Article I: Definitions

1.   The term “college” means Heidelberg College.

2.   The term “student” includes persons taking courses at the undergraduate or graduate level.  Persons who are not officially enrolled for a particular term, but who have a continuing relationship with the College are considered “students.”

3.   The term “faculty member” means any person hired by the College to conduct classroom activity.

4.   The term “College official” includes any person employed by the College, performing assigned administrative or professional responsibilities.

5.   The term “member of the College community” includes any person who is a student, faculty member, College official or any other person employed by the College.  A person’s status in a particular situation shall be determined by the Vice President for Student Affairs or a designee.

6.   The term “College premises” includes all land, buildings, facilities, and other property in the possession of or owned, used, or controlled by the College (including adjacent streets and sidewalks).

7.   The term “organization” means any number of persons who have complied with the formal requirements for College recognition.

8.   The term “judicial body” means any person or persons authorized by the Vice President for Student Affairs or a designee to determine whether a student has violated the Student Code and to recommend imposition of sanctions.

9.   The term “Judicial Advisor” means a College official authorized on a case-by-case basis by the Vice President for Student Affairs to investigate complaints and impose sanctions upon students found to have violated the Student Code.  The Vice President for Student Affairs may authorize a judicial advisor to serve simultaneously as a judicial advisor and the sole member or one of the members of a judicial body.  Nothing shall prevent the Vice President for Student Affairs from authorizing the same judicial advisor to impose sanctions in all cases.

10. The term “Appeals Board” means any person or persons authorized by the Vice President for Student Affairs or a designee to consider an appeal from a judicial body’s determination that a student has violated the Student Code or from the sanctions imposed by the Judicial Advisor.

11. The term “shall” is used in the imperative sense.

12. The term “may” is used in the permissive sense.

13. The Vice President for Student Affairs is that person designated by the College President to be responsible for the administration of the Student Code.

14. The term “policy” is defined as the written regulations of the College as found in, but not limited to, the Heidelberg College Planner and the Heidelberg College Catalog.

15. The term “cheating” includes, but is not limited to: 1) use of any unauthorized assistance in taking quizzes, tests, or examinations; (2) dependence upon the aid of sources beyond those authorized by the instructor in writing papers, preparing reports, solving problems, or carrying out other assignments; or (3) academic materials belonging to a member of the College faculty or staff.

16. The term “plagiarism” includes but is not limited to, the use, by paraphrase or direct quotation, of the published or unpublished work of another person without full and clear acknowledgment.  It also includes the unacknowledged use of materials prepared by another person or agency engaged in the selling of term papers or other academic material.  (At present items 15 & 16 are adjudicated through the Academic Judicial System.)