WAC 132V-120-020   Definitions.  As used in this chapter the following words and phrases shall be defined as follows:

     (1) "District" shall mean Community College District 22.

     (2) "College" shall mean Tacoma Community College main campus and any other campus or college facility which may be created by the board.

     (3) "College facilities" shall include real property, buildings and improvements thereon owned, leased, or used by or on behalf of the college or the associated students, and extends to affiliated web sites, distance learning classroom environments, and agencies or institutions that have educational agreements with Tacoma Community College.

     (4) "Board" shall mean the board of trustees of Community College District No. 22, state of Washington.

     (5) "President" shall mean the duly appointed chief executive officer of any campus of Tacoma Community College or designee.

     (6) "Chief student services officer" shall mean the administrator responsible for student services or designee.

     (7) "Chief academic affairs officer" shall mean the administrator responsible for the instructional program or designee.

     (8) "Officer of the college" shall mean and include all administrative exempt employees, exclusive of the president, manager of on-line student services of the Washington on-line virtual campus (or designee), and any faculty member whose primary assignment is that of division administrator.

     (9) "Faculty" shall mean and include any full-time or part-time academic employee of the district or Washington on-line virtual campus whose assignment is one or a combination of instruction, counseling, or library services.

     (10) "College employee" shall mean and include any classified staff employee, exempt employee or faculty either full time or part time, whose primary assignment is a job position under the jurisdiction of the Washington higher education personnel board. Also included are student employees of the district and employees whose status is either full-time or part-time "exempt-temporary," and those authorized to act as an agent for the college.

     (11) "Student" shall mean any person who is enrolled for classes through the college, including any person in affiliated distance learning courses.

     (12) "Associated students" shall mean the student body and such authorized groups organized under the provisions of the Constitution and bylaws of the associated students of the college.

     (13) "Assembly" shall mean any overt activity engaged in by two or more persons, the object of which is to gain publicity, advocate a view, petition for a cause or disseminate information to any person or group of persons.

     (14) "Disciplinary action" shall mean and include a written warning to, the suspension or expulsion of, or placement on probation of any student by an appropriate officer of the college for the violation of any provision of this chapter.

     (15) "Instructional day" shall mean any regularly scheduled instructional day designated in the academic year calendar, including summer quarter, as a day when classes are held or during final examination week. Saturdays and Sundays are not regularly scheduled instructional days.

     (16) "College community" shall mean any employee, student or guest of Tacoma Community College.



[Statutory Authority: RCW 28B.50.140(13). 04-17-017, § 132V-120-020, filed 8/6/04, effective 9/6/04; 01-24-004, § 132V-120-020, filed 11/21/01, effective 12/22/01; 88-23-072 (Order 88-1), § 132V-120-020, filed 11/17/88; 85-02-004 (Order 84-1), § 132V-120-020, filed 12/21/84. Formerly WAC 132V-14-020.]