CODE OF CONDUCT
Code of Conduct For Students
DISCIPLINE
The principal invites the cooperation of the students and their guardians in the creation and maintenance of an atmosphere conducive to academic and cultural development and in upholding the traditions of the institution. Students are especially invited to cooperate, in their own interest, with their elected class representative to ensure the enforcement of rules regarding discipline.
[A] BEHAVIOURAL DISCIPLINE OR CODES OF CONDUCT IN CLASSROOM AND COLLEGE PREMISES: DO’S AND DONT’S.
1. Students must be punctual and regular in attending classes, tutorials, class tests, examinations, etc. Failure to obtain the required attendance percentage, non-submission of assignments, and unjustified absence from tests or examinations will be treated as breaching the code of conduct.
2. Students must be seated in their classrooms at the beginning of each period. They must not enter or leave the class room without the permission of the lecturer.
3. Impersonation during a roll call is a punishable offence.
4. Use of a mobile phone during class hours is prohibited and is liable for punishment.
5. Resorting to any kind of malpractice (copying, impersonation, use of unfair means, exchanging answer sheets) during examinations will not be tolerated and will be dealt with severely.
6.Students should carefully follow the notices put up on the notice board (both online and offline). No excuse will be considered if notices on the board are ignored.
7. When a lecturer is absent or is unable to take class, students should maintain a strict order among themselves so as not to disturb the adjoining classes. Under no circumstances should they leave the classroom without ascertaining the release orders from the staff room.
8. Students are expected to treat the members of the staff, both teaching and non-teaching, and their fellow students with courtesy both inside and outside the college. Students shall not, by their acts or conduct, cause damage to the reputation of the institution.
9.Students are expected to come to college dressed suitably, maintaining decency.
10. Students must wear and display their identity cards at the gate while entering the college, and they should always keep them on their person during college hours inside the campus.
11. Students are not allowed to loiter or stand on the verandas or corridors of the college during class hours.
12. When assembled, every class must consider itself responsible for the conduct of its members.
13. Students are forbidden from inviting friends from other institutions and outsiders to the college.
14. No posters are to be pasted or fixed with cellotape anywhere on the college walls. Any writing or scribbling on the walls will attract disciplinary measures against the student.
15. Smoking, chewing, and spitting tobacco products, or pan masala, and consumption of alcohol or narcotic drugs are strictly prohibited inside the college premises. Violations of this rule will invite disciplinary action. The college premises are a smoking-free zone; respect it.
16. Students must refrain from mishandling and tampering with library books or college computer systems.
17. The right to access the Girl’s Common Room is reserved for girls.
18. A student shall not commit or cause a breach of peace inside and around the college campus.
19. Students are prohibited from indulging in games, even in small groups, anywhere on the college premises during lecture hours.
20. Ragging in any form is strictly prohibited. Disciplinary action will be taken against those who violate this rule. It is mandatory for all students and guardians to sign an affidavit in the pro forma prescribed by the University of Calcutta related to ragging.
2. Students must be seated in their classrooms at the beginning of each period. They must not enter or leave the class room without the permission of the lecturer.
3. Impersonation during a roll call is a punishable offence.
4. Use of a mobile phone during class hours is prohibited and is liable for punishment.
5. Resorting to any kind of malpractice (copying, impersonation, use of unfair means, exchanging answer sheets) during examinations will not be tolerated and will be dealt with severely.
6.Students should carefully follow the notices put up on the notice board (both online and offline). No excuse will be considered if notices on the board are ignored.
7. When a lecturer is absent or is unable to take class, students should maintain a strict order among themselves so as not to disturb the adjoining classes. Under no circumstances should they leave the classroom without ascertaining the release orders from the staff room.
8. Students are expected to treat the members of the staff, both teaching and non-teaching, and their fellow students with courtesy both inside and outside the college. Students shall not, by their acts or conduct, cause damage to the reputation of the institution.
9.Students are expected to come to college dressed suitably, maintaining decency.
10. Students must wear and display their identity cards at the gate while entering the college, and they should always keep them on their person during college hours inside the campus.
11. Students are not allowed to loiter or stand on the verandas or corridors of the college during class hours.
12. When assembled, every class must consider itself responsible for the conduct of its members.
13. Students are forbidden from inviting friends from other institutions and outsiders to the college.
14. No posters are to be pasted or fixed with cellotape anywhere on the college walls. Any writing or scribbling on the walls will attract disciplinary measures against the student.
15. Smoking, chewing, and spitting tobacco products, or pan masala, and consumption of alcohol or narcotic drugs are strictly prohibited inside the college premises. Violations of this rule will invite disciplinary action. The college premises are a smoking-free zone; respect it.
