CODE OF CONDUCT FOR STUDENTS

CAMPUS CODE OF CONDUCT FOR STUDENTS

BEHAVIORAL DISCIPLINE IN CLASSROOM AND COLLEGE PREMISES

·         Every student must carry his/her identity card while being present on the College Premises.

·         Every student is expected to maintain the general cleanliness within the classrooms, laboratories and the campus in general.

·         Every student will remain answerable to the college authority for his/her activity and conduct on the College Premises.

·         Any act which obstructs teaching, research, administrative activity and other proceedings of the college is strictly prohibited.

·         Chewing paan, paan masala, gutka or any other tobacco products, smoking or consumption of any other intoxicating products is strictly prohibited.

·         Playing cards, spitting and loitering are strictly prohibited inside the college & hostel campus and shall invite severe punishment/disciplinary action.

·         Use of Cell phones is strictly prohibited during class hour.

·         Attempted or actual theft of and/or damage to property of the College, or property of a member of the College community, or other personal or public property, on or off campus will be considered as a punishable act.

·         During leisure hours, students are advised to use the library as maximum as possible.

·         Students should handle the college properties with care. Damage to the furniture or any other materials may lead to penalty or suspension from the college.

·         Indulging in ragging, anti-institutional, anti-national, antisocial, communal, immoral or political expressions and activities within the Campus and hostel are strongly prohibited as well as punishable.

·         Without the permission of the Principal, Students are not allowed to circulate any printed materials within the college campus.

·         Latecomers will not be entertained to enter into the classroom.

·         A student should maintain at least 75% attendance in the Lectures of every subject and 100% overall performance. Otherwise, he or she will be debarred from the University Examination.

·         Students are required to check the Notice Board and also website of the college for important announcement.

ACADEMIC INTEGRITY

Academic integrity refers to an essential quality that an institution must uphold to fulfill its academic objective and research mission, and hence its violation constitutes a serious offence. The principles of academic integrity form an integral part of the code of conduct to which all the students of the institution must adhere. Breach of this code puts into question both the reputation of the Institution and the value of the degree awarded to the students. Every pupil of the Institution should be responsible to ensure the highest quality of the academic integrity.

The principles of academic integrity require that a student should:

(i)         Properly acknowledge and cite use of ideas, results, materials onwards of others.
(ii)  Properly acknowledge all contributions to a given piece of work.
(iii)       Make sure that all assignments submitted are original.
(iv)       Perform academic activities without the aid of impermissible materials or collaboration and by

obtaining all data or results through ethical means.

(v)        Have right to pursue their educational goals without interference.

Violation of this policy includes but not limited to:

(a) Plagiarism: Plagiarism is the unethical use of data, idea, materials, figures or codes as one’s own without properly acknowledging the original source. Example of Plagiarism includes: (i) Reproducing fully or partially, verbatim or paraphrased, texts/ sentences from a report, book, thesis, publication of others without proper citation. (ii) Reproducing one’s, previously published data, figure, material, graphs, drawings, photographs, diagrams, tables, spreadsheets, computer programme or those published by other persons ,without citing the original source into one’s class reports, presentations, manuscripts, research paper or thesis.(iii) Submitting a purchased or downloaded term paper or other material to satisfy a course requirement.

(b) Cheating: Cheating includes but not limited to (i) copying during examinations and copying of homework assignments term papers, these or manuscript. (ii) Allowing or facilitating copying or making proxy in examination or writing assignment for someone else. (iii) Using unfair means or collaborating unethically during examination or in assignment. (iv) Fabricating or falsifying data and reporting them in thesis and publication. (v) Creating sources or citation that does not exist. (vi) Altering previously submitted work for new submission. (vii) Signing with another student’s name on exam paper, assignment, thesis, attendance sheet or manuscript.

(c) Conflict of Interest: Clash of personal interest with professional activity can lead to potential clash of interest in diverse activities such as teaching, research, publication, working on committees, research, funding and consultancy. It is necessary to protect professional objectivity and transparency to avoid class of interest not only in financial matter but also in the professional activity related to academia.