Requirements For All Courses

Students more than 5 minutes late to class are considered late. If a student is late after 3 times, it will be considered an absence. Due to the short nature of this course and its condensed content, students are only allowed one absence during lab or theory portion of the entire course. If a student misses one day of lab or theory or is late 3 times, the student MUST make up that theory or lab day on the pre-designated make-up day which is noted on the Master Schedule and discussed the first day of class. There are no other offered make-up days and there are no exceptions. If a student misses more than 1 day of class, they will be removed from the course without a refund.

Students are expected to make every clinical day as there are only five of them and students are made aware of the clinical days well in advance. If a student misses clinical there is no makeup day for clinical during their class offering. The student must wait until the next scheduled clinical rotation day offered by the school for the next class offering. Classes are offered every 6 weeks. The student must note that if the class offering is not in session due to low or no enrollment, or if the class is too full, they may need to wait until the next course/ clinical offering. Students MUST take the next offered clinical rotation offered by the school and cannot choose from dates that they prefer. Students will not have to wait any longer than 12 weeks to finish the missed/ final clinical day. There is no fee for this make-up day.

If a student misses a day of class, it is up to them to contact the instructor and make the proper arrangements. Excessive tardiness, excessive lateness or excessively leaving class early will cause in student termination from the program with no refund.

To graduate from the programs, each student must satisfy the 120-clock hour requirement (BNATP or Phlebotomy program) (80-clock hours for EKG program). Therefore, there are no excuses for absences. It is the student’s responsibility to do the following regarding attendance:

Clear personal calendar of all appointments that conflict with a class or clinical hours. Physical, Immunization, and Drug Screen appointments are NOT for ANY reason scheduled during class time. You are responsible for making these appointments outside of class time. You will NOT be excused from class to go to these appointments. All these appointments should be completed before Orientation.

Absences must be made up with the instructor at the student’s expense before credit can be earned for the course. This rate is currently billed at $45/hour at a minimum of four-hour increment.

Tardiness

Students are required to be on time for Class.  This means you should be seated at the scheduled class time.

If a test/quiz is in progress, and you are tardy, you will not be allowed to start the test/quiz.  It is at the instructor’s discretion as to whether the test/quiz can be made up at a later time.

Students are required to be back in the classroom on time after each break.

Tardiness will be accumulated and counted as an absence in 10-minute intervals.

One verbal warning will be issued, the second a written warning, and the third may result in dismissal from the class.

A Student can be dropped seven calendar days after the start of the class for the following reasons.

1. Failure to meet the attendance requirement as defined above during the first week of class.
2. Failure to contact the instructor for tardiness or absences as defined above.

Violations

Violations of the Code of Academic Conduct are activities (observed or reported) that demonstrate character that is deceitful and dishonest.

All employees, including full and part-time faculty members, staff and employees who are directly involved or indirectly involved in teaching or overseeing the work of the students, are authorized to report incidents of dishonesty that they witness to the appropriate faculty member or employees and are encourage to self-report any violations in which they have participated.

The Code of Academic Conduct prohibits violations of academic integrity, including but not limited to:

Cheating: In any work submitted for evaluation (tests or assignments), copying, or attempting to copy from another student’s work; using or attempting to use unauthorized collaboration with others who may or may not be students, in work to be presented for a grade; altering graded work after it has been returned then submitting the work to be re-graded; tampering with the work of other students. 

Plagiarism: Presenting the work of another as one’s own (i.e., without proper acknowledgment of the source or sources) or submitting material that is not entirely one’s own work without attributing the unoriginal portions to their correct sources. The sole exception to the requirement of acknowledging sources occurs when ideas or information are common knowledge.

Falsification and Fabrication: Altering, counterfeiting, or inventing information or material presented in evaluation activity, “padding” a bibliography with made up titles or works not consulted, or providing false citations in footnotes, using inappropriate methods for collecting or generating data or including a substantially inaccurate account of the method by which the data were gathered or collected.

Abuse of Academic Materials: Destroying, stealing, or making inaccessible library, laboratory, or other resource material, or attempting to do so, stealing or otherwise obtaining advance copies of placement tests, examinations or other course materials or attempting to do so, duplicating copyrighted software without authorization or using such software on school computers, “hacking” on school computers or installing virus programs.

Complicity in Academic Dishonesty: Helping another to commit an act of dishonesty, especially providing material or information to another person with knowledge that this material or information will be used deceitfully in an evaluation activity, permitting one’s own work to be submitted by another person as if it were that person’s original work.

Falsification of Records and Official Documents: Altering grade reports, or other documents affecting records, forging signature of authorization or falsifying information on any document, such as permission forms, petitions, or other documents.

Personal Misrepresentation and Proxy: Taking another person’s place in an exam, activity, either before or after enrollment, having another person participate in an evaluation activity or evaluation in place of oneself.

Bribes, Favors, Threats: Bribing or attempting to bribe, promising favors to, or making threats against any person, with the intention of affecting an evaluation of a student’s performance, conspiring with another person who then performs one of these acts on one’s behalf.

