6.4 UNIVERSITY APPEALS BOARD
6.4.1 FUNCTIONS OF THE UNIVERSITY APPEALS BOARD
6.4.1.1 CASES OF ACADEMIC OFFENSES
See “Appeals,” above.
6.4.1.2 CASES OF GRADE APPEAL – ROLE OF ACADEMIC OMBUD
See “Functions, jurisdiction and procedures of the office,” above.
6.4.1.3 CASES OF STUDENT ACADEMIC RIGHTS
After hearing a case involving a violation of student academic rights as set forth herein, the UAB may select from the following remedies:
- The UAB may direct that a student be informed about the content, grading standards and procedures of a course when a violation of the pertinent rules has been proved.
- When an academic evaluation based upon anything other than a good-faith judgment of a student has been proved, the UAB may direct that a student's grade in a course be changed to a “W” (withdrawal) or a “P” (passing, credit toward graduation but not toward GPA) or, if such determination can be made, to an appropriate letter grade. If the UAB awards a student a “P” in the course, it shall appear on their record regardless of the fact that the student's college or academic unit does not normally recognize “P” grades. The educational unit must accept that course just as if the student had passed the course in the normal manner, except that the “P” grade is not used in calculating the student's GPA.
* It is reasonable for the University Appeals Board to change a course grade only if the University Appeals Board first makes an official determination that the course grade was based on other than “good-faith judgment.”
* A faculty employee whose career is potentially harmed by an allegedly errant University Appeals Board factual determination that the instructor made other than a “good-faith judgment” has recourse to the Faculty Advisory Committee on Privilege and Tenure (FACPT) which will remain as a committee until the Faculty Senate is in place.
- The University Appeals Board may take any reasonable action calculated to guarantee other student academic rights.
* The qualification “other” here has the effect that “Cases of Student Academic Rights” (item #3), item #3 only applies to situations different from the specific factual circumstances that apply to “Cases of Student Academic Rights” (item #2).
* In its procedures for hearing cases and in its disposition of cases, the University Appeals Board must operate within the parameters established by the Administrative Regulations. These include the procedural parameters that a student can cause a case of grievance of violation of academic rights to reach to and be decided by the University Appeals Board only by the student having first lodged and processed the grievance with the Academic Ombud.
* Academic appeals by students enrolled in clinical residency or clinical fellow program are governed by AR “Appeal Procedure for Graduate Medical Education Residents and Fellows,” except, if the student is enrolled in and appealing a grade or academic matter in an approved course, then the appeal is governed by the Administrative Regulations.