Policies

UGA seeks to promote and ensure academic honesty and personal integrity among students and the university community. Academic honesty is vital to the very fabric and integrity of the university.

A Culture of Honesty is the academic honesty policy and procedures at UGA. These procedures are designed to protect academic integrity while providing due process when suspected violations of the academic honesty policy occur.

To see the UGA policy, go to:

https://honesty.uga.edu/academic-honesty-policy/

Grade appeals must originate with the instructor who assigned the grade. If the instructor will not change the grade, an appeal should be made to the head of the department in which the course was taken. If the matter is not resolved to the student’s satisfaction at that level, the petition should then be directed to the Associate Dean of SPIA.

All grade appeals must be submitted within one calendar year from the end of the term in which the grade was recorded.

Ordinarily, grades are assigned solely at the discretion of the instructor. A primary criterion for a successful grade appeal is the demonstration either that the grade was the result of factual error or that it was influenced by improper or unprofessional bias on the part of the instructor.

To see the UGA policy, go to: https://honesty.uga.edu/student-appeals/grade-appeals/

UGA’s policy can be found here:

https://eoo.uga.edu/laws-policies-and-regulations/civil-rights-and-ndah/non-discrimination-and-anti-harassment-policy/

UGA’s policy can be found here:

https://eoo.uga.edu/laws-policies-and-regulations/title-ix-and-sexual-misconduct/sexual-misconduct-policy/