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SOLOMON ACT
Congress in 1996 enacted a series of laws that address Military Recruiting and Reserve Officers’ Training Corp (ROTC) Program Access to Students of Higher Education (commonly referred to as the “Solomon Amendment”). Under these laws, colleges must give recruiters access to their campuses and provide them with lists containing “student recruiting information” in order to help military recruiters meet congressionally mandated recruitment numbers. The Solomon Amendment overrides FERPA and gives the military the right to receive data designated as “student recruiting information.” If an institution or its sub elements does not comply, the entire institution risks losing certain federal funds.
STANDARD OF EVIDENCE
LTC uses the preponderance of evidence standard in all matters involving students. This includes student code of conduct (academic and non-academic), Title IX, and equity cases. The preponderance of evidence standard is defined as such that a party has shown that its version of facts, causes, damages, and fault is more likely than not to be the correct version.
STUDENT CODE OF CONDUCT Academic Misconduct
Academic misconduct subject to disciplinary action:
(1) The definition of academic misconduct is an act in which a student:
a. Seeks to claim credit for the work or efforts of another without authorization or citation;
b. Uses unauthorized materials or fabricated data in any academic exercise;
c. Forges or falsifies academic documents or records;
d. Intentionally impedes or damages the academic work of others;
e. Engages in conduct aimed at making false representation of a student's academic performance; or f. Assists other students in any of these acts.
(2) Examples of academic misconduct include, but are not limited to: cheating on an examination; collaborating with others in work to be presented, contrary to the stated rules of the course; submitting a paper or assignment as one's own work when a part or all of the paper or assignment is the work of another; submitting a paper or assignment that contains ideas or research of others without appropriately identifying the sources of those ideas; stealing examinations or course materials; submitting, if contrary to the rules of a course, work previously presented in another course; tampering with the laboratory experiment or computer program of another student; knowingly and intentionally assisting another student in any of the above, including assistance in an arrangement whereby any work, classroom performance, examination or other activity is submitted or performed by a person other than the student under whose name the work is submitted or performed.
Disciplinary Sanctions:
(1) The following are the disciplinary sanctions that may be imposed for academic misconduct. a. An oral reprimand;
b. A written reprimand presented only to the student;
c. An assignment to repeat the work, to be graded on its merits;
d. A lower or failing grade on the particular assignment or test;
e. A lower grade in the course;
f. A failing grade in the course;
g. Removal of the student from the course in progress;
h. A written reprimand to be included in the student's disciplinary file; i. Removal from their academic program of study;
j. Disciplinary probation; or
k. Suspension or expulsion from the college.
(2) One or more of the disciplinary sanctions listed in sub. (1) may be imposed for an incident of academic misconduct.
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