Residence Life Case Review Requests
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Residence Life professional staff members may issues sanctions for minor infractions of published housing-related policies (e.g. open house, candles, smoking, pranks, sports in the hall, building damage, etc.). Students who receive these sanctions have an option to request a case review through the Dean of Students.
Grounds for a Case Review:
- Evidence related to the case is now available that was unavailable or unknown at the time of the initial student conduct meeting that could considerably affect the outcome.
- The university significantly deviated from its stated conduct procedures in such a way that materially affected the fairness of the student conduct meeting.
- The sanction(s) is/are substantially disproportionate to the severity of the violation, and/or more severe than published standard sanctions.
Process:
Requests for Case Reviews must be submitted in writing to the Dean of Students (jwitte@calvin.edu) within five days. The request must be accompanied by documentation of the evidence supporting the grounds for the appeal. Â The stated grounds for appeal will be evaluated and if it is determined that sufficient grounds for case review exist, the case review will go forward.