Ivy Tech Community College Misconduct Charges

Valuing an Ivy Tech Community College Education

Ivy Tech Community College serving the state of Indiana, proudly boasts that it is the nation's largest singly accredited community college. No doubt, Ivy Tech does wonders educating Indiana's workforce. A flexible, practical, and affordable Ivy Tech education can also open doors for graduates to valuable careers. Ivy Tech, for instance, graduates more associate-level nurses than any other school in the country. With seventy-five programs spread across forty-four Indiana locations serving nearly 150,000 students, Ivy Tech is not only a large and impactful institution but also a sophisticated institution maintaining Higher Learning Commission accreditation. When you enrolled at Ivy Tech, you had a sense of the value an Ivy Tech education offered you. Don't lose sight of that value in whatever challenges your Ivy Tech education is presenting you. Education must challenge students to reward them. Community college is no exception, presenting its own challenges to students. Instead, get the professional advisor help you need to avoid college dismissal, meet your educational goals, and enjoy your education's rewards.

Student Discipline at Ivy Tech Community College

Ivy Tech Community College guarantees its students many important rights. They have the right to access their education with reasonable accommodation of their disabilities, freely express themselves, freely associate with others of their choosing, and pursue their education free from harassment and discrimination. Yet, for every right, Ivy Tech also imposes student responsibilities. Those responsibilities include following all school conduct codes, obeying all school policies and procedures, respecting others, using school property and equipment properly, and upholding academic and professional integrity. Failing in those responsibilities can lead Ivy Tech officials to institute disciplinary procedures against you. If school disciplinary officials find you violated your school responsibilities, Ivy Tech may impose school sanctions against you. If you do not handle disciplinary charges wisely, you could lose everything you've invested in your Ivy Tech education, including your hopes and dreams of an education, job, and career.

Addressing Student Discipline at Ivy Tech Community College

Retain national school discipline defense advisor Joseph D. Lento and the Lento Law Firm's Student Defense Team to help you defend and defeat Ivy Tech Community College misconduct charges. What you do when facing disciplinary charges can make all the difference in your outcome. Disciplinary charges do not necessarily mean that you have done something wrong or if you have done something wrong, that Ivy Tech officials desire your dismissal. Above all, school disciplinary officials need and expect you to respond appropriately to the charges. A disciplinary charge is a wake-up call requiring that you justify to school officials your status with the school and your behavior. That's why Ivy Tech Community College provides you with elaborate disciplinary procedures, so that you and your retained school discipline defense advisor can get your exonerating and mitigating evidence in front of school officials for their consideration. School discipline defense advisor Joseph D. Lento is available at Ivy Tech Community College in Indiana to help you do so. Address student disciplinary charges. Don't ignore the charges.

Ivy Tech Community College's Authorization

The Indiana General Assembly, in its Indiana Code 21-22-2-2, established Ivy Tech Community College of Indiana as a statewide provider of two-year community college education. Other code sections authorize Indiana's governor to appoint Ivy Tech's board of trustees, supported by an administration under a single system-wide chancellor. Under Indiana Code 21-22-6-1, Ivy Tech's statewide board of trustees establishes local campuses and programs considering “factors such as population, potential enrollment, tax bases, and driving distances….” The statutory intent, though, is for the statewide trustees to “develop an overall state plan that provides for all parts of Indiana being a coordinated system providing a comprehensive program of post-high school general, liberal arts, occupational, and technical education.” Once Ivy Tech's statewide board of trustees establishes a local Ivy Tech campus, Indiana Code 21-22-6-2 empowers the local campus's own local board of trustees to implement campus policies. Thus, if you face disciplinary challenges at Ivy Tech Community College, the system's statewide policies and procedures may influence the overall course of your matter while local personnel interpret and implement statewide policies and procedures.

Ivy Tech Community College Student Governance

Consistent with the General Assembly's intent for a coordinated statewide community college system, Ivy Tech Community College's statewide board of trustees provides a single system-wide Code of Student Rights and Responsibilities for all Ivy Tech campuses and locations. No matter which Ivy Tech campus you attend, your campus's officials should be looking first to that statewide Code of Student Rights and Responsibilities. Ivy Tech's Code of Student Rights and Responsibilities addresses academic issues, personal misconduct or behavioral issues, and the disciplinary procedures determining charges relating to those issues. Ivy Tech maintains a separate Student Equal Opportunity, Harassment, and Nondiscrimination Policy and Procedures addressing Title IX and other sexual misconduct allegations. Ivy Tech students must also meet the school's satisfactory academic progress (SAP) requirements to remain in good standing and receive financial aid. Ivy Tech students statewide also follow a single Student Handbook setting forth additional academic expectations. Ivy Tech Community College thus provides a comprehensive set of statewide policies addressing traditional forms of misconduct and failure to progress academically. If you face misconduct, academic progress, or related charges threatening your Ivy Tech dismissal, retain national school discipline defense advisor Joseph D. Lento to help you defend and defeat those charges.

