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Their stories provide a rare window into the often overlooked consequences of withdrawal from the College. Every year, an average of 70 Harvard students face a “requirement to withdraw??—the Ad Board’s most common response to cases of academic dishonesty and a relatively standard response to serious academic failures...
With a board composed of 33 members, personal appearances—allowed when students may be required to withdraw??are difficult for everyone involved, and some students find it hard to coherently state their case. Next year, instead of appearing before the full Board, students will meet with a subcommittee of approximately six Board members. In this less intimidating setting, information can be more easily exchanged, lessons can be learned, and students can interact directly with board members. Additionally, in a smaller and more private location than the Forum room of Lamont Library—currently the venue...
...nonetheless enduring punishment under a supposedly fair system, the reverse has just as frequently occurred. Convicted sex offenders have routinely received punishments less severe than expulsion from the Ad Board and the Faculty. The most severe case, when admitted rapist D. Drew Douglas was “required to withdraw?? by the Ad Board, elicited such widespread campus outrage in 1999 that a meeting of the full Faculty dismissed him outright by a wide margin. Yet this is the exception to the rule — dismissal is a punishment that has only been employed once in nearly...
Next Monday, the fifth Monday of the semester, will—like always—be the last day for students to add or drop a course without incurring a “withdraw?? mark on their academic transcripts. Were it up to the students who attended last week’s Faculty Council meeting, however, this long-standing deadline would have a later date. During the meeting, students presented a proposal to move the deadline to drop classes to the seventh Monday of the semester. An extended drop period, they argued, would allow students to take more...
...questions about the College’s alcohol policy at an introductory proctor meeting. In that interaction with the administrator, the student was even threatened with being Adboarded—which means facing the judicial body composed of administrators that can put students on probation or require them to withdraw??just for asking a question...
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