Academic Rights & Responsibilities

Cal Poly is committed to creating and maintaining an intellectual community designed to promote educational goals. In this community, students are entitled to a classroom environment where they have the academic freedom to express their ideas and opinions freely, to learn from competent and professional faculty, and to build critical thinking and reasoning skills. For a full statement of the policy regarding academic rights, see the section entitled Student Academic Rights & Responsibilities within Policies on the Rights and Responsibilities of Individuals.

The Fairness Board is the primary campus group concerned with providing "due process" in academically related matters. For a full description of the board and its procedures, see Fairness Board.