CON Undergraduate and Professional Graduate Student Disciplinary Appeal Rules of the Faculty Organization: Difference between revisions

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===Membership Requirements:===
===Membership Requirements:===
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     <li style="margin-bottom:15px;">All voting members of the General Faculty Organization who are .50 FTE or greater are equally eligible for membership. The Dean of the College of Nursing, Associate Dean of Academic Programs, Undergraduate and Professional Graduate Program Directors, Division Assistant Deans or Director(s), Academic Coordinators are ineligible to sit on this committee. </li>
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     <li style="margin-bottom:15px;">Fifteen faculty members (Three from each division) will be selected by a vote from General Faculty Organization (GFO).  From each division, one undergraduate, one graduate and one at – large faculty member will be chosen by the GFO vote.  This is a two (2) year term. </li>
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     <li style="margin-bottom:15px;">For each (appeal) hearing, a subcommittee of three faculty will be selected to participate on the Hearing Subcommittee.  Selection for the Hearing Subcommittee will consider the level of the student appealing the disciplinary action (graduate vs undergraduate) and also consideration of a conflict of interest (should represents a campus not involved).</li>
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     <li style="margin-bottom:15px;">One of these 3 faculty will serve as chair for the hearing.  Previous committee experience is a preferred qualification for the Disciplinary Hearing Subcommittee Chair.</li>
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     <li style="margin-bottom:15px;">The chair of the hearing subcommittee shall appoint a person, who may or may not be a member of the disciplinary appeal committee or hearing subcommittee, to act as secretary of the hearing.  The secretary shall keep minutes of the hearing's proceedings and shall also cause a verbatim record of the hearing to be prepared and maintained.</li>
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     <li style="margin-bottom:15px;">Each member of the appeals committee (faculty and student) will have one vote in the appeal.    All members of the appeals committee will not have a conflict or competing interest in the outcome.</li>
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     <li style="margin-bottom:15px;">No student and no more than 2 faculty members may serve on both the Disciplinary Appeal Committee and the CON Academic Appeals Committee which is empowered to hear student appeals involving grades and solely academic matters.</li>
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     <li style="margin-bottom:15px;">In the event the faculty member proposing the disciplinary action, or the student against whom such action is proposed, is a member of the Disciplinary Appeal Committee, another faculty member will be chosen for the Disciplinary Hearing Subcommittee.  If required, the Dean shall designate another faculty member or student to serve during the period when that particular matter is being discussed.</li>
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     <li style="margin-bottom:15px;">Names of Disciplinary Appeal Committee members are submitted by the Dean to the Chancellor’s Office at the beginning of the fall semester. Changes in membership shall be promptly communicated with the Chancellor. </li>
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