Students have the right of access to their personal educational records. 2.1.7 Students have the right to access all policies, rules and decisions concerning their continued enrollment, and to the required course materials and facilities necessary to pursue their studies. 2.1.8 Students have the right to educational programs that meet the objectives of the master syllabus, to teaching consistent with those objectives, and to a learning environment that encourages the students' engagement with their education. Students have the right to be informed by the faculty near the beginning of each course about course requirements, evaluation procedures, and evaluation criteria to be used, and the right to expect that those criteria be employed. Students have the right to request and receive timely assessment of their academic work by the instructor.
Students have the right to request and receive timely review of their grades by the instructor.
Students have the right of complaint about academic matters if they believe their rights have been violated. When not covered by another policy, a complaint is properly filed by presenting the issue first to the faculty member. If not resolved between the student and the faculty member, the student may take the issue to the department chairperson. If not resolved at this level, the student may take the complaint to the office of the dean of the college. As citizens, students have the same duties and obligations as do other citizens and enjoy the same freedoms of speech, press, religion, peaceful assembly, and petition that other citizens enjoy.