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Academic Grievance

To ensure an open atmosphere in academic endeavors, procedures have been established to provide fair process of any academic complaint registered by a student. The procedures are part of the University commitment to maintaining a climate of openness and justice in all areas of academic life. The objective is to provide fair treatment to any student who registers an academic complaint and any faculty member, or any other academic staff member, who is accused of unfairness toward a student.

The first step for students who believe unfair treatment has occurred in their academic experience is to make an appointment and meet and discuss the issue with the respective faculty member or academic staff person. Then, if necessary, the student should discuss, by appointment, the issue with the faculty member's department chair (or division associate dean if the faculty member involved is a department chair), or the supervisor of the academic staff member. If necessary, a third informal step can be taken by the student, that being a conference with the Academic Dean. If the issue is still not resolved, a formal grievance process can be initiated as prescribed in the policy statement available from the Office of Academic Affairs.

Detailed descriptions of the information and formal academic grievance procedures are available to students upon request from the Office of Academic Affairs.

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