Campus Discipline & Conduct
A conduct case starts with a letter and a short deadline. What follows is not a trial. The standard of proof is usually more-likely-than-not, the panel is made up of people the school selected, and in most codes your advisor may sit beside you but may not speak.
These posts cover what the process actually requires, what a hearing looks like from the inside, how sanctions get decided, and which parts of a conduct record follow a student afterwards.
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Your School May Be Getting Legal Advice Before It Emails You
When students face dismissal, discipline, or an accommodation dispute, they focus on explaining what happened. The school may already be thinking about legal risk.
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When Schools Bet on Silence: Delay, Isolation, and Time
Schools often “win” disputes not because their position is stronger, but because the process is exhausting.
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Document Everything: How to Build Your Student Defense Record
In a dispute with your university, the outcome often turns on one thing: the record. How to build yours.
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Record Expungement & Transcript Notation Removal
A dismissal, a disciplinary finding, or a transcript notation keeps doing damage long after the…
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Unequal Discipline
Everyone knows someone who did the same thing and got less. Turning that into a claim means finding a comparator the law recognizes — which is narrower than it sounds.
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Parenting Students
Pregnancy is strongly protected. Parenting afterwards is not protected the same way, and knowing where the line falls decides which argument you make.
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Religious Accommodations
Most religious accommodation disputes are scheduling disputes that were raised too late. Ask in week one and it is administration; ask the week before and it is a favour.
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Domestic Violence Allegations
A campus domestic violence allegation rarely travels alone. The conduct case, the criminal case and the injunction move on different clocks, and what you say in one is used in the others.
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Dating Violence Allegations
Dating violence has a legal definition with a threshold question inside it: was this a social relationship of a romantic or intimate nature? That question is litigable.
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Remote Proctoring Flags
A proctoring report records anomalies. It does not observe cheating. The distinction is the whole defense, and most students concede it in the first email.