Student Rights and Responsibilities

TSC 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 TSC are encouraged to exercise personal responsibility and self-discipline as they engage in the rigors of discovery and scholarship. TSC 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.

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

  1. Student attendance and participation are the keys to academic success. Regular and punctual attendance in class, laboratories, and experiential learning requirements is expected of all students.
  2. 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.
  3. Students attending TSC are responsible for adhering to standards of academic integrity. Academic dishonesty may result in disciplinary action.

In support of the rights of its students, TSC is committed to:

  1. 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.
  2. Ensuring that students are treated with fundamental fairness and personal dignity, includes an impartial process through which students may appeal disciplinary sanctions imposed by the College or through which they may 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 TSC’s expectations for students is presented in the Student Code of Conduct. The Student Code of Conduct is an articulation of TSC’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.