Student Rights and Responsibilities

• Mission
• Guiding Principles
• Complaint Procedures
• Grievance Procedures

Complaint Procedures

1. Any faculty, staff or student may file a complaint in the Office of Student Affairs or with another university official for an incident that they have either personally experienced, or has been reported to them.
2. The written complaint must contain the nature of the alleged act, include a detailed statement of the events; including dates, places, names and phone numbers of witnesses or those involved in the alleged incident.
3. All complaints that name an employee of the university (including graduate assistants and other student employees) as the offender to the Office of Human Resources, which will investigate and process the complaint under a university guidelines.
4. With the exceptions noted in subsection (c) above, the student conduct procedure as outlined in the NSU Student Conduct Code will be utilized for complaints alleging student misconduct.
5. When a complaint is received the information will be reviewed to determine:
   1. that no Student Conduct Code violation exists;
   2. that further investigation is required; or
   3. that there is a potential Student Conduct Code violation.