Purpose and Applicability
Georgia State University seeks to maintain the highest standards of integrity and fairness in its relationships with students. The Undergraduate Catalog and the Graduate Catalog (both found at http://www.gsu.edu/es/catalogs_courses.html), and the Student Code of Conduct (http://www2.gsu.edu/%7Ewwwdos/codeofconduct.html) set forth policies and requirements for Georgia State students. Students are expected to know and comply with these policies. Students may, however, seek relief or resolution when they believe that:
A. The application of these policies and procedures will create undue hardship for them or will not recognize their extraordinary or extenuating circumstances; or
B. Specific actions, practices, or decisions on academic or non-academic matters have been made or carried out in an arbitrary, discriminatory, or inequitable manner. The procedures set forth below cover complaints, petitions, and appeals related to University-wide and college-based policies. Individual colleges or departments may have additional or more specific procedures that may also apply to complaints, petitions, and appeals. Students are referred to the office of the dean of the particular college for information about additional or more specific procedures that apply. In case of conflict among policies, this University policy takes precedence over College and Departmental policies.
The following policies include their own complaint, petition and waiver procedures. This policy may not be used in lieu of these policies.
1. Any policy for anyone other than a student to make a complaint, file a grievance, or request a waiver, such as policies that govern faculty and staff.
2. All policies in the student code of conduct
3. Hardship withdrawal policy
4. Admission, readmission, and exclusion policies
5. Discriminatory and sexual harassment policies
6. Disability policies
7. College of Law Honor Code
8. Student parking policy
The procedures set forth below are applicable to undergraduate and graduate students of the University.
All appeals under these procedures will be made based only on the written record. A student’s appeal under these procedures will be granted only if the student can prove by preponderance of evidence that a decision was arbitrary, discriminatory, or inequitable.