Policies

Accessibility statement

This course website is designed to meet WCAG 2.1 Level AA accessibility standards. All content is built with semantic HTML, keyboard navigation, visible focus indicators, sufficient color contrast, and respect for reduced-motion preferences. Videos on the Lessons page use YouTube's auto-generated captions; if you need higher-accuracy captions, a transcript, or an alternative format, contact me and I'll provide one within 48 hours.

If you have a documented disability, please work with ACC Student Accessibility Services (SAS) to request accommodations. SAS will coordinate with me directly. You do not need to disclose the nature of your disability to me.

If you encounter any part of this site that isn't accessible to you, email me and I will fix it immediately. Accessibility isn't optional.

FERPA — Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act

Your educational records — grades, submissions, attendance, and any work you produce for this course — are protected under FERPA. This means:

• I cannot discuss your grades with parents, spouses, employers, or any other third party without your written consent.
• I cannot discuss grades over email, phone, or text in a way that could identify you. If you want to discuss your grade, we'll meet in person or over Zoom, where I can confirm your identity.
• Graded work is returned in Blackboard, which is FERPA-compliant ACC infrastructure. This course website does not store any educational records.
• I will never post grades publicly, even with names redacted. Any published student work is either de-identified or used only with explicit written consent.

Academic integrity

ACC's Student Standards of Conduct apply to all work in this course. Academic dishonesty — including plagiarism, unauthorized collaboration, fabricated data, and unauthorized use of AI tools — results in a zero on the assignment and is reported to the Dean of Student Affairs.

On AI tools specifically: using ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, or similar tools to generate answers you submit as your own is plagiarism. Using them to explain a concept, check your reasoning, or debug a formula is learning. When in doubt, ask me before you submit.

Copyright & content use

Course materials on this website — lecture videos, slides, problem sets, writing — are copyright © Russell Holloway and licensed to enrolled BUSI 2305 students for personal educational use. Please don't redistribute, repost, or resell course materials. Linking to this site from your own notes or study resources is fine.

Public data, open datasets, and third-party sources linked on the Data page remain the property of their respective owners. See each source's terms of use before redistribution.

Title IX & safe campus

ACC is committed to maintaining a learning environment free from sex discrimination, sexual harassment, and sexual violence. As a faculty member, I am a responsible employee — meaning if you disclose an experience of sexual harassment, assault, or discrimination to me, I am required to report it to the ACC Title IX Coordinator. If you'd like to speak with someone confidentially, please contact the ACC Counseling Center instead, whose staff are not mandatory reporters.

More at ACC Title IX.

Changes to this policy page

The content on this page reflects ACC policy as of the current term. If ACC updates its policies mid-term in a way that affects you, I'll announce it via ACCmail and update this page. The authoritative policy always lives on austincc.edu; anything here is a summary for convenience.