Opinion ID: 6349800
Heading Depth: 3
Heading Rank: 3

Heading: Findings Phase

Text: In the third and final Findings phase, the Ad Board members decided whether they were sufficiently persuaded that 9The DCR may disguise the identity of a complainant and witnesses by blacking out some details and substituting names, but the record before us neither shows nor tells us whether the subcommittee took this step. - 11 - the accused had violated the rules of student conduct as charged. Though present during the deliberations, neither the Board Reps, nor the resident deans for the complainant and the accused, nor the fact finder, voted on the outcome. If the Ad Board was sufficiently persuaded, it then determined what disciplinary consequence to impose (ranging from a formal admonishment to dismissal or expulsion from the school). Each student learned through their Board Rep the Ad Board's decision. An aggrieved student found warranting a disciplinary sanction of either a requirement to withdraw or probation for more than one term had additional appellate rights as spelled out in the Ad Board Procedures. The student could, in writing, request reconsideration and the Faculty Council (a separate administrative body composed of the Dean of the FAS and eighteen faculty members which meets monthly) would entertain it as follows. If filed, the Ad Board Chair and the student could file further written responses. Once the record was supplemented, all case materials got forwarded to the docket committee for its consideration.10 If the docket committee determined the case merit[ed] an appeal all the materials were then forwarded to the Faculty Council, which The docket committee is a subcommittee of three members of 10 the Faculty Council tasked with organizing the order of business at the Faculty Council's monthly meetings. - 12 - reviewed, discussed, and adjudicated the appeal. The Secretary of the Faculty notified the appealing student of the outcome.