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...adjudication. Just recently, however, it came to light that the Undergraduate council is working with the Dean’s office to search for four students to sit on the Student Faculty Judicial Board, a disciplinary body established in 1987 as an alternative to the Administrative Board. The SFJB exists specifically for cases for which the Administrative Board has no precedent and for which the outcome could have community-wide repercussions.Yet in the last 21 years, the SFJB has heard only two cases—both within the first three years of its establishment. Perhaps this is because the rusty...
Students who face disciplinary action may request that the SFJB hear their case. If the Ad Board does not object, the case will automatically be heard by the SFJB. If it does object, the SFJB will still decide the case unless a majority of its members vote not to decide the case...
...twelve-member SFJB will be made up of six students—four undergraduates and two graduates—as well as faculty and administrators. The UC will work with the secretary of the board to find four undergraduates in good standing to serve on the board for the remainder of the year. The faculty members will be chosen this week, likely by Faculty of Arts and Sciences Dean Michael D. Smith, according to Sundquist...
Students may appeal decisions made by the Ad Board and the SFJB to the Dean of the College or to the Faculty Council if they are facing expulsion or required withdrawal. Such appeals have been rare. But, said Sundquist, “there is a trend toward more people considering the idea of appealing a case...
Sundquist said that the reform committee will discuss the case before the SFJB as it unfolds. “It’s hard to know what’s going to happen because it’s uncharted waters for everyone,” he said...