2012 Catalog PDF - Feather River College

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STUDENT righTS anD RESPONSIBiliTIES
The complete copy of Student Rights and Responsibilities may be found at www.frc.edu/studentservices/. Students
are expected to familiarize themselves with these responsibilities, which includes sections on:
• Rights of Expression
• Code of Student Conduct
• Academic Integrity
• Grievance Procedure
• Consensual Relationship Statement
• Children on FRC Properties
• Computer and Network Use Procedures
Rights of Expression
• Students are encouraged to examine and discuss all questions of interest to them, and express opinions
publicly and privately.
• The instructor in the classroom and in conference will permit free discussion, inquiry and expression of thought
by the student.
• Student performance will be evaluated solely on an academic basis, not on opinions or willingness to accept
the instructor’s personal beliefs or conduct unrelated to academic standards. Students are free to take reasoned
exception to the data or views offered in any course of study for which they are enrolled.
• As constituents of the academic community, students are free, individually and collectively, to express their
views on issues of institutional policy, instruction, the evaluation of instructors as it pertains to their course
content and on matters of general interest to the student body.
Student Organizations
• Students should be free to organize and join associations to promote their common interests. Campus club
advisors shall advise organizations in the exercise of their full rights and responsibilities.
• Student organizations (clubs) are required to have a club advisor (an FRC faculty or staff member), and must file
for a club charter with the Associated Students of FRC. At least one club member is expected to attend ASFRC
meetings on a regular basis to promote cooperative and coordinated activity planning among the various
campus organizations. Clubs have access to special services provided by the Associated Students as well as free
use of campus facilities for club events. Campus organizations must be open to all students.
• The membership, policies and actions of a student organization will be determined by vote of only those
persons who hold bona fide membership in that college organization.
Outside Speakers
• Student organizations shall have the right to recommend, invite, and to hear any person of their own choosing
as long as such speakers and topics are in accordance with federal, state and local laws, and guarantee the safety
of students and protection of public property.
• Guest speakers invited by students or student organizations should be directed by those policies, requirements,
and regulations as established by the Board of Trustees in order to ensure an appropriate and meaningful
contribution to the academic community.
• Students and student organizations are free to support causes that do not disrupt the regular and essential
operation of the college.
• It should be made clear to the academic community, and the community at large, that the public expressions of
students, student organizations and guest speakers represent only the views of the presenters, and not those of
Feather River College.
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