Academic Rights

Students have the right to:

• Be informed of course expectations and requirements.
• Be evaluated fairly on the basis of academic performance.
• Participate in free and open discussion, inquiry, and expression, both in the classroom and in conference.
• Receive competent instruction and advisement.
• Expect protection against professors’ improper disclosure of students’ personal information, views, beliefs, and political associations when such information has become known as a result of professors’ instructions, advisement, or counsel.
• Expect protection, through established procedures, against prejudicial or capricious evaluation.
• Assess the value of a course to make suggestions as to its direction and to evaluate both the instructor and the instruction they have received.
• Have input in university policy-making, which may include, but shall not be limited to, course scheduling distribution of night and day classes, calendar arrangements, library policy and development, grading systems, course development, and curriculum.
• Expect instructors to conduct themselves professionally in the classroom in accordance with university policies and directives.
• Expect instructors to maintain office hours as required by university policy.
• Expect reasonable academic assistance from the appropriate department.
• Be informed of academic standards for the courses in which they are enrolled. Except when exempted by university policy, each for-credit academic course’s learning management system (LMS) materials will include the following items or external links to them: a syllabus, an explanation of how final course grades are determined (e.g., a course grading policy), and access to records of completed evaluations (e.g., points in a gradebook or feedback on student progress).
• Have every reasonable effort made to ensure course and instructional materials are as accessible as possible to all.