to involve no
assistance other than incidental criticism from any other person. A
student may not, with honesty, knowingly employ story material, wording,
or dialogue taken from published work, including websites; film, video,
and DVDs; radio and television programs; and lectures or other sources,
without full acknowledgment.
- Examinations, Quizzes, and
tests in writing examinations and quizzes, the student is required to
- Respond entirely on the
basis of his or her own memory and capacity, without any assistance
whatsoever except such as is specifically authorized by the instructor.
- Cheating on tests examinations
and quizzes can cost a student to get suspension from the college
authority associated with some penalties for his/her dishonest behavior.
- Take-home examinations or
assignments laboratory work and Assignments Notebooks, homework, reports
of investigations or experiments, and computer code projects must meet the
same standards as all other written work. If any of the work is done
jointly or if any part of the experiment or analysis is made by anyone
other than the writer, acknowledgment of this fact must be made in the
report submitted. Obviously, it is dishonest for a student to falsify or
invent data.
- Registration documents. Change
of Course Permits, also known as Add/Drop slips, become
- official College documents
once they are processed by the Registrar’s Office. Registration
transactions are mechanically clocked and dated; the original copy is
retained by the Registrar.
- Students are handed a
receipt, which is also an official document. Any alteration of the receipt
to use as evidence of adding or dropping a course, of changing a grade
option, or of gaining entrance to a course constitutes a serious violation
of the Academic Code. Other offenses
- In addition to fraudulent
uses of sources or tampering with registration documents as described
above, academic dishonesty includes a number of other offenses that
circumvent procedures
- set up to produce fair
grades
- All cases of suspected
academic dishonesty in the College shall be referred to the Case
Administrator of the Academic Code, who shall be an academic consultant
who appointed by the College Principal.
- Staffs and students are
urged to report their suspicions so that all members of the College community
will feel equally responsible for academic honesty, and so that repeat
offenders may be identified.
- The person alleging a
violation of the Code shall provide copies of the work in question and
describe in an accompanying narrative the nature of the alleged violation.
In cases of plagiarism, the person making the charge shall provide copies
of original sources, if available, marking plagiarized phrases, sentences,
and/or paragraphs, and shall indicate borrowings in the text of the
accused and in original sources.
- In the case of an
examination, the person making the charge shall provide copies of the
examination in question, indicate specifically the grounds for the charge,
and explain his or her process of discovery. Other alleged offenses
against the Academic Code shall be documented with equal thoroughness and in equal detail.
- All cases of suspected
academic dishonesty will be screened by the Case Administrator, in
consultation with staff involved in the case and expert witnesses if
needed. The Case Administrator determines whether or not a case requires a
formal hearing. Such decisions are not considered final or binding and may
be changed on the basis of new information or a shift in judgment.
- The accused student is
permitted to consult a Lisbon Staff or administrative advisor on matters
of preparation for the hearing, hearing procedures, and possible outcomes.
The Case Administrator will provide the accused student with a list of
persons from within the College who, by prior experience and interest, can
provide knowledgeable advice.
- Hearings, deliberations
and decisions on penalties, culpability, or innocence shall be made by a
Standing Committee on the Academic Code, consisting of a dean from the
accused student’s
- college (but not the Case Administrator),
plus two staff members to be chosen from a standing pool of six. In the
event that two faculty members are not available at the scheduled time for a Code Committee
hearing, an academic consultant may
fill the place of one or both of the faculty members.
- No person serving as an
accused student’s advisor can also serve as a member of the Academic Code
Committee for that hearing. The Academic Code Committee’s procedures are
administrative in nature and concern internal College affairs;
accordingly, the deliberations of the Standing Committee need not be
subject to formal rules of civil procedure or evidence. The
meetings/hearings need not be open to the public, the accused does not
have a right to legal counsel at the meetings/hearings, nor shall legal counsel
be part of the appeal process. committee findings.
- Appeals Process. An
undergraduate student who has been found in violation of the Academic Code
may appeal the Committee’s ruling to the Dean of the College.
- Academic Honesty. Honesty
is an expectation at Lisbon Business School College. This means that each
student at Lisbon will adhere to the principles and rules of the
College and pursue academic work in
a straightforward and truthful
manner, free from
deception or fraud.
- Forms of Academic
Dishonesty Cheating:
Presenting others’ work
as one's own
or assisting another
student to do
so in the classroom, lab
or the Testing
Services. Cheating may also
occur when a
student violates the conditions governing an examination.
Examples of cheating include, but are not limited to the following: using
oral, written, visual, or other forms of communication intended to give or
receive, improper assistance, looking at or copying another's work, use of
unauthorized materials (texts, notes, calculators, etc.), taking an exam
for another student, having someone else take the student’s exam, altering
one's work after an exam has been returned and before resubmitting it,
obtaining and/or using an upcoming exam ahead of test time
- Misrepresentation:
Falsifying information. This includes, but is not limited to the
following: having another person
represent or stand in for oneself in circumstances where one's attendance and/or performance is
required, misrepresenting class
attendance, presenting false academic credentials, submitting someone
else's work as one’s own, submitting
work originally submitted for
one course to
satisfy the requirements of another course
without prior consent of
the current instructor. It is assumed that the current instructor expects the work
to be original, forging or using another's signature, altering or
destroying academic records and documents, presenting false data,
experimental or physical results Out-of-Class
- Work: Collaborating on or aiding out-of-class
work when prohibited by the Instructor. Such unauthorized activity
includes, but is not limited to the following: receiving unauthorized
outside help on take-home exams or assignments, consulting with others’
about homework, laboratory reports, etc., copying another's homework,
laboratory reports, etc. and submitting it as one's own Plagiarism: Using another person's ideas, evidence,
or words without proper
acknowledgment or
conveying the false
impression that the
arguments and writing
in a paper
are one’s own.
Plagiarism includes, but is not limited to the following: acquiring
by purchase or otherwise, a part of or an entire document of work which is
- represented as one's own
representing the ideas,
data, or writing
of another person
as one's own
work, even though some
wording, method of
citation, or arrangement of
evidence, ideas, or arguments have been altered
concealing the true sources of information, ideas, or argument in any
piece of work Other Academic Violations:
- Violations of academic
policy considered as academic dishonesty include, but are not limited to
the following: removing materials
from the library without proper authority; infringing on the rights of
other students to fair and equal access to academic resources duplicating
course materials expressly forbidden by the instructor, using tape
recorders or other
recording devices in
a classroom when
not specifically authorized
to do so by the faculty member or Disability Resource Center, ignoring or
willfully violating class or laboratory instructions or policies
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