Policies and Safety Procedures

Accessibility and Accommodations Statement:  

Portland Community College is committed to ensuring that classes are accessible to all students.  If you plan to use academic accommodations for this course, please contact your instructor as soon as possible to discuss your needs. If students elect to use approved academic accommodations, they must provide in advance formal notification from Disability Services to the instructor. Accommodations are not retroactive; they begin when the instructor receives the "Approved Academic Accommodations" letter from you (submitted in person for courses on campus; via email for Distance Learning courses).  To request academic accommodations for a disability, please contact an Accessible Ed Disability Services counselor on any PCC campus.  Office locations, phone numbers, and additional information may be located on the Disability Services website. Accessible Ed Disability Services works with students and faculty to minimize barriers. 

Flexibility Statement:  

The instructor reserves the right to revise the class calendar, modify content, and/or substitute assignments in response to institutional, weather, or class situations. 

Student Rights and Responsibilities: 

The Student Rights/Responsibilities Handbook establishes students' freedoms and protections as well as expectations of appropriate behavior and ethical academic work.  The Handbook includes items such as the Policy on Student Rights, the Policy on Student Conduct, and the Academic Integrity Policy.

Sanctuary College Statement:  

PCC is a sanctuary college.  For more information and resources, see Sanctuary college resources.

Title IX/Nondiscrimination Statement:

PCC is committed to creating and fostering a learning and working environment based on open communication and mutual respect.  If you believe you have encountered sexual harassment, sexual misconduct, sexual assault, or discrimination based on race, color, religion, age, national origin, veteran status, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, or disability please contact the Office of Equity and Inclusion at (971) 722-5840 or equity.inclusion@pcc.edu.

Academic Integrity (rules about cheating, plagiarism, or sharing work)

Students are required to complete this course in accordance with the Student Rights and Responsibilities Handbook. Cheating includes any attempt to defraud, deceive, or mislead the instructor in arriving at an honest grade assessment, and may include copying answers from other students or using unauthorized notes during tests. Plagiarism is a particular form of cheating that involves presenting as one's own, the ideas or work of another, and may include using other people's ideas without proper attribution and submitting another person's work as one's own. Dishonest activities such as cheating on exams and submitting or copying work done by others will result in disciplinary actions including but not limited to receiving a failing grade. For further information, review the institution's Academic Integrity Policy.

Reporting Child Abuse:  

Please note:  Employees of Oregon higher education institutions are “mandatory reporters of child abuse.”  This obligation continues 24/7 no matter where the person is. This obligation includes any report of any of the following:

1.  Any assault of a child and any physical injury to a child caused by other than accidental means.

2.  Any mental injury to a child, which shall include only observable and substantial impairment of the child’s mental or psychological ability to function caused by cruelty to the child, with due regard to the culture of the child.

3.  Rape of a child, which includes but is not limited to rape, sodomy, unlawful sexual penetration, and incest.

4. Sexual abuse.

5. Sexual exploitation, including: 

o   Contribution to the sexual delinquency of a minor; and

o   Allowing, permitting, encouraging, or hiring a child to engage in prostitution or patronize a prostitute.    

6.  Negligent treatment or maltreatment of a child.

7.  Threatened harm to a child, which means subject a child to a substantial risk of harm to the child’s health or welfare.

8.  Buying or selling a child; and

9.  Permitting a child to enter or remain in the premises where methamphetamines are manufactured.

Portland Community College employees agree to the following;

You must immediately report to the State of Oregon Department of Human Services (DHS) or law enforcement if you have “reasonable cause to believe” that any child with whom you come into contact has suffered abuse, or that any person with whom you come into contact has abused a child.  The law requires an “oral” report, so reports are typically made by phone.  You may be asked for additional written information from the agency you contacted. A mandatory reporter who fails to report is subject to prosecution of a Class A criminal violation of the law, which carries a maximum penalty of $2,000, and may be subject to civil liability.  For additional information go to the DHS website at: 

How to Report Abuse or Neglect

Links - Abuse of people with a disability