Student Handbook - SUNY Canton

spondent to the Dean of Students or
his/her designee within four class days
of the respondent’s receipt of the written
decision.
Appeals decisions are final within the
campus judicial system.
12. In extenuating circumstances, or when
the College is in recess, the Dean of
Students or his/her designee has the authority
to convene an emergency Student
Faculty Hearing Board; similarly, the
Director of Residence Life or designee
has the authority to convene a temporary
Residence Hall Hearing Board. This
Board may be composed of one faculty
member and one staff person when a
student representative is not available.
15.91 SUNY Board of Trustees -
Rules for the Maintenance of
Public Order
The rules for the Maintenance of Public
Order provide overall rules which are clarified
and defined in the College’s Student Code of
Conduct and workplace/visitor rules. These
rules are implemented in compliance with
section 6430 of the Education Law and comprise
Part 535 of Title 8 of NYCRR. Copies
of this portion of the Official Compilation
are available for review at the Southworth
Library circulation desk and at the Office of
the Dean of Students.
16.0 Communication
(See Policies & Procedures Manual)
16.1 Official Mode
The official method by which SUNY
Canton communicates with its students will
be the campus e-mail system. Each student
will be issued a campus e-mail address to be
utilized by the college throughout the duration
of their enrollment at SUNY Canton
as the official mode of communication with
the student. It is each student’s responsibility
to check their e-mail on a regular and
timely basis.
16.2 Emergency Notifications
Timely Warnings and Emergency Notifications
1. What warrants a “timely warning” or
“emergency notification”
Timely Warnings shall be issued whenever
a Clery Crime that is considered to represent
a serious or continuing threat to students
and employees is reported to UPD or a local
police agency and has occurred within the
University’s Clery Geography. Whenever a
timely warning is sent it may be sent to the
STUDENT LIFE
entire Campus Community or to the relevant
population if technology allows.
Emergency Notifications shall be issued
when a significant emergency or dangerous
situation involving an immediate threat to
the health or safety of students or employees
occurs on the campus. As appropriate,
emergency notifications may be targeted at
only a segment or segments of the campus
community that is at risk. Emergency notifications
will be issued without delay unless
doing so would compromise efforts to assist a
victim or to contain, respond to, or otherwise
mitigate the emergency.
Who decides The Dean of Students/Chief
Student Affairs Officer, or a designee of the
Dean of Students/Chief Student Affairs
Officer in conjunction with the Chief of
University Police and/or other campus and
non-campus officials as appropriate, shall
confirm the existence of a situation that
may warrant a warning or notification and
determine if a timely warning or emergency
notification is warranted and the extent of
the notification as appropriate. In addition
to criminal incidents emergency notifications
may be issued in situations such as, but not
limited to:
1. Safety Related Issues:
• An incident that occurs ON any of our
campuses that affects the personal safety
and security of our population.
• An incident that occurs in close proximity
to the campus that may potentially
affect the personal safety and security
of our student, faculty and staff population.
2. Health Related Issues:
•A member of our population is diagnosed
with a serious or life threatening
communicable/infectious disease.
•Evidence of bio terrorism.
The only reason an immediate notification
for a confirmed emergency or
dangerous situation would not be issued
is if doing so will compromise efforts to:
assist a victim, contain the emergency,
respond to the emergency, or otherwise
mitigate the emergency.
2. How will a Timely Warning or an Emergency
Notification be Communicated
For Safety Related Issues: The means of
communication will be chosen by the Dean
of Students/Chief Student Affairs Officer or
the designee based upon the nature of the incident.
Possible means of communication are:
• E-mail to all students and/or faculty/
staff
• Postings in campus center, residence
halls, downtown and east campus as
applicable to the incident. Postings
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can be emailed as attachments to various
offices as indicated below
• Delivery of hard copy notification to
all residential suites
• Student Newspaper ad, based on timing
of the incident
• Posting of notification on University
Police Department web site
• SUNY NY Alert in the case of a critical
campus wide emergency
• Email to parents
• Post to web portal
For Health Related Issues: The means of
communication will be chosen by the Dean
of Students/Chief Student Affairs Officer or
the designee based upon the nature of the incident.
Possible means of communication are:
• Letters to students and/or parents
(communication to parents is extremely
minimal, most likely done in cases
of measles, mumps, or rubella. Viral
Meningitis would be communicated to
the parents whose students are directly
affected.)
• Letters to faculty and staff, if appropriate
• Posting of notification on the University
web-site
• Student Newspaper ad, based on timing
of the incident
17.0 Computer &
Network Use Policy
(See Policies & Procedures Manual)
Access to modern information technology
is essential to the State University of New
York with educational services of the highest
quality. The pursuit and achievement of
the SUNY Canton mission of education,
research, and public service require that the
privilege of the use of computing systems and
software, internal and external data networks,
as well as access to the internet, be made available
to all those of the SUNY community.
The preservation of that privilege for the
full community requires that each faculty
member, staff member, student, and other
authorized user comply with institutional
and external standards for appropriate use.
This policy applies to all SUNY Canton
computing and network resources, including
host computer systems, SUNY Canton sponsored
computers and workstations, software,
data sets, and communications networks
controlled, administered or accessed directly
or indirectly by SUNY Canton computer
resources or services, employees, or students.
Violators of this policy will be subject to
the existing student or employee disciplinary
procedures of SUNY Canton. Sanctions