Student Rights and Responsibilities

Texas Southmost College encourages the intellectual, personal, social and ethical development of members of the College community in an open and supportive environment that promotes honesty,
integrity and respect for the rights of all individuals. Students at Texas Southmost College are encouraged to exercise personal responsibility and self-discipline as they engage in the rigors of
discovery and scholarship. Texas Southmost College assumes that each student has an earnest educational purpose and possesses a level of maturity necessary to assume obligations of performance and behavior reasonably imposed by the College relevant to its lawful missions, processes, and functions.

Texas Southmost College recognizes that student success is a shared responsibility between the student and the College. Students attending Texas Southmost College are expected to accept and adhere to the following responsibilities:

• Student attendance and participation is the key to academic success. Regular and punctual attendance in class and laboratories is expected of all students.
• Students are expected to exercise personal responsibility and self-discipline as they engage in the rigors of discovery and scholarship. Inappropriate behavior may result in disciplinary action
  against the student.
• Students attending Texas Southmost College are responsible for adhering to standards of academic integrity. Academic dishonesty may result in disciplinary action against the student.

In support of the rights of its students, Texas Southmost College is committed to:

• A consistent and fair evaluation of student performance and an impartial process for grade appeals that allows students to appeal academic decisions or actions which they consider unjust
  or incorrect.
• Ensuring that students are treated with fundamental fairness and personal dignity that includes an impartial process for students to appeal disciplinary sanctions imposed by the College or to
  file a complaint or grievance when they believe that they were unjustly or improperly treated by the College, College employees, or other students.

Detailed information regarding Texas Southmost College’s expectations for students is presented in the Student Code of Conduct (see Student Code of Conduct section within this document). The Student Code of Conduct is an articulation of Texas Southmost College’s commitment to maintaining an environment that recognizes and supports the rights of its students and provides a guide for defining behaviors the College considers inappropriate.