Committee on Student Academic Petitions

COMMITTEE MANDATE

Provisionally approved June 2011

When constituted as the Petitions Committee, the Committee shall:

Track statistical data and, in light of them, make recommendations to Council on policy matters and procedures relating to student academic petitions.

Membership:

16 faculty members elected at-large for a two-year term
Eight students appointed by the Student Council of the Liberal Arts & Professional Studies on an annual basis

Ex-officio (non-voting) members
Dean or dean’s designate
Chair of Faculty Council or designate
Secretary of Council or designate

Faculty members will be elected at-large for two-year rolling cycle. Each year, half of the membership turns over and will be replaced on a rotational basis. The Chair of the Committee is selected by the voting members of the Committee for a one-year term. At all times there shall be at least one member from each of the professional, humanities, and social sciences Departments/Schools. Units will self-identify as one of the following: humanities, social science, or professional studies, reported to the Council Office by January 1.
At least half of the voting members of the Committee, the majority of whom are full-time faculty members, constitutes a quorum.

When constituted as the Petitions Adjudications Committee, the Committee shall:

Receive and act on student academic petitions, including petitions against the application of Faculty, Departmental and School rules and regulations;

Meet in panels for consideration of cases for the adjudication of petitions and appeals against previous committee decisions.

Petitions Adjudication Committee Membership:

Panels will consist of six voting members of whom two are students, elected by and from the Committee on Student Academic Petitions. Normally, a panel will have at least three members to adjudicate student academic petitions, of whom one must be a student. During the summer months, or when quorum requirements cannot otherwise be met, membership may be supplemented by a reserve membership drawn from among former members of the Committee. There shall be no ex-officio members.

MEMBERSHIP 2011-2012

Ali Asgary, School of Administrative Studies

Ingrid Splettstoesser, School of Administrative Studies

William Kenneth Little, Department of Anthropology

Andrey Stoyanov, Department of Economics

Henry Tam, Department of Economics

John Bell, Department of English

Phyllis Rozendal, Department of English

Sean Kheraj, Department of History

Kathryn M. McPherson, Department of History

Marina Erechtchoukova, School of Information Technology

Roberta Sinyor, Department of Languages, Literatures, and Linguistics