If you are an on-ground student, it is expected that you will attend your hearing in person unless other arrangements are approved by SAC. If you are an online student, it is expected that you will attend your hearing using online meeting technology provided by TCSPP. During the COVID-19 pandemic, all SAC hearings are being conducted using online meeting technology.
If you do not attend your SAC hearing, the hearing will take place without you. Any person who is not an employee of TCSPP may not attend the hearing in any capacity except as part of an approved accessibility accommodation. Since the SAC procedure is institutional and not judicial, you may not have legal counsel present.
Your Department Chair or Associate Department Chair will present the referral during your hearing. Additional written materials may not be presented during the hearing.
Where the referral relates to training, an OPT representative may be present. Where the referral relates to lack of progress on a research project, your ARP/thesis/dissertation chair may be present. Your department and the committee may also ask other faculty members, parties associated with training, or those with knowledge of the facts of the referral to attend the hearing in person, via remote meeting technology, or to submit written material in lieu of their presence.