16. Students must refrain from mishandling and tampering with library books or college computer systems.
17. The right to access the Girl’s Common Room is reserved for girls.
18. A student shall not commit or cause a breach of peace inside and around the college campus.
19. Students are prohibited from indulging in games, even in small groups, anywhere on the college premises during lecture hours.
20. Ragging in any form is strictly prohibited. Disciplinary action will be taken against those who violate this rule. It is mandatory for all students and guardians to sign an affidavit in the pro forma prescribed by the University of Calcutta related to ragging.
N. B.
1. Any damage or defacement of college property is a punishable offence. If a college property is found damaged in a classroom while the class is assembled, the loss may be recovered by imposing a fee on the whole class if the students responsible for such damage cannot be detected.
2. Habitual misconduct or repeated breach of the College Rules and Regulations will be considered a grave offence and will result in the suspension or expulsion of the student with immediate effect.
2. Habitual misconduct or repeated breach of the College Rules and Regulations will be considered a grave offence and will result in the suspension or expulsion of the student with immediate effect.
[B] ACADEMIC INTEGRITY
Academic integrity refers to an essential quality that an institution must uphold to fulfil its academic objective and research mission, and hence its violation constitutes a serious offence. The principles of academic integrity form an integral part of the code of conduct to which all the students of the institution must adhere. A breach of this code puts into question both the reputation of the institution and the value of the degree awarded to the students. Every pupil in the institution should be responsible for ensuring the highest quality of academic integrity.
The principles of academic integrity require that a student should:
1. Properly acknowledge and cite the use of ideas, results, and materials by others.
2. Properly acknowledge all contributions to a given piece of work.
3. Make sure that all assignments submitted are original.
4. Perform academic activities without the aid of impermissible materials or collaboration and by obtaining all data or results through ethical means.
5. Have the right to pursue their educational goals without interference.
2. Properly acknowledge all contributions to a given piece of work.
3. Make sure that all assignments submitted are original.
4. Perform academic activities without the aid of impermissible materials or collaboration and by obtaining all data or results through ethical means.
5. Have the right to pursue their educational goals without interference.
Violations of this policy include, but are not limited to:
(a) Plagiarism:
Plagiarism is the unethical use of data, ideas, materials, figures, or codes as one’s own without properly acknowledging the original source. Examples of plagiarism include:
(i) reproducing, fully or partially, verbatim or paraphrased, texts or sentences from a report, book, thesis, or publication of others without proper citation.
(ii) Reproducing one’s previously published data, figure, material, graphs, drawings, photographs, diagrams, tables, spreadsheets, computer programmes, or those published by other persons without citing the original source into one’s class reports, presentations, manuscripts, research papers, or eses.
(iii) Submitting a purchased or downloaded term paper or other material to satisfy a course requirement.
(b) Cheating:
Cheating includes, but is not limited to:
(i) copying during examinations and copying of homework assignments, term papers, or manuscripts.
(ii) Allowing or facilitating copying or making a proxy in an examination or writing an assignment for someone else.
(iii) using unfair means or collaborating unethically during an examination or assignment.
(iv) fabricating or falsifying data and reporting it in a thesis and publication.
(v) creating sources or citations that do not exist.
(vi) Altering previously submitted work for a new submission.
(vii) Signing with another student’s name on an exam paper, assignment, thesis, attendance sheet, or manuscript.
(c) Conflict of Interest:
A clash of personal interests with professional activity can lead to a potential clash of interests in diverse activities such as teaching, research, publication, working on committees, research, funding, and consulting. It is necessary to protect professional objectivity and transparency to avoid conflicts of interest not only in financial matters but also in professional activities related to academia.
Plagiarism is the unethical use of data, ideas, materials, figures, or codes as one’s own without properly acknowledging the original source. Examples of plagiarism include:
(i) reproducing, fully or partially, verbatim or paraphrased, texts or sentences from a report, book, thesis, or publication of others without proper citation.
(ii) Reproducing one’s previously published data, figure, material, graphs, drawings, photographs, diagrams, tables, spreadsheets, computer programmes, or those published by other persons without citing the original source into one’s class reports, presentations, manuscripts, research papers, or eses.
(iii) Submitting a purchased or downloaded term paper or other material to satisfy a course requirement.
(b) Cheating:
Cheating includes, but is not limited to:
(i) copying during examinations and copying of homework assignments, term papers, or manuscripts.
(ii) Allowing or facilitating copying or making a proxy in an examination or writing an assignment for someone else.
(iii) using unfair means or collaborating unethically during an examination or assignment.
