BHC Student Handbook 2022-2023

5. Alteration or sabotage of another student’s work, such as tampering with laboratory experiments; 6. Tampering with the election of any college-recognized student organization or student trustee election.

7. Unauthorized collaboration, including intentionally sharing or working with others in an academic exercise when such actions are not allowed or approved by the course instructor.

8. Aiding or facilitating academic dishonesty by permitting or assisting, attempting to permit or assist, another to engage in academic dishonesty, altering or sabotaging another student’s product or work.

3. Non-Academic Dishonesty a. Lying, materially misrepresenting information or furnishing false information to any college personnel, including a member of the Police Department. b. Forgery, alteration or misuse of any college document, record, form, or instrument of identification; 4. Disruptive Conduct Disruptive conduct is that which impairs, interferes with or obstructs the orderly conduct, process and functions of the College and includes, but is not limited to, the following: 1. Disruption or obstruction of any operation of the College which impairs, interferes with or obstructs the orderly conduct, process and functions of the College on any college premises, laboratory, field trips, or other area used for instruction. Disruptive conduct includes, but is not limited to: noise which is unreasonably excessive in the area, time or manner in which it occurs; threatening or obscene language or behavior; and classroom behavior which materially interferes with either (a) the instructor’s ability to conduct the class or (b) the ability of other students to profit from the instructional program.

2. Disruptive classroom behavior, including, but not limited to a willful failure to comply with a reasonable directive of the classroom instructor, intentional conduct that has the effect of disrupting classroom instruction or interfering with the instructor’s ability to manage the classroom.

3. Disruptive and/or repetitive use of cellphones, laptop computer, electronic tablets, and other electronic communication and entertainment devices (e.g., MP3s, CD players, tape recorders, video-graphic recorders, any such contrivance with photographic capability, etc.) in classes, labs, library, or any other instructional area when prohibited by the instructor or staff member.

4. Participation in a campus demonstration, which disrupts the normal operations of the College and infringes on the rights of other members of the College community; leading or inciting others to disrupt scheduled and/or normal activities within any campus building or area; intentional obstruction which unreasonably interferes with freedom of movement, either pedestrian or vehicular, on campus; 5. Obstruction of the free flow of pedestrian or vehicular traffic on college premises, or at college-sponsored or supervised functions; 6. Conduct performed in such unreasonable manner as to alarm another and which is disorderly; aiding, abetting, or procuring another person to breach the peace; 7. Conduct covered and/or prohibited in a BHC faculty member’s classroom syllabus.

5. Computer Misuse Students may be subject to criminal and civil penalties if they engage in the illegal distribution of copyrighted materials. Black Hawk College monitors network activity and utilizes network traffic shaping for stopping illegal file sharing and copyright use. a. Misuse of college equipment, computers or network resources for illegal or inappropriate purposes such as, but not limited to, gambling; accessing pornographic websites; sending threatening emails. b. Hardware theft or fraud, duplicating copyrighted software, unauthorized use, the subverting of restrictions, plagiarizing class programs, invasion of privacy rights, and unlawful use of the internet. Unlawful downloading of music, movies, or other copyrighted material is expressly prohibited, as is the illegal file sharing of such material.