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COPYRIGHT INFRINGEMENT IS PROHIBITEDCopyright laws protect original works of authorship. The owner of a copyright has the exclusive right to theoriginal work, including the right to copy the work, distribute the work, display or perform the work publicly,and create derivative works. A copyright interest attaches to an original work that is “fixed in any tangiblemedium of expression,” including traditional works like books, photographs, architectural drawings, music,drama and sculpture, as well as works affected by new technologies, like movies, electronic media, webpages, software, multimedia works and databases. The use of file-sharing networks to download and sharecopyrighted works without permission from the copyright owner – like software, music, movies, TV shows,games and images – violates copyright laws. Both the person who makes an illegal copy of a copyrightedwork available and the person who receives or downloads an illegal copy have violated the copyright laws. Inmost instances, a student must obtain permission from the copyright owner in order to copy, distribute,display or perform a copyrighted work in any medium for any purpose.Any copyright infringement, including, without limitation, distribution of copyrighted material throughunauthorized peer-to-peer file sharing, in connection with a student’s enrollment in a program of study at theschool or conducted by a student through the use of any of the school’s equipment or information systems isprohibited and violates both the Conduct section of the School Catalog and the law. Any student whoengages in copyright infringement will be subject to discipline by the school, which may include, withoutlimitation, the suspension or termination from one or more courses the student is taking or the student’s entireprogram of study at the school and the referral to the proper authorities. Copyright infringement may alsosubject the student to civil and criminal liabilities. A summary of the penalties for violating federal copyrightlaws include: unlimited actual damages proven for each act of copyright infringement; up to $30,000 for each act of copyright infringement that is determined not to be willful; up to $150,000 for each act of copyright infringement that is determined to be willful; and criminal penalties.CREDIT FOR PREVIOUS EDUCATION OR EXPERIENCEA student may request credit for courses in the student’s program of study at the school based on the student’sprevious postsecondary education or experience, by submitting a written request to the Registrar.1. Previous Postsecondary EducationFollowing the Registrar’s receipt of the student’s written request, the school may grant the studentcredit for course(s) in the student’s program of study based on the student’s previous postsecondaryeducation at a different institution, if the student satisfies all of the following requirements:20
a) The student provides the school with an official transcript from each educational institution awardingany credits that the student desires to transfer to the school to satisfy specific course requirements ofthe student’s program of study at the school. If the educational institution is located (i) in the U.S., itmust be accredited by an accrediting agency recognized by the U.S. Department of Education, or (ii)outside the U.S., it must be accredited or similarly acknowledged by an agency deemed acceptable tothe school in its discretion.b) The subject matter of the course(s) represented by the credits that the student desires to transfer to theschool to satisfy specific core course requirements of the student’s program of study at the school isdetermined, in the school’s discretion, to be substantially the same as the subject matter of such corecourse(s).c) The subject matter of the course(s) represented by the credits that the student desires to transfer to theschool to satisfy specific general education course requirements of the student’s program of study atthe school is determined, in the school’s discretion, to be in the same area of study (i.e., thehumanities, composition, mathematics, the sciences and the social sciences) as the area of study ofsuch general education course(s). In addition, any credit for courses that the student desires to transferto the school to satisfy any Science course requirements in the Nursing associate degree programmust have been earned by the student within seven years of the Registrar’s receipt of the student’swritten request.d) The subject matter of the course(s) represented by the credits that the student desires to transfer to theschool to satisfy any elective course requirements of the student’s program of study at the school isdetermined, in the school’s discretion, to represent a level of rigor that is equal to or greater than therigor of the school’s lower division courses.e) The number of credits that the student desires to transfer to the school to satisfy the requirements of aspecific course in the student’s program of study at the school must equate, as determined by theschool, to at least the same number of quarter credit hours of that course as specified in the ProgramOutline for the student’s program of study at the school.f) The student completed each course represented by credits that the student desires to transfer to theschool to satisfy specific course requirements of the student’s program of study at the school with atleast: (i) a passing grade in the student’s program of study at the school, if the credits were earned atan ITT Technical Institute; (ii) a grade of “C” (i.e., 2.0 on a 4.0 scale), if the credits were earned at apostsecondary educational institution other than an ITT Technical Institute and the student’s programof study at the school is not the associate degree program in Nursing; or (iii) a grade of “B” (i.e., 3.0on a 4.0 scale), if the credits were earned at a postsecondary educational institution other than an ITTTechnical Institute and the student’s program of study at the school is the associate degree program inNursing.g) Other institutions of higher education with which the school has established an articulation agreementinclude the other ITT Technical Institutes across the country, and any other institution that may be setforth in the School’s Catalog. Many of the same and other limitations and conditions specified abovewith respect to credit granted by the school for a student’s previous postsecondary education at adifferent institution will apply to credit granted by a different institution for a student’s postsecondaryeducation at the school. As a result, any student considering continuing his or her education at, ortransferring to, any institution other than an ITT Technical Institute must not assume that any creditsearned in any course taken at the school will be accepted by the receiving institution. The studentmust contact the registrar of the receiving institution to determine what credits earned at the school, ifany, that institution will accept.21
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Page 13 and 14: ANTI-HARASSMENT POLICYIt continues
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