The following represent grounds for removal of a student from the school’s graduate programs:

• Failure to meet the academic requirements of the Department (including probation terms) and/or those of the Graduate School
• Continual unsafe and detrimental conduct, in spite of repeated warnings  
• The student has persisted in unsafe practices, willful insubordination or in refusing to carry out assigned duties without an acceptable reason.
• The student has made harmful threats to others in the Department or School.
• The student has persisted in using abusive language or behavior with others in the Department or School.
• The student has failed to make satisfactory progress in the program. See Academic Standing.
  
• The student has committed serious infractions of accepted practices related to research ethics, laboratory procedures, data-use, human subjects or vertebrate animals use that has compromised the integrity of research.
• The student has committed serious infractions of University regulations, including academic dishonesty.
• The student has extended unauthorized absences. 

Additional for Micro-Credentials:

• Any student receiving a failing grade “F” in any course may be subject to dismissal from the micro-credential.
• Any student who fails to maintain university graduate student status for two (2) consecutive years may be subject to dismissal from the micro-credential.
• Any student who fails to complete the final project for the micro-credential within the defined timeframe may be subject to dismissal from the micro-credential.

Removal of a student from a graduate program must be approved by a majority vote of the Graduate Education Committee.

The student is allowed to address a meeting of the Graduate Education Committee discussing their removal, with the optional presence of an advocate.

Right to Appeal

The appeal process shall follow the Academic Grievance Policy procedures as defined by the Graduate School (see Academic Grievance). Students are entitled to petition the Department faculty (through the Director of Graduate Studies or Chair of the Department) for review of any matter.

During such appeals, the student may speak on their own behalf, may submit a written statement, or may ask another person such as a faculty member or another graduate student in the Department to act as their advocate. Such an advocate should not be acting as a legal representative in these proceedings.

Subsequent written appeals may be made first to the Dean of the School and then if necessary to the Dean of the Graduate School.

Graduate students not meeting the written terms of their academic probation may be academically dismissed from the program by the director of graduate studies, chair of the department or graduate program director. Such dismissals shall be done in a timely fashion but no later than three weeks after the completion of the term. The Graduate School will be notified in writing of all such academic dismissals.

Service Indicator

Graduate students who are dismissed for academic reasons from a graduate program will have a "GRD" (Graduate School) service indicator placed on their academic record to prevent future registration.