The procedures outlined here provide students in the College of Education with the appropriate steps to pursue petitions, appeals, academic grievances and non-academic grievances.

• Student petitions request relief from or deviation in the academic regulations of the University or the College of Education.
• Student appeals request decisions made at a lower level of authority to be reversed or modified.
• The basis of an academic grievance shall be a complaint about a grade in a course, an absence that affects the final grade in a course or a violation of Teaching Responsibility policies contained in the Faculty Manual.
• A non‐academic grievance is a complaint by a student about an alleged action by a university employee which adversely affects the status, rights or privileges of the student. Grievances relating to discrimination by reason of age, color, gender, disability, national origin, genetics, race, religion, sexual orientation, or veteran’s status will be referred to the Office of Civil Rights & Title IX. In addition, the Student Disability Resource Center will assist students with disabilities with University grievance procedures. For purposes of this policy, harassment is considered to be a type of discrimination.