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STATEMENT OF NONDISCRIMINATION

Washington University School of Law is committed to a policy of nondiscrimination. Faculty are prohibited from discriminating against students on grounds of race, color, religion, national origin, sex, handicap or disability, age, or sexual orientation. (See Faculty Rule (K) 1).)

Washington University School of Law is also committed to a policy of equal employment opportunity for all students and graduates. Career Services facilities are not made available to employers who discriminate on grounds of race, color, religion, national origin, sex, handicap or disability, age, or sexual orientation. Employers are not permitted to use the school’s Career Services facilities unless they submit a signed statement certifying that they conform to this policy. (See Faculty Rule (K) 3).)

NOTE: The Department of Defense was recently exempted from this policy. The exemption occurred because of a change in Congressional policy, which meant that the law school’s continued refusal to allow military recruiters access to its Career Services Office would affect the University as a whole, putting into jeopardy federal grants that other schools relied on for funding.

Washington University encourages and gives full consideration to all applicants for admission and financial aid, without regard to race, color, age, religion, sex, sexual orientation, national origin, veteran status, or handicap. Present Department of Defense policy governing ROTC and AFROTC programs discriminates on the basis of sexual orientation; such discrimination is inconsistent with Washington University policy.

STATEMENT OF FACULTY/STUDENT RELATIONS

The faculty believes it important that faculty members be accessible to students, and it strives to maintain an environment in which faculty/student interchange is meaningful, in which all students are treated with respect and perceive such respect, and in which students feel comfortable approaching faculty members when problems arise. The faculty strongly encourages each student to speak directly and constructively with any faculty member who in the student's opinion has acted improperly. The faculty appreciates, however, that some students will feel hesitant to do so. A student who would prefer to voice a complaint in another way thus has a range of options, including the following. The student might ask another student or other person to accompany him or her to the faculty member's office, or might send the faculty member an email or note. The student might also approach the Associate Dean for Academic Affairs, Associate Dean of Faculty, Associate Dean for Student Affairs, or the Faculty Ombudsperson. Each of those officials will be willing to counsel the student or act as a liaison to the faculty member in question, as the student wishes. A student may also confide his or her problem to anyone else on the faculty, administration, or Student Bar Association with whom the student feels comfortable, and any of those persons may be willing to act as a liaison as well. (See also Faculty Rule (K)(2) )

FACULTY RULES
(Codification approved in December 1977, as amended through Spring, 2004)

NOTE: The Faculty Rules are amended from time to time during the school year. This online version was last updated 11/23/04.

TABLE OF CONTENTS

The Faculty Rules have been divided into three separate web pages,
the Table of Contents, Part I - A to C, and Part II - D to END.

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