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Grievances
Students who feel they have been unfairly treated by any faculty or staff member should speak directly with the individual involved. If the student feels that additional action is required or feels unable to speak directly with the staff member involved, the student should speak with the appropriate supervisor.
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Our desire is to provide the best experience possible for students as they pursue their education. We realize there may be an occasion where students have a concern or complaint. In such cases we seek to provide an efficient response and resolution to students concerns and complaints. We have established several situation-specific processes for students to express their concerns and complaints. We strongly encourage you to attempt resolving the situation directly with the offending person/department prior to filing a concern/complaint. A The Community portlet on theROCK home > Student Home page provides details and portlet as to appeal a link to appeal and complaint procedures.
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- Restitution/Reconciliation: The student is required to initiate action to mend a relationship with an individual, a specific group or the university community at large. That action may be through an apology, financial reimbursement, and/or service to the community.
- Fines or Sanctions: Penalties deemed appropriate by corresponding departments.
- Disciplinary Warning: A warning is communicated to a student that his or her behavior and/or choices should change or cease. A warning may be issued when a student is in jeopardy of further disciplinary action.
- Disciplinary Accountability: Accountability is an expectation, initiated by the university or student, to spend a period of time actively addressing matters of concern through accountability.
- Disciplinary Probation: Probation is an opportunity for the student to actively address areas of concern through accountability when choices that have been made violate community guidelines. Continued violation of community guidelines will result in disciplinary suspension from the university.
The purpose of disciplinary probation is to provide additional external discipline and counseling for a student struggling to abide by Northwestern’s standards and policies. Conditions of probation may include but are not limited to: a contract stating behavior changes and expectations; weekly meetings with an assigned faculty/staff member; pledge of adherence to the Declaration of Christian Community; and completion of a topical assignment, seminar, or series addressing personal development. Students involved in co-curricular or extracurricular activities (i.e., athletics, music, drama, leadership roles) are subject to certain restrictions that would adjust levels of involvement for a determined period of time. Specific information on these restrictions is available from the DE office or from the appropriate coach/advisor. - Disciplinary Suspension: A suspension is when a student loses the privilege of continuing at Northwestern for a designated period of time. Disciplinary suspension may be implemented at any time (immediately or at the completion of a semester), based upon flagrant or repeated violations of Northwestern’s standards.
The university intends that disciplinary suspension allows the student to reevaluate personal spirituality, values, and attitude toward Northwestern’s standards. A student placed on disciplinary suspension is restricted from the university premises for the duration of the suspension. Requests for permission to be on campus must be processed in advance through the director Director of public safety Public Safety and/or the Director of Dual Enrollment.
Applications for readmission must include a written account of this evaluation and a pledge to abide by Northwestern policies. Readmission requests are submitted to and approved by appropriate DE staff the Director of Undergraduate PathwaysDual Enrollment. All students who are readmitted return under disciplinary accountability or probation. In the rare case that a student is subject to disciplinary suspension for a second time after being readmitted, the student is not permitted to re-enroll at Northwestern. - Disciplinary Expulsion: An expulsion is when a student permanently loses the privilege of attending Northwestern. Expulsion may be implemented at any time (immediately or at the completion of a semester), based upon flagrant or repeated violations of Northwestern’s standards.
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