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...third section, which provides recommendations for incorporating more student participation in the Ad Board process and increasing the role of the Resident Deans, that represents the most important and exciting change to the Ad Board system. Increasing student input would be a fundamentally positive development in reforming Harvard’s disciplinary process...
This is not to ignore the substantial and positive changes that Dean Hammonds has already taken steps to put in place. The College has done a good job of trying to make the Ad Board process more transparent and increasing support for students that appear before the board...
...particular, the change that requires the Secretary of the Ad Board to deliver disciplinary decisions to students instead of their resident deans addresses the difficult and awkward situation of having students’ resident deans act as both their advocates and judges. Under the new rules, personal advisors to students undergoing Ad Board review are also allowed expanded capacity to guide their advisees through Ad Board procedures. In the interest of reducing student anxiety during personal appearances before the Ad Board, such appearances will now take place in front of a much smaller sub-committee of typically...
...students who have not been previously reported for academic dishonesty, two courses of action are possible. If the student denies the charges, the student would be required to appear before the Ad Board. Otherwise, the Secretary of the Ad Board—currently John “Jay” L. Ellison—would meet with the course professor, who would determine whether the case should be sent to the Ad Board or handled with punishments such as mandatory tutoring, a course warning, or a graded penalty...
...proposed two-track solution could help ease faculty apprehensions about turning students over to the board, and administrators say the solution may provide more flexibility in handling cases. Members of the Ad Board have raised concerns that it can be difficult to administer disciplinary action proportional to the degree of infraction or address the nuances of individual cases given the limited options...