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professional transcribing service. Either party may request a copy of the recording by submitting a written request to the Office of Student Affairs within ten (10) instructional days from the conduct hearing.
(3) Technical departures from these procedures and errors in their application shall not be grounds to void the District’s right to discipline a student unless, in the opinion of the Superintendent/President of Chaffey College or designee, the error or departure prevented a fair determination of the issue.
F. ConductingtheConductHearing
(1) The conduct hearing will begin at the scheduled date, time and location.
(a) If the student and/or the Dean of Student Affairs arrive late, do not appear
and no satisfactory explanation for the absence is made prior to the start of the conduct hearing, or if the student and/or the Dean of Student Affairs leaves the conduct hearing before its conclusion, the conduct hearing shall proceed without the absent party, and the Conduct Panel shall reach a decision based on the evidence presented.
(b) The Conduct Panel may delay the beginning of the conduct hearing by up to a ten (10) minutes at their discretion.
(2) The conduct hearing will begin with the Due Process Hearing Facilitator notifying all parties present that the conduct hearing will be recorded. Then the Due Process Hearing Facilitator will ask each person present to identify themselves by name.
(3) All testimony shall be taken under an act of affirmation; the affirmation will be administered by the Due Process Hearing Facilitator prior to testimony being shared with the Conduct Panel.
OPENING STATEMENTS
(1) The Dean of Student Affairs and student shall each be permitted to make an opening statement. The facts supporting the alleged violation(s) of the Standards of Student Conduct shall be presented by the Dean of Student Affairs.
PRESENTATIONS
(1) The Dean of Student Affairs shall make the first presentation, followed by the student. Each may present evidence, call witnesses, question and cross- examine witnesses.
(a) Technical rules of evidence shall not apply, but relevant evidence may be
admitted and given probative effect only if it is the kind of evidence upon which reasonable persons are accustomed to rely in the conduct of serious affairs.
(b) The Dean of Student Affairs may present rebuttal evidence after the student completes their evidence. The burden shall be on the Dean of Student Affairs to prove by preponderance of evidence that the facts alleged are true.
(2) The Conduct Panel my ask questions of the Dean of Student Affairs or the student based on the any of the information on record given to them prior to and/or during the conduct hearing.
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