{"id":102,"date":"2023-03-23T08:30:02","date_gmt":"2023-03-23T13:30:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/uwm.edu\/graduateschool\/?page_id=102"},"modified":"2026-03-19T12:08:39","modified_gmt":"2026-03-19T17:08:39","slug":"appealing-academic-decisions","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/uwm.edu\/graduateschool\/students\/academic-policies-and-procedures\/appeals-and-exceptions\/appealing-academic-decisions\/","title":{"rendered":"Appealing Academic Decisions"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"h-contact-information\">Contact Information:<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"mailto:gs-appeals@uwm.edu\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" target=\"_blank\">gs-appeals@uwm.edu<\/a><br>Mitchell Hall 247<br>Office of the Dean of the Graduate School<br>3203 N Downer Ave.<br>Milwaukee, WI. 53211<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Federal law and 51ÁÔÆæ policy require programs and departments to have procedures for graduate students to appeal academic decisions such as grades or scholastic standing. These procedures ensure the protection of students\u2019 rights. This page serves as a reference on procedures for graduate student academic appeals.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Although individual programs and departments must comply with the fundamental aspects of the three-step procedure described below, the composition and formality of their committees may differ. In all cases, the final authority of graduate student appeals is the Dean of the Graduate School.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This procedure <strong>does not apply<\/strong> to the following:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><strong>Academic misconduct.<\/strong> Those policies and procedures are on the <a href=\"https:\/\/uwm.edu\/deanofstudents\/conduct\/academic-misconduct\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Dean of Students Website<\/a>. Information related to <a href=\"https:\/\/uwm.edu\/graduateschool\/students\/academic-policies-and-procedures\/academic-misconduct\/\">graduate academic misconduct<\/a> and relevant appeals can also be requested from <a href=\"mailto:gs-appeals@uwm.edu\">gs-appeals@uwm.edu<\/a>.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Protected-class discrimination or sexual harassment.<\/strong> Such grievances follow the <a href=\"https:\/\/uwm.edu\/policy\/library\/discriminatory-conduct-and-consensual-relationships\/\">51ÁÔÆæ Discriminatory Conduct Policy<\/a> and are filed with the <a href=\"https:\/\/uwm.edu\/community-empowerment-institutional-inclusivity\/services\/equal-opportunity-civil-rights\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Division of Community Empowerment &amp; Institutional Inclusivity<\/a>.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Undergraduate academic appeals.<\/strong> Questions regarding appeal procedures for undergraduate students should be addressed to the Office of Student Life or to the School\/College Dean\u2019s office.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"h-background-information\">Background Information<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>Current Graduate School appeal procedures are described on our <a href=\"https:\/\/uwm.edu\/graduateschool\/students\/academic-policies-and-procedures\/appeals-and-exceptions\/graduate-school-academic-appeals-procedure\/\">Academic Appeals Procedure<\/a> page. Specific unit procedures appear in department and program handbooks.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Students who decide to appeal an academic decision before an appeals committee may be accompanied by any person they choose, including an attorney. That person may counsel a student, but may not otherwise participate in the appeals committee\u2019s proceedings. Students are expected to speak for themselves at their appeal hearing. During a hearing, students should address all questions for the committee to the chair. The chair, after consultation with the committee members, shall determine if it is appropriate to respond to the question.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Appeal procedures should not be taken lightly nor ignored. Questions concerning graduate student appeal procedures should be directed to <a href=\"mailto:gs-appeals@uwm.edu\">gs-appeals@uwm.edu<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Contact Information: gs-appeals@uwm.eduMitchell Hall 247Office of the Dean of the Graduate School3203 N Downer Ave.Milwaukee, WI. 53211 Federal law and 51ÁÔÆæ policy require programs and departments to have procedures for graduate students to appeal academic decisions such as grades or &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":29,"featured_media":0,"parent":109,"menu_order":76,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":"","uwm_wg_additional_authors":[]},"class_list":["post-102","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v27.3 (Yoast SEO v27.3) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Graduate School<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/uwm.edu\/graduateschool\/students\/academic-policies-and-procedures\/appeals-and-exceptions\/appealing-academic-decisions\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Appealing Academic Decisions\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Contact Information: gs-appeals@uwm.eduMitchell Hall 247Office of the Dean of the Graduate School3203 N Downer Ave.Milwaukee, WI. 53211 Federal law and 51ÁÔÆæ policy require programs and departments to have procedures for graduate students to appeal academic decisions such as grades or &hellip;\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/uwm.edu\/graduateschool\/students\/academic-policies-and-procedures\/appeals-and-exceptions\/appealing-academic-decisions\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Graduate School\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2026-03-19T17:08:39+00:00\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"2 minutes\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\\\/\\\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/uwm.edu\\\/graduateschool\\\/students\\\/academic-policies-and-procedures\\\/appeals-and-exceptions\\\/appealing-academic-decisions\\\/\",\"url\":\"https:\\\/\\\/uwm.edu\\\/graduateschool\\\/students\\\/academic-policies-and-procedures\\\/appeals-and-exceptions\\\/appealing-academic-decisions\\\/\",\"name\":\"Appealing Academic Decisions - 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