Hello! I have been recently dismissed from my program, and I am escalating my dismissal to the Dean. According to my program, I’m dismissed because of two factors: 1) incomplete comprehensive head to toe assessment, and 2) failed exam avg in medsurg by 1.75. I passed the class 80.2 and the HESI with a 950 but my exam average tanked. No extra credit accepted unless I pass both exams and class averages.
Anyway, while drafting my appeal to the dean, I wanted to focus on procedural inadequacies concerning my health assessment grades…maybe.
Here’s the timeline:
Before 9/10: schedule for head to toe assessment given 9/10 at 1600: emailed faculty of record and cc’d co-faculty that I am missing attempt due to illness. FOR replied to coordinate with co-faculty; co-faculty did not reply. Based on syllabus and FOR, makeup scheduled 9/25. 9/23: FOR resigned. Due to urgency and no communication from then co-faculty, I texted. No response, he said it went to his spam. 9/25: day of attempt per syllabus. At 0840, my advisor emailed me asking if i’m ready. Two calls from front office with no voicemails given. Did not see these until late at 1600. 9/25, 1600: notification from now FOR that I failed the class.
I know and understand that I should have communicated more. This is probably a futile defense, but in previous classes, when remediations are necessary, FORs reached out to schedule a date. I plan to use screenshots of this email as exhibits. Additionally, the syllabus wording that a second attempt will be assigned objectively implies a faculty-directed effort. Could I have communicated more, showed up to the office, and spam my advisor and my FOR with emails? In hindsight yes. Additionally, after failing me, the FOR said that communication and scheduling a remediation solely rests on me as my responsibility, but that’s not the wording of the syllabus, and there were no communications prior that assigns me these tasks. But based on these details I stated here, do I have a leg to stand on? Am I just being overly pedantic and/or dense and just yelling into the void hoping something sticks? Please help!