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Program on Studies in Religion

(April 17, 1974)
(Revised: February 28, 1979)
(Reaffirmed: September 1986

  1. The student shall come as soon as possible to Dr. Ray Rappaport, Director of the Program on Studies in Religion, with a written statement concerning the problem. Dr. Rappaport shall review the statement and speak with the student concerning formal and informal grievance procedures.
  2. The student shall have a choice between a formal or an informal meeting.
  3. If an informal meeting is decided upon, times and dates shall be set by Dr. Rappaport's office staff. Dr. Rappaport may mediate if the student so wishes. If a formal meeting is decided upon, the student will present his grievance at the most immediate meeting of the Committee on Studies in Religion. The Committee meets at least once a semester, but additional meetings may be called when circumstances require it.
  4. Whether formal or informal, the student, professor, and mediator (or mediating group) shall be present at the meeting.
  5. All disputed course work shall be available to the group.
  6. The mediators shall recommend, after listening to the student and the instructor, whether the student's grade should be changed, or, as alternative whether the student should be given an incomplete, partial credit for the course, or some other special arrangement.
  7. The instructor has the final say on the grade.
  8. The mediators shall report to the LS&A Office of Student Academic Affairs the conclusions of the meeting.

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