Langara’s Standards of Student Conduct is build on a belief that students learn best in a respectful environment. To ensure the best environment for our students, all students must:

  1. Respect the safety, rights, and well-being of others and will not cause or threaten to cause harm to another individual or endanger the safety of another individual.
  2. Treat others with dignity, civility and respect and refrain from harassment, bullying, hazing or discrimination or behavior that is defined as sexual violence or misconduct
  3. Respect the rights of others to enjoy the work and learning environment and not disturb, disrupt, or otherwise interfere with the learning, work, or other activities of members of the College Community.
  4. Respect the property rights of other individuals and the College and not cause damage or threaten to cause damage to another individual’s property or the property of the College.
  5. Use College property, facilities, equipment, or materials only for authorized purposes.
  6. Respect the College and its reputation, and refrain from interfering with the operations, functions, activities, and services of the College.
  7. Demonstrate integrity and trustworthiness and not engage in false or deceptive practices by word, action, concealment, or omission.
  8. Comply with reasonable direction given by a college representative.
  9. Conduct themselves in a way that is safe, legal, and consistent with their role as a student.
  10. Take responsibility for their actions and not engage in reprisals, retaliation, or threats of retaliation against any member of the College.
  11. Refrain from bringing a false allegation against any member of the College community under this or any other policy of the College.
  12. Comply with all College policies and all municipal, provincial, and federal laws.

Behaviour that harms the Learning Environment

Behaviours that harm a respectful, safe and productive learning environment at not allowed. These include engaging in, attempting to engage in, or assisting others to engage in any of the actions described below:

  1. Any action or activity that endangers the health, safety, or property or wellbeing of any person, or creates conditions that so endanger.
  2. Discrimination directed at one or more specific persons based on any of the protected grounds under the B. C. Human Rights Code.
  3. Harassment, stalking, bullying, intimidation, coercion.
  4. Physically aggressive behaviour, assault, threats of violence or physical harm.
  5. Unwelcome, vexatious, or persistent conduct that the student knows, or ought to know, would cause another person to feel demeaned, undermined, intimidated, or harassed.
  1. Any action or activity that disrupts the ability of other students to learn.
  2. Any action or activity that interferes with the ability of instructors to teach.
  3. Any action or activity that interferes with the right of others to carry on their legitimate activities.
  4. Any action, or activity that disrupts any activity organized by the College, or the duties of any employee of the College.
  1. Any unwanted action carried out through sexualized means or by targeting sexuality, including sexual assault, sexual abuse, sexual harassment, stalking, indecent or sexualized exposure, voyeurism, sexualized cyber harassment and stalking, sexual trafficking, sexual exploitation, voyerism, and the distribution of sexually explicit imagery of a person or persons without consent.
  2. Any attempt or threat to commit an act of sexualized violence.
  1. Reprisals, retaliation, or threats of retaliation against any member of the College community for bringing forward a concern under this or any other policy of the College.
  1. Attempted or actual theft of College property or the property of any member of the College community, or taking property of another without consent, even with an intent to return the property
  2. Creating a condition that unnecessarily endangers or threatens destruction of college property or the property of any member of the College community.
  3. Destroying, misplacing, misfiling, or rendering inoperable any stored information such as books, film, data files or programs from a library, computer or other information storage, processing, or retrieval system.
  4. Misusing, destroying, defacing, damaging, or destroying College property or the property of any member of the College community.
  5. Possessing College property or the property of any member of the College community, if the student knows, or ought to know, that the property is in their possession without consent.
  1. Recording any business of the College, including conversations, lectures, demonstrations, and presentations without authorization.
  2. Tampering with fire safety, security, or emergency equipment.
  3. Unauthorized entry and/or presence on any premises of the College or its affiliated properties or any premises used for College sponsored programs, events, or activities.
  4. Use of any College computing equipment, facility, network, or system for any disruptive or unauthorized purpose, or in a manner that violates any law, College regulation, policy, or procedure.
  5. Use of any facility, equipment, or service of the College, contrary to the expressed instruction or without proper authority.
  • Bringing a false allegation against any member of the College community under this or any other policy of the College.

  1. Any act of pretending to be another person for the purpose of fraud or deceit.
  2. Any false or deceptive representation by word, action, concealment, or omission that is intended to deceive another so they may act upon it or to gain an unfair advantage.
  3. Forging, altering, or misusing any College document, record, or instrument of identification.
  4. Knowingly furnishing false information, including information pertaining to a student’s standing, status, or academic record, to any person or office acting on behalf of the College.
  1. Encouraging aiding or enabling behaviour by a non-student that, if committed by a student, would be prohibited conduct under this policy.
  2. Encouraging, aiding, or conspiring with another student to engage in prohibited conduct.
  1. Failing to comply with reasonable direction given by a College representative authorized to give such direction.
  1. Any interference with or obstruction of the application of the Standards of Student Conduct Code.
  2. Failure to comply with any processes or any requirements or responses imposed through the conduct process.
  3. Interfering with an investigation undertaken under the Standards of Student Conduct.

  • Storing, possessing or using real or replica firearms or other weapons, explosives (including fireworks), ammunition or toxic or otherwise dangerous materials on College premises.
  1. Contravening policies of the College governing the possession, distribution and/or consumption of alcohol, tobacco, or cannabis and/or its derivatives.
  2. Using, possessing, or distributing a controlled or restricted substance without a verifiably legitimate purpose.

  1. Contravening any provision of existing College policy or regulations.