Student Rights and Responsibilities Table of Contents
Expulsion and Barring of OLC Students
In the expulsion and barring of students from Oglala Lakota College, the Board of Trustees acknowledges that all students are entitled to due process in the expulsion and barring of OLC students.
The following procedures shall be followed in the barring or expulsion of students:
1. The Local College Center Boards have the authority to bar or expel students from their particular college center for student misconduct.
2. In the expulsion of a student for student misconduct from all of the college centers and OLC programs, the Board of Trustees solely has this authority.
3. Prior to barring or an expulsion of a student, the appropriate board will grant the student a hearing on the barring or expulsion with prior notice provided to the student with the date of the hearing and the grounds for barring or expelling the student in the notice.
4. Notice shall reference the grounds for student misconduct, the facts alleged to constitute the violation, and notice of access to all statements of person relating to the charge and to those parts of the student’s record which will be considered in rendering a decision on the barring or expulsion of a student.
5. On an action to bar or expel a student, OLC will provide the student with notice within 7 working days prior to the hearing set to bar or expel the student.
6. The student will be accorded a fair and impartial hearing on the barring or expulsion of a student.
7. In an emergency situation that will protect the safety of other students, community members, OLC staff, and instructors, the President can temporarily suspend a student until the hearing for barring or expelling the student is held.
8. The student has the right to have present at the hearing the student’s parent(s) or legal guardian(s) and to be represented by lay or legal counsel of the student’s choice. Private attorney fees are to be borne by the student.
9. The student has the right to produce witnesses on the student’s behalf and to confront and cross-examine witnesses.
10. The student has a right to a record of the hearing for barring or expulsion, including written findings of fact and conclusion.
11. The student has a right of administrative review and appeal of a Local College Center Board action to bar or expel a student from a college center before the Board of Trustees.
12. The student has a right to have allegations of misconduct and information pertaining thereto expunged from the student’s school record in the event the appropriate board finds no grounds for barring or expelling the student.