6.2.14 Student Faculty Advocate Board (F, S)
Approved (before 1980) by Academic Council
The Student Faculty Advocate Board will be composed of ten faculty members, nominated by the Professional Relations Committee and elected by the Academic Council for three year overlapping terms.
The faculty should be broadly representative of the various schools and colleges.
The chair of the Academic Council will annually appoint the chair of the Faculty Advocate Board.
The members of this board will be responsible for individually undertaking a quasi-legal advisory role in the handling of complaints entered into the Academic Grievance Procedure.
Where possible members should receive instruction in the type of quasi-legal reasoning which is required.
A Faculty Advocate will meet with the aggrieved student and the Student Advocate, advise the student in the preparation of evidence necessary to support his/her complaints, and, finally, decide jointly with the Student Advocate the adequacy of the evidence and the merits of the complaint.
He/she may also consult with the faculty member against whom the complaint is lodged to attempt to affect a resolution of the grievance.
The Faculty Advocate will have the responsibility of seeing that only complaints which are adequately supported by objective evidence of error are referred tothe Academic Grievance Board for a hearing.
He/she will have the power, jointly with the Student Advocate to dismiss any complaint for which he/she considers the evidence to be inadequate. When this occurs, he/she will submit a report of dismissal to the Chair of the Student Academic Grievance Board.
The Chair of the Academic Council annually appoints the Board Chair.