Regulations and Policies

A. Jurisdiction

The University has jurisdiction over student conduct that occurs on University property, or in connection with official University functions whether on or off University property. Although the University will not routinely invoke its disciplinary processes over student conduct that occurs off campus except in connection with an official University function, the University has discretion to exercise jurisdiction over conduct that occurs off campus and that would violate student conduct and discipline policies or regulations if the conduct had occurred on campus when (1) the alleged misconduct indicates the student poses a threat to the safety or security of any member(s) of the University community or (2) the alleged misconduct involves academic work or the forgery, alteration, or misuse of any University document, record, key, electronic device, or identification.

Specifically, the University may choose to exercise jurisdiction over off-campus incidents under alternative A.1 above where the alleged misconduct involves

a. Conduct that threatens the health or safety of any person, including oneself. This conduct includes, but is not limited to, physical assault, sexual assault, sexual misconduct, domestic violence, threats that cause a person reasonably to be in sustained fear for one’s own safety or the safety of her or his immediate family, incidents involving the use or display of a weapon likely to cause great bodily harm, and intoxication or impairment through the use of alcohol or controlled substances to the point one is unable to exercise care for one’s own safety

b. Stalking (as defined in Section 102.10 of the University of California Policies Applying to Campus Activities, Organizations, and Students )

c. Sexual harassment (as defined in Section 160.00 et seq. of the University of California Policies Applying to Campus Activities, Organizations, and Students )

d. Participation in hazing or any method of initiation or preinitiation into a campus organization or other activity engaged in by the organization or members of the organization at any time that causes, or is likely to cause, physical injury or personal degradation or disgrace resulting in psychological harm to any student or other person

In determining whether or not to exercise off-campus jurisdiction in cases under alternative A.1 above, the University will consider the seriousness of the alleged misconduct; whether the alleged victim is a member of the campus community; the ability of the University to gather information, including the testimony of witnesses; or whether the off-campus conduct is part of a series of actions that occurred both on and off campus.

This section is intended only to provide guidance for the exercise of discretion by the University in invoking its jurisdiction over conduct that occurs off campus. It may not be relied upon by any student charged under this section to create any rights, substantive or procedural, or as a basis for a challenge to the exercise of the University’s jurisdiction.

B. Types of Misconduct

Students may be disciplined for violations or attempted violations (including aiding, abetting, or participating in the planning of an act that would be in violation of the UCLA Student Conduct Code, whether or not the individual who carries out that act is a student). Violations include the following types of misconduct:

102.01: Academic Dishonesty. All forms of academic misconduct, including but not limited to cheating, fabrication, plagiarism, multiple submissions, or facilitating academic misconduct. For the purposes of the UCLA Student Conduct Code, the following definitions apply:

102.01a: Cheating. Cheating includes, but is not limited to, the use of unauthorized materials, information, or study aids in any academic exercise; the alteration of any answers on a graded document before submitting it for regrading; or the failure to observe the expressed procedures or instructions of an academic exercise (e.g., examination instructions regarding alternate seating or conversation during an examination).

102.01b: Fabrication. Fabrication includes, but is not limited to, falsification or invention of any information or citation in an academic exercise.

102.01c: Plagiarism. Plagiarism includes, but is not limited to, the use of another's words or ideas as if they were one's own, including but not limited to representing, either with the intent to deceive or by the omission of the true source, part of or an entire work produced by someone other than the student, obtained by purchase or otherwise, as the student's original work or representing the identifiable but altered ideas, data, or writing of another person as if those ideas, data, or writing were the student’s original work.

102.01d: Multiple Submissions. Multiple submissions includes, but is not limited to, the resubmission by a student of any work which has been previously submitted for credit in identical or similar form in one course to fulfill the requirements of a second course, without the informed permission/consent of the instructor of the second course; or the submission by a student of any work submitted for credit in identical or similar form in one course to fulfill the requirements of a concurrent course, without the permission/consent of the instructors of both courses.

102.01e: Facilitating Academic Dishonesty. Facilitating academic dishonesty includes, but is not limited to, knowingly helping another student commit an act of academic misconduct (e.g., cheating, fabrication, plagiarism, multiple submissions).

102.01f: Coercion Regarding Grading or Evaluation of Coursework. Threatening personal or professional repercussions or discipline against an instructor to coerce the instructor to change a grade or otherwise evaluate the student's work by criteria not directly reflective of coursework.

