13.3. Academic Evaluation

The University Senate Grade Appeals Board has the authority to hear charges of inequitable or biased academic evaluations and to provide redress for any improper evaluations it may find to have taken place. This process is for course grades assigned by the instructors of the courses, including grades for independent study, thesis, and dissertation credits. Policy 337 has the procedural details. Salient points repeated here are that the student must initiate a request for a change of grade with the instructor within 15 instructional days of the first day of the semester immediately following the semester in which the grade was awarded. During an appeal, the burden of proof is on the student.