Graduate students should be given a fair opportunity to correct or remedy deficiencies in their academic performance with agreed upon timetables for remedy. Graduate students have a right to co-authorship in publications involving significant contribution of ideas or research work from the student. 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 should have representatives on all campus-wide committees, with voting privileges where appropriate according to the guidelines of shared governance. 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.