Graduate students have a right to co-authorship in publications involving significant contribution of ideas or research work from the student. The student should receive first authorship for publications which are comprised primarily of the creative research and writing of the student when consistent with the conventions of the field. Graduate students have a right to reasonable confidentiality in their communication with professors. Graduate students have a right to refuse to perform tasks that are not closely related to their academic programs or professional development. Teaching assistants and teaching associates have a right to appropriate teacher training.
Graduate students have a right to professional training.
This should include but not be limited to information about professional associations and conferences, mock interviews, job opportunities and publishing articles in journals. Graduate students have a right to share in the governance of the University. Graduate students have a right to clearly defined official grievance procedures and informal complaint procedures at the department and campus-wide levels. Each department should have grievance procedures. Consistent with this right, graduate students have a right to procedures appropriate to the nature of the case and the severity of the potential discipline.