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===Additional Procedural Details for the Hearing:=== | ===Additional Procedural Details for the Hearing:=== | ||
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<li style="margin-bottom:15px;">The UG-ARC and UG-ARC Hearing Board must conduct the hearing in a manner that facilitates the presentation of relevant evidence and in accordance with the policies related to UNMC College of Nursing.</li> | <li style="margin-bottom:15px;">The UG-ARC and UG-ARC Hearing Board must conduct the hearing in a manner that facilitates the presentation of relevant evidence and in accordance with the policies related to UNMC College of Nursing. | ||
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<li>The UG-ARC committee is only required to vote to grant or dismiss the appeal. </li> | |||
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<li style="margin-bottom:15px;">The UG-ARC Hearing Board 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 style="margin-bottom:15px;">The UG-ARC Hearing Board 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 style="margin-bottom:15px;">The UG-ARC Hearing Board may then ask questions to clarify what the witness said or to elicit more detailed information. </li> | <li style="margin-bottom:15px;">The UG-ARC Hearing Board may then ask questions to clarify what the witness said or to elicit more detailed information. </li> | ||
<li style="margin-bottom:15px;">The UG-ARC Hearing Board has the discretion to question the witnesses directly or to require the parties to submit answers to questions asked by the UG-ARC Hearing Board. </li> | <li style="margin-bottom:15px;">The UG-ARC Hearing Board has the discretion to question the witnesses directly or to require the parties to submit answers to questions asked by the UG-ARC Hearing Board. </li> | ||
<li style="margin-bottom:15px;">In exercising this discretion, the UG-ARC Hearing Board should consider all the relevant circumstances, including whether there is animosity between the Respondent and the witness, and whether direct questioning would be more efficient or would better enable the presentation of information.</li> | <li style="margin-bottom:15px;">In exercising this discretion, the UG-ARC Hearing Board should consider all the relevant circumstances, including whether there is animosity between the Respondent and the witness, and whether direct questioning would be more efficient or would better enable the presentation of information. | ||
<li style="margin-bottom:15px;">The UG-ARC Hearing Board has the discretion to: </li> | <ol type="a" style="max-width:64em !important;"> | ||
<li>UG-ARC will consider and support faculty’s academic freedom in relation to the course being taught.</li> | |||
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<li style="margin-bottom:15px;">The UG-ARC Hearing Board has the discretion to: | |||
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<li>allow the identified parties to make opening statements, closing statements, or both, with reasonable time limits <li> | |||
<li>The student has the right to be accompanied by a faculty advisor when the student meets with the UG-ARC Hearing Board; and | |||
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<li>that the student may choose anyone as the advisor, including an attorney, but that the student is responsible for any fees that the advisor may charge.</li> | |||
<li>The student’s advisor may provide guidance to the student but may not otherwise directly participate during the proceedings. The student’s advisor may not speak on behalf of the student during the hearing and may not directly participate in any aspect of the hearing. | |||
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<li>Non-compliance with directions from the UG-ARC Hearing Board will result in the student’s advisor being asked to leave the hearing. </li> | |||
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<li>allow witnesses to testify by videoconferencing technology <li> | |||
<li>require that the witnesses who have not yet testified wait somewhere other than the hearing room until they are called to testify<li> | |||
<li>remind the student that there is one designated date that materials can be submitted to support that student's defense. | |||
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<li>If such information was not reasonably previously known to the student prior to the deadline, that information may be forwarded to the UG-ARC Hearing Board, who shall decide the relevance and admissibility of that information. </li> | |||
<li>Prior to the decision the UG-ARC Hearing Board may consult the University regarding the relevance and admissibility of that information. </li> | |||
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<li style="margin-bottom:15px;">Within 5 University days of the conclusion of the hearing, the UG-ARC Hearing Board will determine whether the appeal has been sustained by the evidence. </li> | <li style="margin-bottom:15px;">Within 5 University days of the conclusion of the hearing, the UG-ARC Hearing Board will determine whether the appeal has been sustained by the evidence. </li> | ||
<li style="margin-bottom:15px;">The UG- ARC Hearing Chair will send a report and conclusions via university email with the final decision to:</li> | <li style="margin-bottom:15px;">The UG- ARC Hearing Chair will send a report and conclusions via university email with the final decision to:</li> | ||