Grade Appeal Hearing Committee

(Information in italics below is repeated from the Faculty Bylaws Article VIII, Section 14)

Membership

• Every two years, seven post-probationary teaching faculty members (one from each of the three “divisions” of the College of Arts and Sciences, one from the School of Business, one from the School of Communications, one from the  Dr. Jo Watts Williams School of Education, and one from the School of Health Sciences) will be appointed by Academic Council to serve a two-year term.
• Every year, one Student Government Association representative will be appointed by the student government executive president to serve a one-year term. 
• Each year, in August, the members of the Grade Appeal Hearing Committee will elect one of the seven post-probationary teaching faculty members of the committee to serve as chair of the committee for one year. 

Duties

• To serve as the final grade appeal hearing body for cases in which an undergraduate student appeals a department chair’s/program head's prior decision. 
• To follow the grade appeal process outlined in the Procedures for Appealing a Course Grade section (X28B) of the Faculty Handbook.