Decision Letter
Appeal Number: 3576
Decision Date: July 10, 2017
Associate Dean: Johanne Benard, Ph.D.
Student Name: Noah Levine
Student Email: 15njl1@queensu.ca
Course: MUSC-104
Term: Winter
Year: 2017
Category: Request credit (CR) standing in a course or courses
Instructor: Thomas Maxwell Davidson
Course: MATH-111B
Term: Fall/Winter
Year: 2016
Category: Request credit (CR) standing in a course or courses
Instructor: Peter Taylor
Course: CISC 101
Term: Fall
Year: 2016
Category: Drop a course after the academic deadline
Course: CISC 121
Term: Winter
Year: 2017
Category: Drop a course after the academic deadline
Course: MATH 121
Term: Fall/Winter
Year: 2017
Category: Drop a course after the academic deadline
Dear Mr. Levine:
I have carefully considered your appeal to drop CISC 101 (F 2016), MATH 121 (FW 2016/17) and CISC 121 (W 2017) and receive Credit standing in MATH 111 (FW 2016/17) and MUSC 104 (W 2017). After reviewing your file, I have decided to deny your request.
Note that your request to waive the requirement to withdraw for one year was not heard as your grade change in CISC 102 changed your academic status to academic probation. You are permitted to return to studies in September but you will remain on academic probation. Please see the document to follow this letter to learn more about your current standing.
As you know, courses must be dropped on SOLUS within the published deadlines. The Academic Regulations (Appeal of Academic Decisions, IIIb) stress that exceptions to this will only be waived under exceptional circumstances. The integrity of Arts and Science transcripts in general would be greatly diminished if the Faculty were to effect changes to students€™ records without clear and compelling documentation indicating that the student€™s performance was significantly compromised by extenuating circumstances beyond his or her control.
The deadlines for dropping courses have been designed and established in order to provide sufficient time for students to determine their interest in the course material, to consider their ability to handle each course, and to evaluate their overall workload.
Extenuating circumstances normally involve a significant physical or psychological event that is beyond your control and debilitating to your overall academic performance. Additionally, these kinds of extraordinary situations are normally supported by documentation from a professional.
Your appeal letter explains that your poor academic performance is the result of your test anxiety and not being properly accommodated by Accessibility Services as well as not receiving the accommodations you were approved for. However, there is no evidence from the documentation you supplied that you were not properly accommodated. Your Letter of Accommodation states that you were to have one exam per calendar day, with an extra 15 minutes per 1 hour exam, writing in bond (a small classroom of up to 30 students maximum). The Exams Office confirmed that your exams were scheduled as follows:
Fall Term: December 12, 13, 14, 15 and 16
You failed to attend your exams on December 12 and 13 (MATH 111 and 121)
You cancelled your remaining exams on December 14 (HEBR 190, CISC 101 and CISC 102)
Winter term: April 13, 17, 24, 26 and 27
You cancelled your exams on April 13 (MATH 121), April 17 (MATH 111), April 26 (CISC 121) and wrote your exams in CISC 102 and MUSC 104.
Without any confirmation from Accessibility Services to demonstrate that the accommodations you were approved to receive were not sufficient, I unfortunately cannot grant your appeal.
If you wish to appeal the Associate Dean€™s decision to the Board of Studies, you must submit an appeal to the Board of Studies within 21 days of the date this decision was sent. Guidelines for appealing to the Board of Studies and the appeal form can be found at: http://www.queensu.ca/artsci/students-at-queens/academic-appeals (click on €œBoard of Studies€) Do not use the on-line application for this process. You may contact Mr. Harry Smith, Office of the Ombudsman for advice on matters of procedure and on obtaining a representative. His office is located in room 421 Robert Sutherland Hall and he can be reached by phone (533-6495) or e-mail (ombuds@queensu.ca).
Sincerely,
Johanne Bénard, Ph.D.
