What Constitutes Disruptive Behavior?
Disruptive student behavior is student behavior in a classroom or other learning environment (including both on and off-campus locations), which disrupts the educational process, as determined by the Instructor. Disruptive class behavior includes, but is not limited to, verbal or physical threats, use of any obscenity, unreasonable interference with class discussion, heckling or interrupting any speaker, making/receiving personal phone calls or text messaging during class, excessive tardiness, leaving and entering class frequently in the absence of notice to instructor of illness or other extenuating circumstances, public refusal to participate in class activities, and persistent, disruptive personal conversations with other class members. For purposes of this policy, it may also be considered disruptive behavior for a student to exhibit threatening, intimidating, or other inappropriate behavior toward the faculty, staff or classmates outside of class.