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Anti-Discrimination Statement
The District is committed to equal opportunity in educational programs, employment, and access to all institutional programs and activities. The District, and each individual who represents the District, shall provide access to its services, classes, and programs without regard to national origin, religion, age, gender, gender identity, gender expression, race or ethnicity, color, medical condition, genetic information, ancestry, sexual orientation, marital status, physical or mental disability, pregnancy, or because he/she is perceived to have one or more of the foregoing characteristics, or based on association with a person or group with one or more of these actual or perceived characteristics.
Jurisdiction
The Superintendent/President of Chaffey College or their designee has appointed the Dean of Student Affairs as the President’s Designee of the District to address and administer judicial affairs, which include the Standards of Student Conduct and Grade Grievances.
The District’s jurisdiction concerning alleged Student Standards of Conduct violations includes, but is not limited to, its campuses, and to any non-District property used by the District where students are present and applies to all students while attending any District-sponsored classes, activities, conferences, trips or events. This jurisdiction shall also apply to student-to-student or student-to-employee, off-campus conduct and/or actions, and electronic activity (such as e-mail, texting, telephone contact, or social media), when the Dean of Student Affairs, or designee, determines that the off- campus conduct affects, disrupts, or interferes with the educational mission of the college.
Actions or behaviors that violate municipal, state, or federal laws will be reported to the appropriate law enforcement agency with jurisdiction for investigation and prosecution.
Notice – Process for Notification
The Office of Student Affairs primary correspondence and notification mechanism with students shall be through the student’s District assigned e-mail account. Students will also be notified via U.S. certified mail if they have been or may be facing withdrawal of consent to remain on campus, suspension, expulsion or if their case goes to a Student Conduct Hearing. At the Dean of Student Affairs’ discretion, students may be notified via U.S. certified mail or by an alternate email on record from the student. The District reserves the right to notify parents/legal guardians/emergency contacts when it determines that any student, regardless of age, is in a situation that is threatening to their own health and safety, or the student has placed another person in a situation that is threatening to their health and safety.
A student’s claim of not being aware that a notice was sent or their refusal to receive and/or sign a receipt of notice shall not cause the notice to be defective. A student’s failure to provide updated address information to the College shall not cause the notice to be defective so long as the College sends notice to the last known address provided to the College by the student.
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