tuesday, november3, 1981
daily nebraskan
page 3
Upset students can appeal
grades to various committees
By Joe Kreizinger
Students dissatisfied with their grades in
any UNL class can appeal them through
the departmental or college grade appeals
committees, said Allan Dittmer, UNL om
budsman. Dittmer said a discontented student
should first arrange an appointment with
the individual instructor. If the problem
cannot be resolved at that level, the stu
dent should then talk with the department
chairperson, he said.
"The department chairperson will try to
mediate a negotiation between student and
professor," Dittmer said. "An actual ap
peal can often be avoided by this meeting."
According to Dittmer, if the controver
sy is still unresolved after this step, the
complaint must be put in writing and pre
sented to the department head. The depart
ment must then assemble its grade appeals
committee.
"Most of the larger departments already
have standing committees," Dittmer said.
"If the department doesn't already have
one, one must be assembled."
Departmental and college appeals com
mittees must include student representa
tives, Dittmer said. This policy is outlined
in the bylaws of the NU Board of Regents,
he said.
Dittmer also said the number of repre
sentatives on the departmental committees
vary by department. In the English Depart
ment, for example, the grade appeals com
mittee has six members - three students
and three faculty members. In the College
of Architecture, the committee has five
members.
Appeal early
Dittmer said it is important for students
to appeal a questioned grade as early as
possible.
"The earlier a question is raised, the bet
ter chance of getting the problem resolv
ed," Dittmer said. "Sometimes, the actual
grade questioned does not arise until late in
the year. A student should then immediat
ely surface the appeal and not wait."
If the departmental committee rules in
favor of the student, the grade can be
raised or the student may be allowed to
take a reexamination or resubmit paper if
that was the grade in question, he said.
Dittmer said that if the student is still
dissatisfied after the departmental commit
tee's decision, an appeal should be made
to the committee of the college involved.
The college must then convene its appeals
committee to review the case.
According to Tom Shores, appeals chair
person of the College of Arts and Sciences,
few cases reach the college grade appeals
committee. He estimated that three or four
cases per year are reviewed at that level.
Last resort
"We can't accept a case until it goes
through all the steps preceding the college
appeals committee," Shores said. "We
sometimes must refer a student back to the
department or sometimes to the instructor
involved."
Shores said college grade appeals com
mittees are used only when all other reme
dies have been exhausted.
The College of Arts and Sciences grade
appeals committee has six members, he
said. They are: two undergraduate stu
dents, one graduate student and three fac
ulty members.
Shores said the committee may meet as
many as four times before making a deci
sion. Testimony is sometimes taken from
other students in the class, along with
statements from the professor and student.
The student and faculty member attend
only the initial committee meeting, he
added.
A student or faculty member can con
test the final decision of the college grade
appeals committee directly to the dean of
the college involved, but this is rarely done,
Shores said.
"By the time the decision is made at the
college level, the problem has usually been
resoJved," he added. "For the most part,
those involved are generally satisfied."
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Photo by Jerry McBride
Because pheasant season opened this weekend, life will be difficult for this ring
necked pheasant during the next three months.
Pheasants in danger longer
Pheasant hunters will have the chance to
hunt 15 days longer this season because
pheasant season has been extended.
Ken Johnson, chief of the Wildlife Divis
ion of the Nebraska Game and Parks Com
mission, said the change was made so the
pheasant and quail season will run con
currently. Johnson said the longer season would
not affect the pheasant population.
"The harvest won't remove so many
birds that it will influence next year's
population," Johnson said.
Johnson said the season, which started
Saturday, will run through Jan. 3 1 .
The daily limit a hunter can take is
three. The possession limit, the number of
birds a hunter may have in his possession at
one time, is nine.
Johnson said about 150,000 hunting
licenses are issued per year.
Of those, about 18,000 to 20,000 are
issued to hunters from outside of Nebra
ska. Most of the out-of-state hunters come
from neighboring states, but some come
from as far south as Texas and Oklahoma,
he said.
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