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1.
MISCONDUCTS
1.1. The following shall constitute ignorance of severe discipline for misconduct and violations of the
University values:
1.1.1. Academic probity
The following are misconducts against this value:
a. To copy in any kind in the execution of an assignment of any type or denomination (i.e. a test,
an exam, a quiz or an academic placement).
b. To modify, remove or destroy an assignment before, during or after having taken or handed it.
Even if the grades are still pending.
c.
To modify, remove or destroy grades or transcript reports, certificates, written records, or
academic or administrative documents.
d.
To submit an assignment pretending ownership of other person or peoples idea, or using it
without citation or recognizing the original source.
e. To falsify the intellectual work such as citing nonexistent authors. To relate to missed work or
misrepresent information as part of an assignment or any other action that discloses dishonesty.
f.
To submit the same assignment, in whole or in part, in more than one course without the
consent of all the instructors.
g. To manage directly the review of a grade in the presence of the instructor.
h. To request or receive private tutoring, individually or in group, with or without payment, of
university instructors, even whether they are instructors of the courses that the student is
registered or not.
1.1.2. Respect for the academic setting:
The following are misconducts against this value:
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a. Damage, destroy or use improperly the buildings, the constructions, the environment, the
furniture, the equipment, the installations, the information systems, and the email. In general,
services and goods of the University, their members, and third parties that are inside the
university campus.
b. Destroy, steal or modify the information of the Universitys systems, or third parties, through
any medium.
c. Access to information of university's systems without the corresponding authorization or
infriging keys or access codes.
d. Use the information systems of the University to damage the image, the honor, or the
patrimony of the university, their members, or third parties.
e. Not provide university documents of personal identification when these are required by
authorized personnel.
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2 a. Carry out individual or collective that impede or disrupt the normal development of
institutional activities.
b. Carry out proselytism in favor of any political party within the campus.
1.1.3 The civilized treatment
Any kind of aggression is against this value. That is, aggressions that make an attempt on the
physical or moral integrity, the esteem, the image or the honor of individuals or institutions by
any means.
1.1.4 Respect for the law
The following are offenses against this value:
a. Be convicted in court for intentional crime.

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b. Belong to illegal groups
c. Smoke in close and open areas of the university.

1.1.5 Moral conduct

Offenses against this value are:
a. Showing publicly behavior or conducts not accepted by society as moral.
b. Failing, falsifying or hiding the truth
c.Possessing, using, offering or selling drugs or illegal substances on campus.
d. Performing any form of sexual harassment.
e.Showing behaviors contrary to the principles or values cultivated by university.
1.2 The successful completion or the intention to realize the behaviors mentioned in this chapter
are considered serious misconduct. Also, the misconduct is consider for the direct author of
such conduct, as same as his/her accomplices and those omitting the obligation to denounce
them promptly.
2. SANCTIONS
2.1 According to its severity, the misconducts receive the following sanctions:
a. Temporary removal or suspension of one or more ordinary academic semesters.
b. Definitive removal or expulsion.

If authorities that apply the sanction found a particular case of extenuating circumstances, they
can apply the sanction of reprimand, and if it is the case, reprimand and disapproval grade of 0
in the subject.
In accordance with the provisions of 5.1 Final Disposal , authorities apply the sanction, if
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2.2 Sactions are applied after the proof and verification of the misconduct. Right of defense of
the student involved is respected. Sanctions consist of resolution of competent authority
motivated and with base on this regulation.

