Concerns Commonly Addressed by the Ombuds Office

Student concerns:

• Grade concerns
• Learning experience
• Academic misconduct
• Academic procedures
• Financial aid and student accounts
• Mistreatment in the learning environment
• Discrimination
• Harassment
• Fear of retaliation

Staff concerns:

• Benefits
• Compensation
• Work assignment
• Promotion and demotion  
• Performance evaluation
• Job reclassification
• Conflict with colleagues and supervisors
• Hostile workplace
• Management practices
• Fear of retaliation
• Discrimination
• Harassment

Faculty concerns:

• Compensation
• Course assignment
• Departmental policies and procedures
• Conflict with students, colleagues, and administrators
• Hostile workplace
• Management practices
• Fear of retaliation
• Discrimination
• Harassment