Annual Report of the School of Veterinary Medicine
1999-2000
School of Veterinary Medicine
Bylaws
Two sections of the School’s Bylaws were revised at the January 5, 2000 formal faculty meeting. These two sections (Bylaw 10 and Regulation 80) now read as follows:
Title ll. Standing Committees: Their Powers and Duties
10. Admissions. This committee shall consist of five faculty members and one non-faculty veterinary professional who shall serve as a non-voting member. The non-faculty committee member must be an active member of the profession and have served at least 1-year on the Admissions Advisory Committee. Faculty members shall serve a 2-year term and the non-faculty member shall serve a 1-year term. In the event that a non-faculty member who meets the criteria cannot be identified in any given year, the committee will proceed without appointing a non-faculty member. It shall be the duty of this committee to examine the credentials of the applicants for admission to the School and to recommend for admission those best qualified.
REGULATIONS
80. Probation, Delay of Promotion, Dismissal and Appeal (DVM).
| (A) | Academic Probation | ||
| A candidate for the degree of Doctor of Veterinary Medicine may be placed on academic probation by the Student Affairs Committee for failure to perform adequately in courses in the veterinary curriculum or for performance that is inconsistent with being a veterinarian. | |||
| (1) | Basis for academic probation | ||
| (a) | Scholastic Difficulty | ||
| A student will be considered to be in scholastic difficulty and will be placed on academic probation when any one of the following criteria are met: | |||
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(i) | quarterly grade point average less than 2.0; | |
| (ii) | grade of F in any course in the veterinary curriculum; | ||
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grade of U in any course in the veterinary curriculum. |
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| (iv) | two grades less than C- during any academic year in the veterinary curriculum. | ||
| (b) | Competence Difficulty | ||
| A student who in the judgement of one or more members of the faculty is unable to work effectively with patients or clients, or who takes inadequate responsibility for patient care, or who otherwise is deficient in patient care or client relations, or in clinical or laboratory work may be placed on academic probation via the following procedures. | |||
| (i) | The Instructor(s) of Record apprises the Associate Dean for Student Programs in writing of the student's name and the circumstances judged to represent a deficiency in the student's academic performance, and/or the Associate Dean for Student Programs receives from any source information that raises substantial questions about the academic performance of a student in classroom/laboratory work, patient care or client relations that is inconsistent with being a veterinarian; and | ||
| (ii) | The Associate Dean for Student Programs refers the matter to the Student Affairs Committee for review and appropriate action; and | ||
| (iii) | The Student Affairs Committee may recommend that the student be placed on academic probation and prescribe appropriate remediation to be achieved within a specified period of time. The Committee may, in the case of serious competency difficulty, recommend dismissal. | ||
(2) Remediation of Academic Probation
| (a) | Remediation of scholastic difficulty | |
| Remediation of scholastic difficulty will be accomplished only when all of the following four criteria are met: | ||
| (i) | all grades of F have been replaced by grades better than F; | |
| (ii) | all grades of U have been replaced by grades of S; | |
| (iii) | no more than one grade less than C- is earned during any academic year; | |
| (iv) | yearly and cumulative grade point average is greater than or equal to 2.0. | |
| (b) | With approval of the course instructor, a student may repeat per academic year one course with a grade of D, F or U by means of Credit by Examination. The student may attempt Credit by Examination only once for an affected course. | |
| (i) | A consenting course instructor(s) will arrange one Credit by Examination that must be offered and graded prior to the beginning of Fall quarter of the following academic year. | |
| (ii) | The original course grade is final and retained in the student's transcript, but is no longer used in the computation of grade point average. The new grade earned by taking the Credit by Examination will be entered in the transcript as "course repeated" and used to compute the student's grade point average. | |
| (c) | Remediation of Competence Difficulty | |
| (i) | When deemed possible, competence difficulty shall be remediated by satisfactory completion of the steps prescribed by the Student Affairs Committee. | |
(B) Basis for Delay of Promotion
(1) A student who is not able to resolve academic probation by the beginning of the fall quarter of the academic year following the year in which the student was placed on academic probation will be subject to one of three courses of action
(a) Repeat of one course in which the grade of D, F or U was received.
(i) A student may be allowed to repeat a course in which they have received a D, F or U grade, if they meet all of the following criteria:
(aa) that student has only one F or U grade in the academic year just completed(bb) that student received no more than 2 grades below C- in the academic year just completed
(cc) that student has a cumulative GPA, greater than or equal to 2.7;
(dd) that student is not in competence difficulty.
(ii) A student repeating a course will not be promoted to the next year in the veterinary curriculum and cannot simultaneously register for courses administered to students in more advanced classes in the veterinary curriculum until the repeated course is satisfactorily completed.
(b) Repeat all courses of an affected year.
(i) A student on academic probation at the beginning of Fall Quarter who does not meet all of the criteria listed in 80(B)(1)(a)(i)(aa-dd), and is not subject to dismissal, will be expected to repeat all classes of the affected year. That student will not be promoted to the next year in the veterinary curriculum and cannot simultaneously register for courses administered to more advanced classes in the veterinary curriculum until all repeated courses have been satisfactorily repeated with grades of C- or better or S, and the student is not otherwise subject to continued probation or dismissal pursuant to Bylaw 80.
(c) Dismissal
(C) Basis for Dismissal from the School of Veterinary Medicine
A student who meets any one of the following criteria may be dismissed from the School of Veterinary Medicine.
(1) Receiving grades of F and/or U for two courses during any one academic year in the veterinary curriculum.
(2) Serious competence difficulty.
(3) During repeat of a full year or course (other than by Credit by Examination) in the veterinary curriculum because of previous scholastic difficulty, the student meets any of the Scholastic Difficulty criteria in 80(A)(1)(a).
(4) Failure to remediate academic probation within a 2-year period from start of the first Fall Quarter that the student was on academic probation.
(5) Remediation has not been satisfactorily attained for all competence difficulty problems within the designated time, as specified by the Student Affairs Committee.
(D) Procedure for Appeal
(1) Any student who has been dismissed from the School of Veterinary Medicine, or who has been denied registration for one or more terms, or who has been denied promotion or graduation may appeal in writing to the Dean of the School of Veterinary Medicine. Thereupon, the Dean shall request the Executive Committee of the Faculty to appoint an ad hoc board consisting of five faculty members and two non-voting students to review the appeal. Pending outcome of the appeal, the Dean shall have the authority to extend the registration of a student who has appealed dismissal. The report of the ad hoc board shall be reviewed by the Executive Committee to ensure that the report and recommendations are consistent with the Bylaws and Regulations of the Faculty before it is forwarded to the Dean. The Dean shall be responsible for the final disposition of the appeal.
| Respectfully submitted, | |
| Susan Stover, Chair | |
| Faculty of the School of | |
| Veterinary Medicine, 1999-2000 |