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2.3. Sanctions are registered in the student's personal record. The effects are applied in
accordance to his/her academic condition at the time of the events.
2.4. Each misconduct can only be sanctioned once. In case of committing misconducts again,
sanctions will be comulative.
2.5. Each sanction is registered in the student's personal record and sent by written notification
to the student involved, his/her mother, father or legal representative.
2.6. Notifications will be sent to:
a. The last mailing address indicated by the student involved, his/her father, mother, and/or legal
representative in the university records.
b. The mailing address indicated by the student involved during the sanctioning process.
2.7. The reprimand constitutes a call to the student due to reported misconduct. Furthermore,
this reprimand warns the student that his/her behaviour is under examination. In case of
reporting the same or a different misconduct, the sanction will be more severe.
2.8. Failing the subject with the grade 00 (zero) and receiving a reprimand, constitute a severe
call to the student due to reported misconduct against the academic probity. In case of reporting
the same or a different misconduct, the sanction will be more severe.
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2.9 Suspension deprives student of all his/her rights until the end of the academic term in which
it is applied, or in the next extraordinary academic semester. For all purposes, the signed up
courses in this semester will be considered as taken and failed, assigned them the grade and
the corresponding weighted average of 99.
2.10 Definitive suspension involves the total suspension or dismissal of the student involved of
the University, and the student is deprived of all his/her rights.
2.11 The accumulation of two reprimands causes automatically the suspension of the student
involved until the end of the academic term, in which the second one is applied, or the
suspension on the next semester. For all purposes, the signed up courses in this semester will
be considered as taken and failed, assigned them the grade of 99.

2.12 The accumulation of a reprimand and a suspension for misconduct against the
academic probity causes automatically the definitive suspension of the student involved.
2.13 The accumulation of two suspensions causes automatically the definitive suspension of the
student involved.
2.14 The application of the sanctions does not exclude, as the case may be, the demand of the
committed damages repair and payment of the corresponding compensation, as well as the
derived academic and legal consequences.
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2.15 Helpful information provided to identify students responsible for offense is kept confidential by the
Board.
Likewise, it can be taken into account to -totally or partially- deprive of any effect the sanction
corresponding to the student who provides information and who is directly or indirectly responsible for the
offense.
3. SANCTIONING PROCEDURE
Every sanctioning procedure is carried out under a file identified with a number code.
Competent authorities for the sanctioning procedure are:
A. In the first instance
a. Vice-Rectors
b. Deans, the Director of the Postgraduate School, Program Directors, Area Directors and Directors.
B. In the last instance, immediately above authority of the foregoing entities.
According to the nature of identified facts and circumstances on each case, the University considers two
sanctioning procedures:
a. The simple procedure, in case of individual behaviors deserving a written warning sanction with or
without a grade equivalent to zero in the subject or in case of an automatic sanction according to the
articles 2.11, 2.12 and 2.13 in this Behavior Code.
b. Complex procedure, in case of behaviors performed by more than one individual in the same or related
facts, or in case of sanction application of temporary or permanent suspension.
3.1. Simple Procedure

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In the simple procedure, the following acts are comply:

a. The competent authority, at its own initiative or at the request of documented injunction by a professor,
an administration officer or a student, after proceeding with the proper investigations and respecting the
right of the person concerned/student involved, by order, describes the facts, qualifies the disciplinary
penalty, applies it and supports its decision.
b. The person concerned/student involved accepts the penalty established by the competent authority or
otherwise, within three working days after the notification of the relevant decision, requests in writing to
the competent authority who defined the penalty to reconsider its decision basing its request by
submitting the new evidence. Similarly, in the same period, the person concerned/student involved may
appeal to the immediate superior of the competent authority who was mentioned in the first instance.
c. If the request for reconsideration is adverse, the person concerned/student involved may appeal this
decision in writing within three working days after the notification of the resolution before the immediate
superior of the competent authority. Automatically applied penalties are not subject to appeal.
d. In the event of appeal, the immediate superior quotes to the person concerned/student involved in
writing only once to hear his/her defense.

