5.14- Student Records – Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act (FERPA) A. Purpose To establish the rights related to the release of and access to student education records as outlined within the Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act of 1974 (FERPA). B. Policy The college will protect a student’s privacy and provide them access to…
5.36 Student Travel A. Purpose To establish travel protocols for students and sponsors to college-sanctioned activities and events occurring beyond the boundaries of college property. B. Policy The college will maintain a process for student travel that promotes safety, accessibility for all students, and is appropriately planned and coordinated. C. Procedures Scope This policy applies…
5.24 – Academic Integrity A. Purpose To define standards of academic integrity, to establish the authority to address infractions of academic integrity, and to establish due process for students to respond to possible sanctions imposed due to policy violations. B. Policy The college shall promote and enforce a culture of academic integrity. Students are expected…
5.20 – Suicide Prevention and Awareness A. Purpose To establish protocol for communicating the availability of suicide prevention and awareness resources to the college community. B. Policy The college will maintain suicide prevention and awareness resources and will communicate the availability of these resources to the college community as required by RSMo173.1200. C. Procedures OTC…
5.17 – Grievance Procedures for Students A. Purpose To describe the process for handling student concerns or grievances when there is no other college policy or procedure that governs the situation. B. Policy The college will provide procedures to resolve student concerns and grievances that do not clearly fall under any other published college policy…
5.39 – Tuberculosis Screening & Testing A. Purpose To establish a targeted tuberculosis screening and testing program as required for all institutions of higher education in Missouri under section 199.290 of the Missouri Revised Statutes. This program requires all newly hired faculty and new students enrolling in courses to be screened and/or tested for tuberculosis…
5.37 Drug and Alcohol Prevention A. Purpose To establish drug and alcohol prevention programming for students and employees pursuant to the Drug-Free Schools and Communities Act Amendments of 1989. B. Policy The college will maintain, communicate and enforce a comprehensive drug and alcohol abuse prevention program to students and employees, which will include the Biennial…
5.35 – Institutional Withdrawal A. Purpose To establish criteria and processes the college may utilize to withdraw a student when the student is unable or unwilling to voluntarily withdraw due to extraordinary circumstances. B. Policy The college will maintain an institutional withdrawal process for students whose behaviors meet the institutional withdrawal criteria. C. Procedures Institutional…
5.32 – Late Withdrawal A. Purpose To establish the late withdrawal eligibility criteria and procedures for students experiencing non-academic hardships, which interfere with or prevent the completion of coursework and course withdrawal by the published last date to withdraw/drop. B. Policy The college will maintain a late withdrawal petition process for students experiencing non-academic hardships,…
5.31 – Academic Fresh Start A. Purpose To establish criteria, guidelines and processes that allow returning students to recover from a deficient institutional grade point average (GPA). B. Policy Students who are readmitted to the college after an extended absence and who have an institutional GPA that does not reflect their current level of motivation,…