Dean's Discipline

The newly created committee to evaluate the Dean's Discipline Process should call for the hiring of advocates for students facing disciplinary action. Without advocates, students can easily get lost in the cryptic complexities of Dean’s Discipline.

Columbia's disciplinary procedures have been long criticized as arbitrary, opaque, and unjust. Dean's Discipline—the procedure by which Columbia tries students who are accused of violating most University policies—is long overdue for an overhaul, and should be replaced with a new system that respects students' rights.