Almost 5,000 students, faculty, and staff are part of the A-B Tech family. Every year hundreds of people graduate from the College, and hundreds of new freshmen take their places. To protect all these students and employees from the irresponsible actions of others, the College has adopted basic rules of student conduct.
Students who have been charged with a violation of these rules may be assigned consequences based upon the seriousness of the offense. A hearing will be conducted by the Vice President of Student Services.
Consequences for violations include verbal warnings, written warnings, disciplinary probations, particular consequences adapted to the violation, restitution, and suspensions. Any disciplinary decision rendered by the Vice President of Student Services may be appealed to the President.
Any student charged with a violation of the Code of Student Conduct will receive a written copy of the charges and an appointment for a hearing. Rights, as they pertain to the hearing, are listed elsewhere in this web page.
The following actions are specifically prohibited on this campus under the Code of Student Conduct:
- Academic Dishonesty - You may not deceive any official of the College by cheating on any assignment, examination, or paper. This includes plagiarism, which is defined as the theft and use of the ideas or writings of another as one's own.
- Alcoholic Beverages - You may not possess or use alcoholic beverages on campus or at any College event. You may not be under the influence of alcoholic beverages on campus or at any College event.
- Animals - You may not have an animal of any kind on campus. This includes animals left within a vehicle. Working dogs, such as police dogs and Seeing Eye dogs, are permitted.
- Damage to Property - You may not damage the property of the College or of any other person working at or attending the College.
- Disobedience - You may not disobey the reasonable directions of College employees, including administrators, faculty members, security officers, and other staff employees.
- Disorderly Conduct - You may not conduct yourself in a way which will interrupt the academic mission of the College or which will disturb the peace of the College.
- Disruption - You may not disrupt the normal activities of the College by physically or verbally interfering with instruction, meetings, traffic, or scheduled administrative functions.
- Drugs - You may not possess, use, or be under the influence of any narcotic or illegal drug on campus in violation of the laws of the state of North Carolina or the United States.
- False Information - You may not present to the College or its employees false information; neither may you knowingly withhold information which may have an effect on your enrollment or your status in the institution and which is properly and legally requested by the College.
- Assault - You may not strike or threaten to strike another person for any reason whatsoever. Threatening to strike another person is defined as assault, and striking another person is defined as battery.
- Gambling - You may not gamble on campus.
- Possession of Weapons - You may not have a weapon of any kind, including a knife, stun gun, or any firearm in your possession on campus. Law enforcement officers are exempt from this prohibition.
- Professional Conduct - Various curricula have specific codes of professional conduct for which you may be held accountable if you are enrolled in those curricula.
- Theft - You may not steal the property of another individual or of the College. Students who are caught stealing will be required to make restitution and may be eligible for civil prosecution as well as College discipline.
- Public Laws - You may not violate the laws of the state of North Carolina while on campus. Doing so may lead to legal actions as well as campus discipline.
- Sexual Harassment - You may not sexually harass, either verbally or physically, any member of the College community, including other students, employees, or other persons on the College campus.
- Use of the Internet - The College has an extensive policy on appropriate
use of the Internet. Users of the College computers acknowledge the
policy whenever they sign on. You may not use the College's access to
the Internet for e-mail or access to sexually explicit material.