Policy Number: 5-302
Policy Name: Code of Conduct - Definitions
Policy Revision Dates: 2/2020, 6/18, 2/18, 9/83, 5/83
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February 2020
5-302 Definitions
In this Code of Conduct, unless the context otherwise provides or requires:
1. "Aggravated violation" means a violation which resulted or
foreseeably could have resulted in significant damage to persons
or property or which otherwise posed a substantial threat to the
stability and continuance of normal university or university-
sponsored activities.
2. "Board" means the Arizona Board of Regents.
3. "Cheating" means intentionally using or attempting to use
unauthorized materials, information or study aids in any academic
exercise.
4. "Controlled substance" means a drug or substance listed in
schedules contained in A.R.S. 36-2512 through 36-2516.
5. “Dangerous instrument” means anything that under the
circumstances in which it is used, attempted to be used or
threatened to be used is readily capable of causing death or
serious physical injury.
6. "Distribution" means sale or exchange for personal profit.
7. "Fabrication" means intentional and unauthorized falsification or
invention of any information or citation in an academic exercise.
8. "Faculty" means all employees of the Arizona Board of Regents in
teaching, research, or service, whose notice of appointment is as
lecturer, instructor, assistant professor, associate professor,
professor or otherwise designated as faculty on the notice of
appointment. Graduate students who serve as assistants,
associates or otherwise, are academic appointees as well as
graduate students but are not members of the faculty.
9. "Group" means a number of persons who are associated with each
other and who have not complied with university requirements for
registration as an organization.