Filing a Complaint

If the faculty member determines that a situation involves an apparent Code violation, he or she will confer with the Program Coordinator and will then write a written complaint which will then be reviewed by the Faculty, Program Coordinator, and Student. The process will include:

• Notifying the student by mail that the complaint has been filed (enclosing copies of the complaint and the Code of Academic Conduct) and inviting the student to an initial meeting.
• Placing the student’s registration on temporary hold, so that he or she can neither withdraw from the course in question nor register for future courses until the current question is settled. If the process cannot be completed within 10 working days, the instructor will be directed to assign the student an Incomplete (Inc) grade in place of a course grade, to be changed when the matter is resolved.

It is the responsibility of The Miller Academy of Allied Health to provide equal access to educational opportunities by maintaining an orderly, civil, and safe educational environment.

The purpose of the Code of Student Conduct is to provide fair and reasonable rules, regulations, policies, and procedures to promote human development and to ensure that students do not engage in conduct that materially or substantially interferes with the requirements appropriate to any student, in class or out of class. Sanctions imposed for violating the Code may include sanctions up to and including separation from the school.

Students at The Miller Academy of Allied Health are expected to demonstrate qualities of good moral values, honesty, civility, honor, and respect. Behavior that violates this standard is represented by, but not necessarily limited to the following list. Any student found to have committed the following misconduct is subject to the disciplinary sanctions:

1. Acts of dishonesty, including but not limited to the following:
   1. Furnishing false information to any school official, faculty member or office.
   2. Forgery, alteration, or misuse of any school document, record, or instrument of identification.

2. Speech and related behavior
   1. Any verbal or physical behavior, such as disparaging comment, epithet, slur, insult, or other expressive behavior, that is directed at a particular person or a group of persons and which creates an environment wherein the verbal or physical behavior is inherently likely to provoke a violent reaction whether or not it actually does so.
   2. Behavior by any reason materially disrupts the class work of others, involves substantial disorder, invades the rights of others, or otherwise disrupts the regular and essential operation of the school
   3. Disruption or obstruction of teaching and activities.
   4. Physical abuse, verbal abuse, threats, intimidation, harassment, coercion, sexual assault and/or other conduct which threatens or endangers the health or safety of any person.

3. Attempted or actual theft of and/or damage to property of the school or property of a member of the school or other personal or public property.
4. Failure to comply with directions of School officials or law enforcement officers acting in performance of their duties and/or failure to identify oneself to these persons when requested to do so.
5. Unauthorized possession, duplication, or use of keys to any school premises or unauthorized entry to or use of school premises.
6. Violation of published school policies, rules or regulations.
7. Use, possession or distribution of narcotic or other controlled substances except as expressly permitted by law.
8. Use, possession or distribution of alcoholic beverages except as expressively permitted by the law and school regulations. Public intoxication.
9. Illegal or unauthorized possession of firearms, explosives, or other weapons, or dangerous chemicals on school premises.
10. Theft or other abuse of computer time, including but not limited to:
11. 1. Unauthorized entry into a file, to use, read, or change the contents, or for any other purpose.
    2. Unauthorized transfer of a file.
    3. Unauthorized use of another individual’s identification and password.
    4. Use of computing facilities to interfere with the work of another student, faculty member or school official.
    5. Use of computing facilities to send obscene or abusive messages.
    6. Use of computing facilities to interfere with normal operation of the school computing system.

Sexual Assault
It is the intent of this policy to prevent any occurrence of sexual assault at The Miller Academy of Allied Health. All members of the school are expected to follow procedures if questions or problems arise. Sexual assault is illegal under state and federal law. The Miller Academy of Allied Health will not tolerate sexual harassment/assault in any form.

Sexual Harassment/Assault is constituted by:
Physical contact of a sexual nature that is against one’s will or without one’s consent. Rape, including acquaintance rape, defined as sexual intercourse that is against one’s will or without one’s consent.

In addition to any criminal prosecution that is initiated, The Miller Academy of Allied Health will pursue disciplinary action through its own channels when there is a reason to believe that the school regulations against sexual assault have been violated. Thus, a member of the school may be persecuted by the state and disciplined by the school at the same time, and even if criminal authorities choose not to prosecute, the school may pursue disciplinary action.

Those wishing to file a sexual assault complaint against another member of the school for a violation of this policy should inform the Program Coordinator or other administrative staff as soon as possible after the incident has occurred. The Program Coordinator or designated administrator will proceed in accordance with the formal procedures of the Sexual Harassment Policy.

All reports or complaints will be promptly investigated. Substantiated charges will result in appropriate corrective action up to and including discharge or expulsion of the offending party. In responding to complaints of sexual assault, rights of due process will be afforded. At all times, the parties’ rights to confidentiality will be respected and protected. Any person who, in good faith, brings forth a complaint of sexual assault will not be subjected to retaliation.

The Miller Academy of Allied Health does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, creed, religion, national origin, disability, age, marital status, veteran’s status, sex, or sexual orientation in admission to and participation in its educational programs, school activities and services, or its employment practices.

Inquiries regarding compliance with nondiscrimination policies and regulations should be directed to the Program Coordinator.