In collaboration with the Graduate School, faculty, other entities of the University, and most importantly with fellow graduate students, we have created new and robust academic grievance procedures for graduate students. Our new policy was unanimously approved by the Brown University Faculty in early November and put into effect immediately. Enhancing the academic grievance procedures has been a priority of the Graduate Student Council since the beginning of 2018 as graduate students recognized the need for modifications to this essential and often sensitive process.
Responding to the needs and advice of graduate students and utilizing existing policies from our peer institutions, the working group who formulated the revised procedures incorporated several important new features:
-explicit time frames for responses to grievances
-student involvement in the adjudication of grievances
-clear distinctions between informal efforts and the formal grievance process
-compulsory documentation
-ability to appeal at multiple levels
Please find our new academic grievance procedures here.