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December 13, 2002
Senate approves class
disruption policy
The Faculty Senate approved a policy to deal with classroom disruptions
during its Dec. 10 meeting.
The policy provides for temporary or permanent suspension of disruptive
students. Under the policy, instructors would need to ask the department
chair or program director (or next level of administration if the instructor
is an administrator) to have a student suspended. Upon approval, the student
would be suspended while an investigation was conducted.
Conditions might be set for students who are allowed to return to class
after the investigation. If a student is permanently suspended from the
class, the chair will notify the appropriate university officials. Students
can appeal the decision through the academic grievance process.
The senate debated a provision in the policy that would record permanent
suspension from a class as a drop that would count toward the total number
of drops a student may have during his or her college career.
Some senators pointed out a student who already had the total number of
allowable drops would receive an "F" for the course, while another who had
not used all the allowable drops would have the suspension recorded as a
drop. That system would result in inequitable treatment of students, some
said.
"Why not allow us to give them an 'F' and throw them out of class?" asked
Dan Bullen, mechanical engineering.
But Carla Fehr, philosophy, said "I don't think faculty should punish. I
think that should be done by someone else."
Others questioned whether students would use disruptive behavior in class as
a way to receive a drop for a course after the deadline had passed for
dropping courses in the normal manner.
In the end, the senators decided that students who are permanently suspended
from a course for disruptive behavior should receive an "administrative
drop," which does not count toward the total number of drops a student may
have.
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