Non-performance

Students should be mindful of the fact that teaching, research,and proctorship appointments are part of their professional training. Such appointments establish a responsibility to the faculty and students within the academic unit.

Performance in these appointments is also a component of a student’s academic review. Students who fail to perform in their funded Graduate School appointments (as RAs, TAs, fellows or proctors) can be terminated and their funding suspended under the following conditions:

• gross negligence and failure to appear,
• failure to complete work,
• inappropriate behavior in the classroom or laboratory, or
• violations of the Academic or Non-Academic Code

Such students will have their funding terminated regardless of other indices of academic standing.

Grounds for termination must be presented in writing to the Graduate School in the form of an academic disciplinary procedure.The case will be heard by the academic disciplinary board.(See the Academic Code.) As with all such cases, the student has the right to appeal such a decision.