Associate Dean (Studies)
20020445Levine
Decision Date: July 10, 2017
Associate Dean: Johanne Benard, Ph.D.
Student Name: Noah Levine
Student Email: 15njl1@queensu.ca
Course: MUSC-104
Term: Winter
Year: 2017
Category: Request credit (CR) standing in a course or courses
Instructor: Thomas Maxwell Davidson
Course: MATH-111B
Term: Fall/Winter
Year: 2016
Category: Request credit (CR) standing in a course or courses
Instructor: Peter Taylor
Course: CISC 101
Term: Fall
Year: 2016
Category: Drop a course after the academic deadline
Course: CISC 121
Term: Winter
Year: 2017
Category: Drop a course after the academic deadline
Course: MATH 121
Term: Fall/Winter
Year: 2017
Category: Drop a course after the academic deadline
Dear Mr. Levine:
I have carefully considered your appeal to drop CISC 101 (F 2016), MATH 121 (FW 2016/17) and CISC 121 (W 2017) and receive Credit standing in MATH 111 (FW 2016/17) and MUSC 104 (W 2017). After reviewing your file, I have decided to deny your request.
Note that your request to waive the requirement to withdraw for one year was not heard as your grade change in CISC 102 changed your academic status to academic probation. You are permitted to return to studies in September but you will remain on academic probation. Please see the document to follow this letter to learn more about your current standing.
As you know, courses must be dropped on SOLUS within the published deadlines. The Academic Regulations (Appeal of Academic Decisions, IIIb) stress that exceptions to this will only be waived under exceptional circumstances. The integrity of Arts and Science transcripts in general would be greatly diminished if the Faculty were to effect changes to students€™ records without clear and compelling documentation indicating that the student€™s performance was significantly compromised by extenuating circumstances beyond his or her control.
The deadlines for dropping courses have been designed and established in order to provide sufficient time for students to determine their interest in the course material, to consider their ability to handle each course, and to evaluate their overall workload.
Extenuating circumstances normally involve a significant physical or psychological event that is beyond your control and debilitating to your overall academic performance. Additionally, these kinds of extraordinary situations are normally supported by documentation from a professional.
Your appeal letter explains that your poor academic performance is the result of your test anxiety and not being properly accommodated by Accessibility Services as well as not receiving the accommodations you were approved for. However, there is no evidence from the documentation you supplied that you were not properly accommodated. Your Letter of Accommodation states that you were to have one exam per calendar day, with an extra 15 minutes per 1 hour exam, writing in bond (a small classroom of up to 30 students maximum). The Exams Office confirmed that your exams were scheduled as follows:
Fall Term: December 12, 13, 14, 15 and 16
You failed to attend your exams on December 12 and 13 (MATH 111 and 121)
You cancelled your remaining exams on December 14 (HEBR 190, CISC 101 and CISC 102)
Winter term: April 13, 17, 24, 26 and 27
You cancelled your exams on April 13 (MATH 121), April 17 (MATH 111), April 26 (CISC 121) and wrote your exams in CISC 102 and MUSC 104.
Without any confirmation from Accessibility Services to demonstrate that the accommodations you were approved to receive were not sufficient, I unfortunately cannot grant your appeal.
If you wish to appeal the Associate Dean€™s decision to the Board of Studies, you must submit an appeal to the Board of Studies within 21 days of the date this decision was sent. Guidelines for appealing to the Board of Studies and the appeal form can be found at: http://www.queensu.ca/artsci/students-at-queens/academic-appeals (click on €œBoard of Studies€) Do not use the on-line application for this process. You may contact Mr. Harry Smith, Office of the Ombudsman for advice on matters of procedure and on obtaining a representative. His office is located in room 421 Robert Sutherland Hall and he can be reached by phone (533-6495) or e-mail (ombuds@queensu.ca).
Sincerely,
Johanne Bénard, Ph.D.
Associate Dean (Studies)
20020445Levine
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