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<li style="margin-bottom:15px;">Student believes they have grounds to file a grievance against faculty or staff for violations of the UNMC Code of Conduct, other relevant policies, or conditions that adversely impact the student’s ability to successfully complete the professional graduate program. </li> | <li style="margin-bottom:15px;">Student believes they have grounds to file a grievance against faculty or staff for violations of the UNMC Code of Conduct, other relevant policies, or conditions that adversely impact the student’s ability to successfully complete the professional graduate program. </li> | ||
<li style="margin-bottom:15px;">Determine if the grievance involves sexual harassment, UNMC or Nebraska Medicine staff, issues regarding research integrity and research misconduct, violations of federal, state, or local laws, or campus security and safety issues. | <li style="margin-bottom:15px;">Determine if the grievance involves sexual harassment, UNMC or Nebraska Medicine staff, issues regarding research integrity and research misconduct, violations of federal, state, or local laws, or campus security and safety issues. | ||
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<li>All allegations of sexual harassment, including sexual violence, for which the student wishes the University to officially acknowledge and investigate should be reported to the Title IX Coordinator or the Chief Student Affairs Officer. </li> | <li>All allegations of sexual harassment, including sexual violence, for which the student wishes the University to officially acknowledge and investigate should be reported to the Title IX Coordinator or the Chief Student Affairs Officer. </li> | ||
<li>Grievances against UNMC or Nebraska Medicine staff are managed through the relevant policy/procedures by the UNMC human resources. </li> | <li>Grievances against UNMC or Nebraska Medicine staff are managed through the relevant policy/procedures by the UNMC human resources. </li> | ||
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====Formal Grievance Resolution==== | ====Formal Grievance Resolution==== | ||
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<li style="margin-bottom:15px;"> | <li style="margin-bottom:15px;">If the student wants to proceed with a formal grievance and an investigation of the incident(s), then the student submits a written complaint to the ADAP received within 30 university days of the incident. The complaint should identify the following: | ||
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<li style="margin-bottom:15px;"> | <li>the student grievance </li> | ||
<li style="margin-bottom:15px;"> | <li>the faculty member or any other person(s) involved </li> | ||
<li style="margin-bottom:15px;"> | <li>the incident including approximate date and time, and whether the incident is ongoing </li> | ||
<li style="margin-bottom:15px;"> | <li>the policy claimed to have been violated, </li> | ||
<li style="margin-bottom:15px;"> | <li>a brief statement of the remedy sought </li> | ||
<li style="margin-bottom:15px;"> | </ul> | ||
<li style="margin-bottom:15px;"> | </li> | ||
<li style="margin-bottom:15px;"> | <li style="margin-bottom:15px;">The grievance will be acknowledged through email from the ADAP within 5 university days. The faculty member involved will be notified that a grievance has been filed against them and the nature of the grievance. </li> | ||
<li style="margin-bottom:15px;"> | <li style="margin-bottom:15px;">Upon submission of a grievance by the student, a faculty member from the CON will be assigned by the ADAP to the faculty member involved for the duration of the grievance process as a support person. </li> | ||
<li style="margin-bottom:15px;"> | <li style="margin-bottom:15px;">Within 10 university days of the acknowledgement of the complaint, the ADAP will meet with the student and the faculty involved separately to determine whether a preliminary resolution can be reached. All meetings between the ADAP and the involved parties will be recorded. </li> | ||
<li style="margin-bottom:15px;">If a preliminary resolution cannot be achieved, the ADAP, in consultation with the PGNA chair, will appoint an ad-hoc grievance committee. The ad-hoc grievance committee will comprise no fewer than five individuals: 1 appointed faculty chairperson, 2 faculty members, and 2 student representatives. Two student representatives will be from a specialty area different from the student who has filed the grievance. All members of the ad-hoc appeals committee will be equal voting members and will not have a conflict or competing interest in the outcome. </li> | |||
<li style="margin-bottom:15px;">The hearing must be held within 10 university days after receiving the formal written grievance. The names of the hearing committee members must be provided to the student and persons involved at least 5 university days before the hearing so they can decide whether to challenge any of the members on grounds of lack of fairness or impartiality. </li> | |||
<li style="margin-bottom:15px;">The ad-hoc grievance committee chair will request submission of materials pertaining to the grievance from both student and persons involved. Materials or witnesses that either the student or persons involved intend to use in the formal hearing needs to be submitted to the ad-hoc committee within 5 university days of the request. This will be the only time materials and witness names can be submitted. The committee may request additional clarification. </li> | |||
<li style="margin-bottom:15px;">The student may be assisted by an advisor of their choice. The student must inform the committee chair of the advisor’s name at least 24 hours before the hearing. The student advisor may assist the student in formulating the case, and they may be present at the hearing, but they may not actually participate in the proceedings unless the chair specifically permits. </li> | |||
<li style="margin-bottom:15px;">The ad-hoc appeals committee chair will convene and record the hearing. Minutes will be kept of the proceedings. </li> | |||
<li style="margin-bottom:15px;">It is the chair’s responsibility to ensure that the hearing is conducted fairly. The chair will invite the involved parties to offer their testimony separately. The chair will determine the order of presentation and the relevancy of any evidence submitted and will direct the questioning of any witnesses. </li> | |||
<li style="margin-bottom:15px;">Ad-hoc members determine if there was misconduct. The ad-hoc committee chair will immediately notify the PGNA chair and ADAP of the decision, and within 2 university days submits a confidential report which describes the decision-making process, steps taken in the deliberation, and the decision. </li> | |||
<li style="margin-bottom:15px;">If the ad-hoc grievance committee identifies misconduct, the ADAP is responsible for timely corrective action in coordination with the faculty member’s division assistant dean, taking into consideration the recommendations of the ad-hoc grievance committee. Within 10 university days, the ADAP will distribute the conclusion and non-confidential recommended action(s) to the student. </li> | |||
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