Article I: Definitions

1. The term “university” means Heidelberg University.

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 University are considered “students.”

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

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

5. The term “member of the University community” includes any person who is a student, faculty member, University official or any other person employed by the University. A person’s status in a particular situation shall be determined by the Dean of Students or a designee.

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

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

8. The term “judicial body” means any person or persons authorized by the Dean of Students 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 University official authorized on a case-by-case basis by the Dean of Students to investigate complaints and impose sanctions upon students found to have violated the Student Code. The Dean of Students 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 Dean of Students 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 Dean of Students 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 Dean of Students is that person designated by the University President to be responsible for the administration of the Student Code.

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