CON Guidelines For Suspected Breach of Professional Behavior: Difference between revisions

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+<li>The CON Hearing Officer must conduct the hearing in a manner that facilitates the presentation of relevant evidence and in accordance with the UNMC Student Code of Conduct.  (link here again) </li>
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+<li>The Hearing Officer has the discretion to allow the use of a question-and-answer format or allow a witness to make an oral statement about what the witness knows about the matter. </li>
+<li>The Hearing Officer or the members of the hearing panel may then ask questions to clarify what the witness said or to elicit more detailed information.</li>
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+<li>The CON Hearing Officer has the discretion to allow the DHB to question the witnesses directly or to require the parties to submit suggested questions for the CON Hearing Officer to ask.</li>
+<li>In exercising this discretion, the Hearing Officer or Chair should consider all the relevant circumstances, including whether there is animosity between the Respondent and the witness, whether the charges involve violence, threats, or harassment of the witness by the Respondent, and whether direct questioning would be more efficient or would better enable the Respondent to present their information.</li>
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