School of Health Sciences Dismissal/Readmittance Policy

PURPOSE  

Students enrolled in programs in the School of Health Sciences are expected to exemplify professional behavior at all times. The professional attributes minimally include attentiveness, maturity, cooperation, responsibility, professional personal appearance, communication, judgment, ethics, honesty, morality and respect for authority, peers, patients, and other members of the healthcare team.

POLICY

Students dismissed from any School of Health Sciences program for behavioral/disciplinary reason(s) will not be eligible to re-apply to that program or any program within the school for a period of one academic year.

PROCEDURE

  1. The Program Director must notify the Dean within one week of any student dismissal for behavioral/disciplinary reasons.

  2. If a remediation plan was developed at the time of dismissal, the student must have met and completed all requirements within the remediation plan in order to be eligible to apply to any program within the School of Health Sciences.

  3. If the student was denied access to a clinical site while enrolled in any program within the School of Health Sciences, this may prevent admittance into a program indefinitely as clinical sites and therefore clinical space for student experiences are limited.

  4. If a student re-applies to the program in which he/she was dismissed, or applies to another program within the School of Health Sciences and is in the grievance process, he/she must be considered for acceptance. If the student qualifies for acceptance, he/she will be accepted contingent upon the outcome of the grievance procedure. If the dismissal is upheld by the grievance committee, the student will not be able to progress in the program and will not be eligible to apply to any program in the School of Health Sciences for a period of one academic year. If the student is contingently accepted into a program and is in the midst of a grievance procedure, the grievance procedure must be resolved no later than two weeks prior to the start of the program to be eligible to start the program.