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Faculty of Applied Science and Engineering – re-instatement to program – Student was refused further registration due to poor academic performance – Faculty allowed the appeal in part, but did not provide reasons for its decision to not allow reinstatement – Committee noted that the Faculty should have provided written reasons for its decision, but the absence of reasons did not change the outcome of the Student’s petition – Student attended classes and completed some coursework for the courses he would have taken had he been reinstated – Student argued that the Faculty erred procedurally by not instructing him on which documentation to submit – AAB dismissed the appeal – reinstatement not appropriate given the Student’s poor assessment in the courses thus far and the timeline of the evidence submitted – divisions of the University should encourage students to support their appeals with suitable documentation, but it remains the Student’s responsibility to submit suitable documentation – Committee agreed with the AAB and concluded that its decision was reasonable – to grant a remedy that would give the Student credit for the courses would be highly unusual given that he wasn’t enrolled in them and the basis for assessing his performance in them was very thin – Faculty staff names need not be redacted, especially when the matter does not affect them in a personal capacity – appeal dismissed

Faculty of Law – course grade appeal – request to change grade on transcript from “B” to “Credit” and to be issued an apology from the Faculty – Student disputed the Faculty’s policy disallowing the appeal of interim grades – no basis for the Student to appeal the Faculty’s policy – role of the Committee is to review the application of Faculty policies, not to change the policies – appeal dismissed

School of Graduate Studies (SGS) – re-instatement to program – Faculty’s policy reasonable and applied fairly – GAAB decision reasonable and substantiated by evidence – no new evidence raised in the hearing before the Committee – appeal dismissed

School of Graduate Studies – grade appeal – jurisdiction – Student contested the policy applied to convert his grade from a University study abroad program – Student’s petition was about the fairness of the Faculty’s procedure itself, not about the fairness of the procedure’s application – Committee has no jurisdiction over the fairness of Faculty policy – appeal dismissed

School of Graduate Studies – late withdrawal without academic penalty – re-instatement in program despite failure to meet program requirements – documented personal and medical issues – appeal of some of the courses five years after the Student’s initial registration – Student’s last-minute submission of documents not accepted – students have a duty to make themselves aware of their rights and responsibilities and the policies of the programs – late withdrawal without academic penalty granted when the Student’s already-existing circumstances significantly and unpredictably worsen – the Student’s successful performance in some courses cannot be relied on to suggest that she could properly perform in all of her courses – Student not entitled to monetary relief for the Course in which she was granted late withdrawal – late withdrawal and aegrotat standing not allowed for four courses on the merits and untimeliness of the appeal – administrative errors that led to the failure of Accessibility Services to assess the Student cannot be relied upon without a temporal limit – the University cannot be expected to accommodate a condition of which it was unaware – appeal dismissed in part

Faculty of Arts and Science – late withdrawal without academic penalty – preliminary issue of timeliness – Student requesting the remedy for courses taken 20 years earlier – Student did not have adequate documentation – extraordinary remedy of late withdrawal without academic penalty must be well-supported and warranted in the circumstances – appeal dismissed