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Student Rights and Responsibilities
Freedom from Discrimination
The College of Southern Idaho is an equal opportunity institution. The College welcomes and encourages students to enroll in any course of study for which their qualifications indicate they can benefit without regard to race, color, age, religion, disability, or veteran status.
Freedom from Harassment in General
The College of Southern Idaho is committed to enforcing a campus environment free from abuse, intimidation, and harassment, where each individual is encouraged and treated with respect and courtesy.
Freedom from Sexual Harassment
The College of Southern Idaho is committed to maintaining a working and educational environment, which fosters appropriate and respectful conduct and communication between all individuals within the College community. CSI complies with Federal and State Equal Employment Opportunity (EEO) laws and strives to keep the College free from all forms of harassment and discrimination, including sexual harassment. The College’s policy is that NO member of the College community may sexually harass another.
Sexual harassment is defined as follows: unwelcome sexual advances, request for sexual favors, and other verbal or physical conduct or a sexual nature when:
- Submission of conduct, whether explicitly or implicitly, is made a condition or action of an individual's employment, education, academic pursuits, or par- ticipation in College activity.
- Such conduct affects or interferes with a person’s employment, education, living environment, or participation in a College activity by creating an intimi- dating, hostile, or offensive, working or learning environment.
The College will adhere to the policy of protecting the rights of all individuals within the College community. Following any complaint, the College will provide a fair and impartial investigation. Any member of the College community found to have violated any of the policy’s concerning sexual harassment will be subject to disciplinary action. Any allegations of sexual harassment are referred to the Dean of Students or the Dean of Human Resources.
The information above is based on the guidelines of sexual harassment prepared by the Equal Opportunity Commission under authority of Titles VII of the 1964 Civil Rights Act. Title IX?of the education amendments of 1972 prohibits sex discrimination in any educational program or activity that receives federal financial assistance.
Student Rights and Freedoms
- The right to non-disruptive inquiry and expression.
- The right to reasonable and responsible use of College facilities and services intended for individual educational development.
- The right to protection against any groundless surveillance, searches or seizures by members of the College community.
- The right to engage in demonstrations assuming that the demonstration is not violent and does not disrupt the educational and administrative process of the College or interfere with the rights of other members of the College community.
- The freedom of association. Students are free to organize, engage, and voluntarrly participate in associations of their own choosing, subject only to reasonable College regulations ensuring that such associations are neither discriminatory in their treatment of other members of the College, nor operated in a manner that interferes with the rights of others.
- The right to form organizations within the College for any lawful purpose. The student government constitution establishes a procedure for College sanction. For information pertaining to College organizations, visit the Student Senate Office.
- The right to protection against unauthorized disclosures of confidential information contained in College records.
- The right to expect rules and regulations to be applied reasonably and impartially.
- The right to enjoy all College privileges regardless so age, sex race, color, religion, national origin, disability or veteran status.