102.02: Other Forms of Dishonesty. Other forms of dishonesty, including but not limited to fabricating information or knowingly furnishing false information or reporting a false emergency to the University.

102.03: Forgery. Forgery, alteration, or misuse of any University document, record, key, electronic device, or identification.

102.04: Theft. Theft of, conversion of, misappropriation of, or damage to or destruction of any property of the University or property of others while on University premises or at official University functions; or possession of any property when the student had knowledge or reasonably should have had knowledge that it was stolen.

102.05: Computer Misuse. Theft or abuse of University computers and other University electronic resources such as computer and electronic communications facilities, systems, and services. Abuses include, but are not limited to, unauthorized entry, use, transfer, or tampering with the communications of others; interference with the work of others and with the operation of computer or electronic communications facilities, systems, and services; or violations of copyright laws, whether by theft, unauthorized sharing, or other misuse of copyrighted materials such as songs, movies, software, photos, or text. Violation of the UCLA E-Mail Policy and Guidelines (available at http://www.adminpolicies.ucla.edu/app/Default.aspx?&id=455), of the University of California Electronic Communications Policy (available at http://www.ucop.edu/ucophome/policies/ec/), or of any other University acceptable or allowable use policy is also considered a violation of Section 102.05.

102.06: Unauthorized Use of University Resources or Name. Unauthorized entry to, possession of, receipt of, or use of any University services, equipment, resources, or properties, including the University’s name, insignia, or seal.

102.07: Unauthorized Use of University Housing and Parking.

102.07a: University Housing. Violation of policies, regulations, or rules governing University-owned, -operated, or -leased housing facilities or other housing facilities located on University property.

102.07b: Parking. Violation of policies, regulations, or rules governing University parking services or University-owned or -operated parking facilities.

102.08: Conduct that Threatens Health or Safety. Conduct that threatens the health or safety of any person, including oneself. This includes, but is not limited to, physical assault, sexual assault, sexual misconduct, domestic violence, threats that cause a person reasonably to be in sustained fear for one’s own safety or the safety of her or his immediate family, incidents involving the use or display of a weapon likely to cause great bodily harm, and intoxication or impairment through the use of alcohol or controlled substances to the point one is unable to exercise care for one’s own safety.

Sexual Assault occurs when a person knowingly causes another person to engage in a sexual act by (a) physical force, violence, threat, intimidation, and/or coercion; (b) ignoring the objections of the other person; (c) causing the other's intoxication or impairment through the use of drugs or alcohol; or (d) taking advantage of the other person's incapacitation, state of intimidation, helplessness, or other inability to consent. Situations involving physical force, violence, threat, intimidation, and/or coercion fall under the definition of Sexual Assault.

Sexual Misconduct occurs when a person, having failed to take appropriate steps to gain effective consent, engages in a sexual act with another under the unreasonable belief that effective consent had been obtained. NOTE: For the purpose of this regulation, the following apply:

1. “Effective consent” referenced in the terms above means words or actions that show a voluntary agreement to engage in a mutually agreed-upon sexual activity.

2. “Sexual act” referenced in the terms above includes, but is not limited to, sexual intercourse, sodomy, oral-genital contact, or sexual penetration with a foreign object (including a finger), the touching of a person's intimate parts (defined as genitalia, groin, breast, or buttocks, or clothing covering them), or compelling a person to touch her or his own or another person's intimate parts without effective consent.

3. Intoxication of the accused will not diminish her or his responsibility for any violations of this section.

102.09: [Interim]. Sexual, racial, and other forms of harassment, defined as follows:

Harassment is defined as conduct that is so severe and/or pervasive, and objectively offensive, in that so substantially impairs a person’s access to University programs or activities, that the person is effectively denied equal access to the University’s resources and opportunities on the basis of her or his race, color, national or ethnic origin, alien niche, sex, religion, age, sexual orientation, gender identity, marital status, veteran status, physical or mental disability, or perceived membership in any of these classifications.

Student Employees. When employed by the University of California, and acting within the course and scope of that employment, students are subject to the University of California Policy on Sexual Harassment . Otherwise, Section 102.09 above is the applicable standard for harassment by students.

For both student and/or employee sexual harassment, refer to the University of California Procedures for Responding to Reports of Sexual Harassment .

