Graduate
Student Code of Conduct
Graduate students and graduate faculty aspire to professional behavior
that is consistent with the highest ethical and moral standards. The Graduate
Division of Western New Mexico University expects that graduate students will
demonstrate responsibility and integrity in pursuing their creative and
scholarly interests. The academic enterprise is dependent upon such behavior.
Graduate students are responsible for learning about appropriate standards for
ethical research and scholarly conduct and for following all university
policies related to ethical research and scholarly conduct. (The Ohio State University “Graduate Student Code of Research and Scholarly Conduct.”)
Graduate students are expected to learn, respect, and abide by the WNMU Code of Conduct and the the
professional codes of ethics and responsibilities that are commonly accepted in
their field of study or area of research. These codes include but are not
limited to the following:
- Compliance with the rules, regulations, and expectations of WNMU and
the Graduate Division.
- Honesty and integrity in all transactions.
- Respectful and professional behavior toward all WNMU faculty,
staff, and students.
- Pursuit of issue resolution through appropriate channels.
- Self-control.
- Acceptance of responsibility for one’s own actions.
- Recognition that one’s work is based on the work of others which
must be respected and properly acknowledged.
- Willingness to be supervised and accept constructive criticism.
- Support of and contribution to the betterment of the Graduate
Program in which enrolled.
Faculty members should educate graduate students through example and
discussion, addressing such issues as academic honesty, research, publication,
recruitment, and hiring practices. Disciplinary codes of ethics and norms should
be discussed among graduate students and faculty. Such communication is a
means of setting high standards of behavior in graduate study and beyond.
All students attending WNMU, including those who have disabilities, are
subject to all federal, state, city, and WNMU laws, regulations, and rules.
WNMU recognizes its responsibility to the individual student, to the
state, and to the communities of which its students are members. It
maintains, therefore, a policy of disapproving those types of behavior which
violate the standards of acceptable conduct. Continued misconduct of any
type may cause a student’s suspension or permanent dismissal.
WNMU will cooperate with duly constituted legal authorities when a
student is involved in violations of the law.
Students who are arrested by law enforcement officers and who are
subsequently convicted for law violations may be subject to disciplinary action
imposed by the University including warning, censure, restitution, probation,
suspension and expulsion as the individual case warrants.
Students who commit or attempt to commit any of the following acts of
misconduct shall be subject to appropriate disciplinary procedures and
sanctions:
- Obstruction or disruption, by any means, of teaching, research,
administration, disciplinary procedures, or other University or
University-authorized functions, events, or activities.
- Unauthorized or prohibited entry into or onto, or unauthorized or
prohibited occupation or use of, any University facility, building,
vehicle, or other University property.
- Physical abuse, the threat of physical abuse, or intimidation of
any person on campus or at any University-authorized function or event, or
other conduct which threatens or endangers the health, freedom of action,
or safety of any such person;
- Theft of, or damage to, or defacement of property of University or
the property of any person on campus.
- Denial of, or interference with any person’s lawful right of
access to, use of, or exit from any University facility or with any other
lawful right of any person on campus.
- The destruction of, or damage to, property of the University or of
others on campus by setting fire.
- Use or possession on the campus of firearms, ammunition, or other
dangerous weapons, substances, or materials, or of bombs, explosives, or
incendiary devices, except as authorized.
- Forgery or alteration or destruction of University documents or
furnishings of an intentionally falsified information document submitted
to the University or making intentionally false accusations against any
member of the University by filing a complaint or charges under these
rules.
- The repeated use of obscene or abusive language in a classroom or
public meeting where such language is beyond the bounds of generally
accepted good taste and which, if in a class, is not significantly related
to the teaching of the subject; the use of obscene or abusive language
against another member of the University, faculty, staff, or students.
- Disorderly, lewd, or indecent conduct occurring on campus or at a
University-recognized or University-sponsored activity off campus.
- Aid to others in committing or inciting others to commit any act
of misconduct set forth above.
- Any act that demonstrates the probability that the person
constitutes a physical danger to himself or herself or others on campus.
- Willfully refusing or failing to leave the property of, or any
building or other facility owned, operated, or controlled by the Board of
Regents upon being requested to do so by the President, if the person is
committing, threatening to commit, or inciting others to commit, any act
which would disrupt, impair, interfere with or obstruct the lawful mission,
processes, procedures, or functions of the University. As used here,
“President” means the President (or acting President) of the University or
any person or persons designated by him/her to act on his/her behalf.
- Consumption of alcoholic beverages on campus except as
specifically authorized as outlined in policy.
- Any other acts or omissions which affect adversely the
University’s public image, its education function, disrupt community
living on campus, interfere with the rights of others to the pursuit of
their education, or affect adversely the processes of the University.
Additionally, graduate students are expected to be familiar with
relevant policies and procedures at Western New Mexico University, which are
listed below:
WNMU Student Handbook
WNMU Board of Regents Manual
- Alcohol and Drug Policy
- Communicable Disease Policy
- Equal Education and Equal Employment Policy
- Language Policy
- Racism Policy
- Sexual Harassment Policy
- Weapons Policy
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