GENERAL EMPLOYMENT AND WORKPLACE ISSUES
Civility
Civility is defined as behavior that demonstrates consistent respect for others, including an effort to understand differences. Civility helps to create an environment at Colby Community College where all are valued and can be productive. Colby Community College values the inherent worth and dignity of every person, thereby fostering a community of mutual respect. Students, faculty, and staff are expected to exhibit and practice civil behaviors at all times.
Colby Community College supports the freedom of expression for faculty, staff, and students. However, maintaining these freedoms requires the conditions of the learning environment to be conducive to the learning process. Disruptive behaviors will not be tolerated. Any individual engaging in such behaviors may be subject to disciplinary including suspension from school and/or termination of employment.
Prohibited behaviors include:
- Profanity
- Name-calling (a term ending in -ist or -phobe OR beginning with anti- or similarly critical terms)
- Derogatory Terms (stupid, ignorant, etc.)
- Shouting
- Insulting Body Language (eye-rolling or physical gestures)
- Insulting tone of voice (baby talk, speaking “down” to a person)
- Ridicule
- Open hostility
- Biting Sarcasm
- Gas Lighting
- Disruptive, discourteous, and/or insubordinate conduct
- Social Media or Discussion Board posts that are rude, disrespectful, offensive, or inappropriate
- Violating netiquette rules
Students, faculty, and staff are encouraged to address civility concerns directly with one another. However, there may be times when those involved do not feel comfortable doing so. In such instances involving faculty and staff, the concerns should be taken to the Director of Human Resources or the supervising Vice President. Student concerns should be shared with the Vice President of Student Affairs.
Threats of physical violence or loud arguments that rise to the point of disrupting the learning environment will result in contacting campus authorities and/or the Colby Police Department. Students, faculty, or staff members engaging in disruptive and/or uncivil behaviors will be disciplined accordingly based on the complaint procedure (pgs. 15-16 of the Workplace Handbook) and/or the Student Code of Conduct found in the Student Handbook.
[Added May 2023]
- Audit and Inventory Control
- Authorization to Purchase (Bidding Policy)
- Authorization to Sign Contracts and Agreements
- Authorized Signers
- Billing and Payment
- Bonds
- Budget
- Cash Management
- Check Signing
- College Ownership and Use
- College Seal
- Competing Business Interests
- Compliance of Federal Funds
- Credit Card Usage
- Debt Management
- Disposition of Surplus Property
- Expenditures And Fiscal Control
- Facilities and Naming Guidelines
- Federal Funding
- Financial Compliance
- Financial Responsibility Agreement
- Gift Acknowledgement
- Gramm – Leach – Bliley Act (GLBA)
- Grants and Other Outside Financial Resources
- Indirect Rates
- Investment of Funds
- Petty Cash and Change Funds
- Prior Year Charges
- Records Retention
- Refunds
- Rental of Facilities
- Return of Title IV Funds
- Returned Checks
- Sale of Livestock
- Sales and Advertising On Campus
- Scholarships (Internal)
- Scholarships (Performance-Based)
- Small Balance Write-Off
- Stop Payment
- Supplanting
- Tuition Assistance
- Uncollectable Debt Write-Off
- Use of College Equipment
- Vehicle Fleet
- Academic Council
- Administrative Organization
- Authorized Signers
- Board Discretion
- Board of Trustees Meetings
- Board of Trustees
- Categories of Personnel
- Check Signing
- Debt Management
- Facilities and Naming Guidelines
- Financial Compliance
- Merger or Consolidation
- Organizational Structure
- Preceptorship Agreements
- President
- Reserve Funds
- Selection of Administrators
- Transcript Withholding
- Uncollectable Debt Write-Off
- Website User Privacy
- Accreditation
- Accrediting Bodies
- Alcohol/Drug-Free Workplace and Drug-Free Awareness Program
- Child Abuse Prevention
- Copyright Infringement
- Crime Awareness and Campus Security Act of 1990
- Degrees and Certificates
- Employment
- Essential Skills and Outcomes
- Ethics and Integrity
- FERPA
- Harassment
- HIPAA
- Mission Statement
- Notice of Non-Discrimination
- Open Records Requests
- Philosophy
- Publication and Logo Use
- Purposes
- Vision
- Academic Integrity
- Academic Load
- Accessibility
- Administrative Drop
- Bicycles and Other Mobile Devices
- Billing and Payment
- Code of Conduct
- Copyright Infringement
- Credit Hour Definition
- Crowd Control at College Sponsored Activities
- Dorm Credit Hour Requirement
- Emotional Support and Service Animals
- Fairness in Women's Sports Act
- Financial Responsibility Agreement
- File a Complaint
- Grade Appeal
- Indigenous Student Tuition
- International Students and the Law
- Interrogations and Investigations
- Parking
- Placement Testing
- Prior Year Charges
- Proctoring
- Refunds
- Satisfactory Academic Progress (Academics)
- Satisfactory Academic Progress (SAP)
- Scholarships
- Small Balance Write-Off
- Student-Athlete Drug Policy
- Student Complaint Guidelines
- Students with Disabilities
- Transcript Withholding
- Undocumented Immigrants
- Weapons
- Work Study and General Work Time
Human Resources
1255 S Range Ave
Colby KS 67701
hr@colbycc.edu
(785) 460-5406