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REGULATIONS
student, as in a classroom or lab, or is a sponsor for any College activity involving the student, including work study or organizational/club/sport activities. This prohibition shall continue until the student or the employee is no longer affiliated with the College. Employees engaging in inappropriate relationships will be subject to disciplinary action up to and including termination of employment. Students engaging in inappropriate relationships may be subject to disciplinary action up to and including expulsion. Romantic or sexual relationships between College employees and students not in an academic relationship that impairs the College employee’s effectiveness, disrupts the workplace/learning environment, and/or impairs the public confidence in the College will be subject to disciplinary action up to and including termination of employment or expulsion from the College.
VII. SUSPENDING PROCEDURES
In cases of emergency or serious misconduct, the College reserves the right to suspend this
process and may enact appropriate action for the welfare and safety of the College community.
VIII. STUDENT AND EMPLOYEE EDUCATION AND ANNUAL TRAINING
All new students and all employees shall be required to participate in a primary prevention
and awareness program that promotes awareness of discrimination, harassment and sexual-based violence. This program will be held annually at the beginning of each fall semester. At this annual training, students and employees must receive training in the following areas:
1. Information about safe and positive options for bystander intervention skills;
2. What “consent” means with reference to sexual activities.
3. Risk reduction programs so students recognize and can avoid abusive behaviors or potential
attacks;
4. How and to whom to report an incident regarding discrimination, harassment and sexual-
based violence;
5. The importance of preserving physical evidence in a sexual-based violent crime; and
6. Options about the involvement of law enforcement and campus authorities, including the
alleged victim’s option to: i) notify law enforcement; ii) being assisted by campus authorities in notifying law enforcement; iii) declining to notify law enforcement; and iv) obtaining “no- contact” or restraining orders.
STUDENT DRUG FREE POLICY Policy 6.03.04
Southwestern Community College is committed to providing each of its students a drug-free en- vironment in which to attend classes and study. From a safety perspective, the users of drugs or alcohol may impair the well-being of students, interfere with the College’s educational environment, and result in damage to College property. Therefore, it is the College’s policy that the unlawful manufacture, distribution, dispensation, possession, or use of narcotics, drugs, other controlled substances or alcohol is prohibited on College premises or as part of any College- sponsored activity. The specifics of this policy are as follows:
1. No student shall distribute, dispense, possess, use or be under the influence of any alcoholic
beverage, malt beverage or fortified wine or other intoxicating liquor or unlawfully manufacture, distribute, dispense, possess, use or be under the influence of any narcotic drug, hallucinogenic drug, amphetamine, barbiturate, marijuana, anabolic steroid or any other “controlled substance” before, during, or after school hours on College premises or at any other College locations.
2. “Controlled substance” means any drug listed in Title 21 of the United States Code and other federal regulations, as well as those listed in Chapter 90 of the North Carolina General Statutes. Gener- ally, these are drugs which have a high potential for abuse and include “legal drugs” which are not prescribed by a licensed physician. Student use of drugs as prescribed by a licensed physician is not a violation of policy; however, individuals shall be held strictly accountable for their behavior while under the influence of prescribed drugs.
3. “College location” means in any College building or on any College premises; in any College-owned vehicle or in any other College-approved vehicle used to transport students to and from College or Col- lege activities; and off College property at any College-sponsored or College-approved activity, event or function, such as a field trip or athletic event, where students are under the College’s jurisdiction.
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