102.10: Stalking. Stalking behavior in which a student repeatedly engages in a course of conduct directed at another person and makes a credible threat with the intent to place that person in reasonable fear for her or his safety, or the safety of her or his family; where the threat is reasonably determined by the University to seriously alarm, torment, or terrorize the person; and where the threat is additionally determined by the University to serve no legitimate purpose.

102.11: [Deleted—See 102.09].

102.12: Hazing. Participation in hazing or any method of initiation or preinitiation into a campus organization or other activity engaged in by the organization or members of the organization at any time that causes, or is likely to cause, physical injury or personal degradation or disgrace resulting in psychological harm to any student or other person.

102.13: Obstruction or Disruption. Obstruction or disruption of teaching, research, administration, disciplinary procedures, or other University activities.

102.14: Disorderly Conduct. Engaging in disorderly or lewd conduct.

102.15: Disturbing the Peace. Participation in a disturbance of the peace or unlawful assembly.

102.16: Failure to Comply. Failure to identify oneself to, or comply with directions of, a University official or other public official acting in the performance of her or his duties while on University property or at official University functions, or resisting or obstructing such University or other public officials in the performance of or the attempt to perform their duties.

102.17: Controlled Substances. Unlawful manufacture, distribution, dispensing, possession, use, or sale of, or the attempted manufacture, distribution, dispensing, or sale of controlled substances, identified in Federal and State laws or regulations, or being unable to exercise care for one’s own safety or the safety of others because one is under the influence of controlled substances. NOTE: This provision shall not apply to circumstances wherein the person under the influence was given a controlled substance without her or his knowledge and permission.

102.18: Alcohol. Manufacture, distribution, dispensing, possession, use, or sale of, or the attempted manufacture, distribution, dispensing, or sale of alcohol which is unlawful or otherwise prohibited by, or not in compliance with, University policy or campus regulations, or being unable to exercise care for one’s own safety or the safety of others because one is under the influence of alcohol. NOTE: This provision shall not apply to circumstances wherein the person under the influence was given alcohol without her or his knowledge and permission.

102.19: Destructive Devices. Possession, use, storage, or manufacture of explosives, firebombs, or other destructive devices.

102.20: Weapons. Except as expressly permitted by law, possession, use, storage, or manufacture of a firearm or other weapon capable of causing bodily injury. Except as expressly permitted by University policy, possession, use, storage, or manufacture of replicas of firearms or other weapons.

102.21: Violation of Disciplinary Conditions. Violation of the conditions contained in the terms of a disciplinary action imposed under the UCLA Student Conduct Code.

102.22: Violation of Interim or Emergency Suspension Conditions. Violation of the conditions contained in a written Notice of Interim or Emergency Suspension issued pursuant to Section IV of the UCLA Student Conduct Code.

102.23: Unauthorized Use or Sale of University Materials. Except as provided herein, no student shall give, sell, or otherwise distribute to others or publish any recording made during any course presentation without the written consent of the University and the instructor/presenter. This policy is applicable to any recording in any medium, including handwritten or typed notes.

Any distribution of a recording of a course presentation at UCLA that captures the actual sounds and/or images of that course presentation, in any medium, must consider not only the rights of the instructor and the University, but also those of other parties. Examples include the privacy rights of students enrolled in the course, the rights of guest lecturers, and the copyright interests in materials authored by others that are displayed or presented during the course presentation. In addition to the consent of the University and the instructor/presenter, it may be necessary to secure permission from these other parties before any recording, distribution, publication, or communication is legally permitted.

102.23a: Selling Course Notes. Selling, preparing, or distributing for any commercial purpose course lecture notes or video or audio recordings of any course unless authorized by the University in advance and explicitly permitted by the course instructor in writing. The unauthorized sale or commercial distribution of course notes or recordings by a student is a violation of the UCLA Student Conduct Code whether or not it was the student or someone else who prepared the notes or recordings. This policy is applicable to any recording in any medium, including handwritten or typed notes.

102.23b: Copying Course Notes. Copying for any commercial purpose handouts, readers, or other course materials provided by an instructor as part of a University of California course unless authorized by the University in advance and explicitly permitted by the course instructor or the copyright holder in writing (if the instructor is not the copyright holder). Students currently enrolled in a course may provide a copy of their own notes or recordings to other currently enrolled students for noncommercial purposes reasonably arising from participation in the course, including individual or group study.

102.23c: Commencement Tickets. Selling commencement tickets.

102.24: University Properties. Organizing or carrying out unlawful activity on University properties.

102.25: Violations of Law. Violation of Federal, State, or local laws.