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The disciplinary action of the Student Conduct Board may be appealed. An appeal shall be addressed to the Vice President for Student Development. The Vice President for Student Development will convene an Appeals Committee of not less than three employees to make a recommendation regarding the appeal. Any decision shall be considered final and binding.
The request for appeal must be submitted in writing to the Office of Student Development within three (3) business days of the written decision of the Student Conduct Board and may be delivered to the Office of Student Development during normal business hours (8 a.m. - 5 p.m.) or emailed to the Vice President of Student Development. The student or recognized student organization appealing the decision must state the grounds upon which the appeal is based. All student conduct appeals are heard based on the original record made before the Student Conduct Board and are not a re-hearing of the case.
Pending the outcome of an appeal, the sanction(s) specified in the original decision may not be imposed. An interim suspension may be imposed or continued if it is determined that the continued presence of a student or recognized student organization poses a threat to the health, safety, or welfare of members of the YHC community or the preservation of YHC property, or poses an ongoing threat to the disruption of, or interference with, the normal operations of the College.
The following reasons are the only valid grounds for an appeal:
- To determine whether a procedural error occurred that materially influenced the hearing panel’s decision.
- To determine whether the sanction imposed was appropriate for the violation of which the student or recognized student organization was found responsible.
- To consider new information sufficient to alter a decision or other relevant facts not brought out in the original hearing because such information and/or facts were not known to the student or recognized student organization at the time of the original hearing, nor could have reasonably been obtained by the student or recognized student organization.
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