(iv) fabricating or falsifying data and reporting it in a thesis and publication.
(v) creating sources or citations that do not exist.
(vi) Altering previously submitted work for a new submission.
(vii) Signing with another student’s name on an exam paper, assignment, thesis, attendance sheet, or manuscript.
(c) Conflict of Interest:
A clash of personal interests with professional activity can lead to a potential clash of interests in diverse activities such as teaching, research, publication, working on committees, research, funding, and consulting. It is necessary to protect professional objectivity and transparency to avoid conflicts of interest not only in financial matters but also in professional activities related to academia.
[C] ANTI-RAGGING.
The institution implemented a strict and effective anti-ragging policy based on the UGC Regulation on Curbing the Menance of Ragging in Higher Educational Institutions, 2009. This UGC Regulation was framed in accordance with the directions issued by the Hon’ble Supreme Court of India to prevent and prohibit ragging in all Indian educational institutions and colleges.
Ragging constitutes one or more of the following acts:
(a) Any conduct by any student or group of students—whether through spoken or written words or physical acts—that has the effect of fearing or misbehaving any student.
(b) Indulging in rowdy or undisciplined activities or asking any student to do any act that such student will not in an ordinary course do and thereby causes shame, annoyance, torment, hardship, or embarrassment that inflicts intense psychological harm or raises fear of apprehension in any student.
(c) Any act by senior students that prevents, disrupts, or disturbs the regular academic activity of any student.
(d) Any act of financial extortion put on any student.
(e) Any act of physical abuse, including sexual abuse, stripping, or forcing in lewd acts on gestures, causing bodily harm to any student.
(f) Any act of verbal or written abuse, such as calling foul names, insulting publicly, or sending offensive emails that embarrass, annoy, and discomfort any student.
Anti-ragging Committee: This committee shall examine all complaints of anti-ragging and come up with recommendations based on the nature of the incident and a proper investigation.
Ragging constitutes one or more of the following acts:
(a) Any conduct by any student or group of students—whether through spoken or written words or physical acts—that has the effect of fearing or misbehaving any student.
(b) Indulging in rowdy or undisciplined activities or asking any student to do any act that such student will not in an ordinary course do and thereby causes shame, annoyance, torment, hardship, or embarrassment that inflicts intense psychological harm or raises fear of apprehension in any student.
(c) Any act by senior students that prevents, disrupts, or disturbs the regular academic activity of any student.
(d) Any act of financial extortion put on any student.
(e) Any act of physical abuse, including sexual abuse, stripping, or forcing in lewd acts on gestures, causing bodily harm to any student.
(f) Any act of verbal or written abuse, such as calling foul names, insulting publicly, or sending offensive emails that embarrass, annoy, and discomfort any student.
Anti-ragging Committee: This committee shall examine all complaints of anti-ragging and come up with recommendations based on the nature of the incident and a proper investigation.
Punitary measures against the act of ragging:
A student or group of students found guilty by the anti-ragging committee will attract one or more of the following punitive actions by the college authority:
a) Suspension from attending classes and academic privileges.
b) Withholding or withdrawing scholarships, fellowships, and other benefits.
c) debarring appearing in any test, examination, or other evaluation process.
d) Withholding results.
e) Debarring from undertaking any collaborative work or attending national or international conferences, symposiums, or meetings to present his or herresearch work.
f) Suspension or expulsion from the hostels and mess.
g) cancellation of the examination.
h) Expulsion from a specified institution and consequent debarring from admission to any other institution for a specified period.
i) If need be, in view of the intensity of the act of ragging committed, a First Information Report (FIR) shall be filed by the Institute with the local police authorities. The Anti-Ragging Committee of the Institute shall take appropriate decisions, including the imposition of punishment, depending on the facts and circumstances of each incident of ragging and the nature and gravity of the incident of ragging.
a) Suspension from attending classes and academic privileges.
b) Withholding or withdrawing scholarships, fellowships, and other benefits.
c) debarring appearing in any test, examination, or other evaluation process.
d) Withholding results.
e) Debarring from undertaking any collaborative work or attending national or international conferences, symposiums, or meetings to present his or herresearch work.
f) Suspension or expulsion from the hostels and mess.
g) cancellation of the examination.
h) Expulsion from a specified institution and consequent debarring from admission to any other institution for a specified period.
i) If need be, in view of the intensity of the act of ragging committed, a First Information Report (FIR) shall be filed by the Institute with the local police authorities. The Anti-Ragging Committee of the Institute shall take appropriate decisions, including the imposition of punishment, depending on the facts and circumstances of each incident of ragging and the nature and gravity of the incident of ragging.