AIMS Community College Student Code of Conduct

1. Leading or inciting others to materially and substantially disrupt scheduled activities at any location on the college campuses.
2. Substantial disruption or obstruction of teaching, research, administration, or other college activities including its public service functions on or off campus or other authorized activities on campus.
3. Material or substantial disruption of any activity or event sponsored by the college or an organization either on or off campus.
4. Obstruction of ingress to or egress from any college building or facility.
5. Obstruction of the free flow of pedestrian or vehicular traffic on campus.
6. Obstructing or failing to comply with the directions of a security official, firefighter, or college official in the performance of his or her duties on the Aims Community College campuses, or at any activity or event sponsored by the college, or at an organization of the college.
7. Using obscene language in the classroom or directed to any college employee.

1. Students are prohibited from selling, representing they are selling, dispensing, or representing that they are dispensing, possessing, distributing, using, abusing, or being under the influence of alcohol, marijuana, or any other controlled substance while on campus or at a college-sponsored event, whether or not on campus.
2. The use of all tobacco products is prohibited in all buildings owned and operated by the college. This includes smoking/vaping using cigarettes, electronic cigarettes, cigars, pipes, hookahs, or any other smoking product as well as dip, chew, snuff, snus, and any other smokeless tobacco product. Tobacco use is prohibited on walkways and within 15 feet of building entrances per College Procedure 3-725A.
3. The use or possession of marijuana including medical marijuana used or possessed under Colorado Constitution Article 18, Section 14 is strictly prohibited on all college property. In addition, the state constitutional amendment authorizing individuals over the age of 21 to recreationally use marijuana (“Amendment 64”) does not change this prohibition or authorize a student to use marijuana. Federal law, including the Drug Free Schools Act, prohibits the presence or use of drugs, including marijuana. Thus marijuana use or possession, even if in compliance with Amendment 64, is prohibited on campus.
4. The use of a prescription medication other than by the person to whom it is prescribed and in accordance with the prescription is prohibited.
5. Misuse of legal substances including use of general products as intoxicants or “means to get high”; and inhaling or ingesting a substance (including but not limited to nitrous oxide, glue, paint, gasoline, solvent, etc.) other than in connection with its intended purpose is prohibited.

Reference to District 6 handbook and board policy ADA

1. Engaging or attempting to engage in any act for the purpose of injuring, threatening to injure, or unreasonably alarming a member of the college including but not limited to physical abuse, verbal abuse, threats, intimidation, harassment, or coercion.
2. Engaging in or attempting to engage in any act for the purpose of unreasonably interfering with the work, education, or the environment or activities surrounding the work or education of any member of the campus community. 
3. Using obscene language to verbally abuse any member of the campus community. 
4. Any disparaging comment, epithet, slur, insult, derogatory opinion, or other expressive behavior concerning age, race, color, religion, sex, gender identity and/or gender expression, sexual orientation, national origin, political affiliation, disability, veteran status, or any other personal characteristic of an individual or group in such a manner as to exhibit a pattern of abuse, to create a hostile environment, or to provoke a violent reaction or a perception of threat directed toward any member of the college community. 
5. Conduct which is disorderly, lewd or indecent.
6. Stalking, defined as a course of conduct (two or more acts) directed at a specific person that would cause a reasonable person to fear for her/his safety or to suffer substantial emotional distress. Stalking may take many forms including where the individual directly/indirectly or through third parties by any action, method, device, or means follows, monitors, observes, surveils, threatens, or communicates to or about a person or interferes with a person’s property.
7. Bullying, defined as severe, aggressive behavior likely to intimidate or intentionally harm, control, or diminish another person physically or mentally.
8. Cyberbullying occurs when an individual is tormented, threatened, harassed, humiliated, embarrassed, or otherwise targeted by another person using the Internet, interactive and digital technology, or mobile phone.
9. Carrying, bringing, using or possessing any dangerous weapon (as defined in this procedure under B5) on campus or at any college sponsored activity subject to Colorado State Law. 
10. Participating in, making claims of, or claiming responsibility for terrorist activity (such as threats of bombs, biological weapons, et.al.), whether in fact or as a hoax.

1. Any sexual misconduct which includes the following: 
   • Non-Consensual Sexual Contact. Any intentional sexual touching however slight with any object by a person upon another person that is without consent and/or by force. 
   • Non-Consensual Sexual Intercourse. Any sexual intercourse however slight with any object by a person upon another person that is without consent and/or by force.
   • Sexual Exploitation. Violating the sexual privacy of another or taking unjust or sexual advantage of another without consent and when such behavior does not otherwise constitute sexual assault.
   • Sexual Harassment. Unwelcome verbal or physical conduct of a sexual nature that is sufficiently severe, persistent, or pervasive that it unreasonably interferes with, denies, or limits someone’s ability to participate in or benefit from the college’s educational programs and/or activities and may be based on power differential (including but not limited to quid pro quo), the creation of a hostile environment, and/or retaliation. Sexual harassment can include, but is not limited to, unwelcome sexual advances, requests for sexual favors, touching of a sexual nature, making sexual comments, jokes, gestures, writing graffiti, displaying or distributing sexually explicit drawings, pictures, or written materials, calling others sexually charged names, spreading sexual rumors, rating others on sexual activity or performance, or circulating, showing, or creating emails or websites of a sexual nature.
     • Quid Pro Quo. Sexual harassment by a person having power or authority over another when submission to such sexual conduct is made either explicitly or implicitly a term or condition of rating, evaluating, or providing a benefit to an individual’s educational performance.
     • Hostile Environment. Created when sexual harassment is severe, persistent, or pervasive and objectively offensive such that it unreasonably interferes with, denies, or limits someone’s ability to participate in or benefit from the colleges’ education programs.
2. Intimate partner violence which includes the following: 
   • Domestic Violence. Domestic violence is violence or a threatened act of violence committed by a person who is or has been involved in an intimate relationship with the person subjected to the violence. 
   • Dating Violence. Dating violence is violence committed by a person who is or has been in a social relationship of a romantic or intimate nature with the person subjected to the violence. The existence of such a relationship shall be determined based on the parties’ statements and with consideration of the length of the relationship, the type of relationship, and the frequency of interaction between the persons involved in the relationship.

A student who has a complaint, issue, concern or problem with a college employee, department, another student or an instructional situation should attempt to visit with the individual or office to find a resolution. 

If a student has attempted to resolve a situation and feels they need support to resolve a situation they should complete the online MAAP report. Once a report has been submitted, the student will be contacted to set up a meeting with a MAAP Officer. More information about the MAAP process can be found here.
If working with and through MAAP does not lead to a resolution, the student will be referred to another institutional process.