UC Riverside Academic Senate

6.5.5.1 Criteria for Appeals

Appeals must be based on one or more of the following:

• New evidence not reasonably available at the time of the original hearing, the absence of which can be shown to have had a detrimental impact on the outcome of the hearing
• Procedural error that can be shown to have had a detrimental impact on the outcome of the hearing
• Errors in the interpretation of University policy so substantial as to deny one of the parties a fair hearing
• Grossly inappropriate sanction having no reasonable relationship to the charges