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e. After the citation to the hearing described above, with the depositions presented or without
them, the authority by means of the corresponding resolution decide an appeal and support his
decision. The decision shall be final and unappealable.
3.2 Complex procedure
In the complex procedure, the following actions are taken:
a. The competent authority, proceeding ex officio or by documented requirement of a
professor, an administrative employee or from another student, by means of resolution,
describes the facts, classifies the behavior subject of sanction and asks to the Academic
Vice-rector, Administrative Vice-rector, University Services Vice-rector or, if it is the case, to
the Postgraduate School Director for the creation of an investigation committee in charge of
conducting the case file. The investigation committee is appointed for each case and is
constituted by no less than three and no more than five professors or University employees.
b. An Attorney of the University is appointed, could be a professor, an employee or an
external consultant of the university. The Attorney of the University is responsible for
accepting the terms of the complaint, enforcing the respect of the regulation and the
institution interests, for an appropriate prosecution of the proceeding and its conclusion.

c. The investigation committee summons the student involved and the Attorney of the
University for the enquiry of the case, makes a narrative report indicating the confirmed facts
and the persons involved by pointing the responsibles, accomplices or accessories in the
case, and send it to the authority that appointed him within a period no longer than fifteen
days. This authority sends it to the competent authority that started the procedure.

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d. The competent authority that started the procedure by means of a resolution describe the
facts, classifies the sanction, describes the possible sanctions, and sets a meeting with the
student involved to hear his/her only opportunity for a deposition. Furthermore, he/she would set
a meeting with the Attorney of the University to hear his/her opinion.
e. The student involved presents his/her deposition, and the Attorney of the University presents
his/her allegation; and within three working days after the date of the notification of the
resolution mentioned above.
f. With the deposition and resolution presented or without them, and after the hearing described
above with or without the participation of the student involved and the Attorney of the University,
the competent authority that started the procedure by means of a resolution duly supported
decide, in this case, the corresponding sanction.
g. The student involved and the Attorney of the University accept the applied sanction, or in the
other case, within three working days after the date of the notification of the corresponding
resolution, they can write a request to the competent authority that defined the sanction to
reconsider his/her decision supporting the request by means of the presentation of a new
evaluation. After the indicated period expires, the establish sanction is notified.
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h. The student involved and the Attorney of the University may appeal in writing to the resolution
which establish the sanction or resolve the reconsideration within the three business days next
to the notification. Thus, the case will be revised by the immediate competent authority
(hierarchical) superior who defined the sanction. The written document must be presented to the
competent authority who will refer the file to his immediate (hierarchical) superior.
i. The immediate (hierarchical) superior summons to the student involved to present his
defense. In case of non-appearance, the mentioned authority will summon the student involved

for second and last time. The student involved may present his defense by means of writings
that he considered appropriate.
Equally, the immediate (hierarchical) superior summons to the Attorney of the University to
present his defense statement. In case of non-appearance, the mentioned authority will
summon the Attorney of the University for second and last time. The Attorney of the University
may present the Universitys defense by means of writings that he considered appropriate.
j. After hearing the student involved and the Attorney of the University, or in case of have been
summoned with non-appearance twice, the immediate (hierarchical) superior will judge the
matter of the records and additional evidences received and collected, which must
necessarily notify to the student involved and the Attorney of the University. Thus, within a
period no longer than three business day after received the notification, they may convey their
corresponding positions before declarations.
k. The immediate (hierarchical) superior declared his endorsement, partial or total revocation of
the competent authority resolution.
l. The immediate (hierarchical) superior resolutions shall be final and unappealable.
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After the resolution of the immediate (hierarchical) superior has been issued, the file is sent to
the Academic Secretariat to notify the person concerned, to entry the sanction into the students
personal record and, if appropriate, to publish it.
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4. TRANSITIONAL PROVISIONS
The events occurred prior to the enforcement of these Regulations as well as the procedures
being carried out are subject to these Regulations.
5. FINAL PROVISIONS
5.1 The misconducts mentioned in these Regulations are serious offences that result in the
application of sanctions such as temporary or permanent dismissal. This occurs unless the
responsible authority considers that there are extenuating circumstances in a particular case
that only warrant a reprimand, or a reprimand and a grading of 00 in the course.

5.2 The sanctions applied in execution of what is set forth in these Regulations do not substitute
or exonerate from the exercise of the appropriate legal, civil and/or criminal actions.
5.3 These Regulations are interpreted and modified by resolution of the Academic Vice-Rectors
Office.
5.4 These Regulations are enforced on August, 16, 2010.
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