Academic Issues

The Academic Standing and Policies Committee is a standing committee of the Faculty Board responsible for dealing with issues of academic standing and problems with academic work. The Committee is comprised of two faculty members, one of whom acts as Chair, the Assistant Dean of Students, Jane Emrich, and the Manager of Education and Equity Services, Helen Connop, who acts as a non-voting member and Administrator to the Committee. Ms. Connop presents applications from students to the Committee for consideration and issues the written decisions of the Committee. Decisions on applications to the Committee can be picked up from the reception desk of the Student Services Office in Room 200, Macdonald Hall. The jurisdiction and composition of the Committee is stated in the Academic Calendar.

Typically, the Academic Standing and Policies Committee deals with the following sorts of issues (with links provided to the relevant policies in the Academic Calendar):

• Requests for special examination privileges where performance on an exam was affected adversely by documented medical or compassionate grounds.
• Requests for supplemental examination privileges for a course in which the student has failed the course.
• Requests for language-based examination accommodations.
• Requests for extensions for the late submission of coursework such as papers.
• Requests for late add or late drop of courses after the designated period has expired.
• Requests to change status from part-time to full-time or from full-time to part-time.
• Requests to take a course overload in a term (see Upper Year Credit Requirement).
• Requests for approval of an international study abroad program on a letter of permission when transfer credits are sought to the Queen’s J.D. degree.

To make a request please use the application form to the Academic Standing and Policies Committee. Applicants can request that the student members of the Committee participate in the hearing of the matter or that the matter be heard without the student members present.

Appeals regarding decisions of the Academic Standing and Policies Committee are made to the Faculty Board. The appeal policy is published in the Academic Calendar.