Ivy Tech Community College Academic Misconduct

Ivy Tech Community College's Code of Student Rights and Responsibilities first sets forth the school's academic expectations in combination with its professional expectations. Violating those expectations can lead to serious discipline up to school suspension or expulsion. Take academic and professional misconduct charges seriously. Ivy Tech identifies these forms of academic and professional misconduct subject to sanction:

• cheating, constituting unauthorized use of notes or study aids, obtaining a copy of an examination or questions from an exam before the exam, altering graded work with the intent to deceive, submitting another's work as one's own work, allowing another to take an exam in one's name, or submitting similar papers for credit in more than one course without instructor permission;
• aiding cheating by providing material or information to another student intending to deceive a professor;
• plagiarism, orpresenting within one's own work the ideas or words of another without proper acknowledgment
• fabricating data in an assignment, not gathered within assigned guidelines, or providing an inaccurate account of the method;
• falsification of academic records, including altering documents, forging signatures, or falsifying information in an official academic document such as a grade report, ID card, library card, or any other official college communication;
• unauthorized access to academic or administrative records or systems means copying or modifying the college's computer programs or systems without authorization, releasing or dispensing information gained through unauthorized access, or interfering with the use or availability of computer systems or information; or
• unprofessional or inappropriate behavior within a clinical, field, or internship experience, including conduct that is lewd, indecent, obscene, inappropriate, or non-compliant with professional or accreditation standards.

Ivy Tech Community College Academic Misconduct Procedures

Ivy Tech Community College's Code of Student Rights and Responsibilities also sets forth the school's procedures for determining academic misconduct. Your retained school discipline defense advisor's ability to strategically invoke those procedures on your behalf can go a long way toward achieving your best possible outcome to academic misconduct charges. Just because Ivy Tech charges you with academic misconduct does not mean that you will suffer a sanction. Your retained defense advisor may invoke the following protective procedures for academic misconduct allegations at your Ivy Tech campus:

• complaints of academic misconduct within a course first go to the faculty member or, if not within a course, to the Campus Academic Officer. The faculty member alerts the Campus Academic Officer and then investigates;
• the faculty member meets with the accused student in an effort to resolve the allegations. If the student admits the allegations, the faculty member imposes a sanction;
• if the student denies the allegations, the faculty member determines whether cheating occurred and imposes an appropriate sanction;
• in any instance where the faculty member determines a violation, whether by student admission or faculty finding, the faculty member reports the finding to the Campus Academic Officer;
• the Campus Academic Officer then notifies the accused student in writing of the sanction, which the Officer may increase as warranted;
• if the student disagrees with the finding and sanction, the student may appeal to an Academic Appeals Board composed of two professors, two staff members, and two students;
• the Academic Appeals Board conducts a hearing at which the accused student may be present and may present witnesses, exhibits, and arguments;
• the Academic Appeals Board determines the charges, including any sanction, which the accused student may appeal to the Vice President for Academic Affairs only for procedural irregularity.

Ivy Tech Community College Academic Misconduct Sanctions

Ivy Tech Community College's Code of Student Rights and Responsibilities also sets forth the school's academic misconduct sanctions. Academic sanctions expressly include:

• verbal reprimand;
• written reprimand;
• resubmission of assignment;
• alternative assignment;
• reduction of grade on the exam, quiz, assignment, project, or other assessment;
• failure for the exam, quiz, project, or other assessment.

While minor academic misconduct may result in the above academic sanctions, Ivy Tech's Code of Student Rights and Responsibilities reserves the right to impose more serious sanctions like those listed below for personal misconduct, up to and including suspension or expulsion. Take academic misconduct charges seriously. Retain national school discipline defense advisor Joseph D. Lento to help you achieve your best possible outcome to academic misconduct allegations.

Ivy Tech Community College Personal Misconduct Policies

Ivy Tech Community College's Code of Student Rights and Responsibilities includes a lengthy list of personal conduct standards that you must meet to remain in good standing. Personal misconduct violations have little or nothing to do with schoolwork. They instead have to do with activities that threaten or disrupt the academic environment. Ivy Tech's personal conduct standards prohibit students from each of the many following activities, a violation of which could result in discipline:

• theft or other abuse of computer facilities and resources, including unauthorized entries and transfers of files, using another's identification or password, or using computing facilities and resources to interfere with the work of others, send obscene or abusive messages, interfere with the system's use, violate copyright laws, or violate the school's computer use policy;
• dishonesty, including forgery, alteration, or misuse of any college document, record, or identification, or giving false information to a college official;
• assuming another person's identity or role through deception;
• knowingly initiating, transmitting, filing, or circulating a false report or warning concerning an impending bombing, fire, or another emergency;
• unauthorized release or use of any college access codes for computer systems, duplicating systems, or other college equipment;
• inappropriate conduct that is lewd, indecent, or obscene;
• disorderly conduct considered obstructive or disruptive of teaching, research, administration, or other college activities;
• actions that endanger oneself or others in the college community;
• failure to comply with the directions of authorized college officials;
• unauthorized entry, use, or occupancy of college facilities;
• unauthorized possession, use, manufacture, distribution, or sale of illegal fireworks, incendiary devices, or other dangerous explosives;
• unauthorized possession of firearms or other deadly weapons;
• any mental, physical, written, or verbal abuse that threatens, is perceived as threatening, endangers health, safety, and wellness, or promotes hatred or prejudice towards others;
• fighting or other disruptive behavior endangering the peace, safety, or orderly function of the college;
• hazing, whether physically, mentally, emotionally, or psychologically, endangering, abusing, degrading, or intimidating another as a condition of association with a group or organization;
• bullying and cyberbullying, whether physical, verbal, social, or through technology;
• physical abuse of any person, including physical force or violence to restrict the freedom, action, or movement of another person or to endanger the health or safety of another person;
• verbal abuse of another person, including threatening to interfere with personal safety, academic efforts, employment, or participation in college activities, profanity, racial epithets, or derogatory remarks directed toward an individual or group of individuals;
• unauthorized possession, use, or supplying alcoholic beverages to others contrary to law or college policy, or public intoxication;
• intentionally obstructing or blocking access to college facilities, property, or programs;
• violation of any state or federal criminal law;
• unauthorized possession, manufacture, sale, distribution, or use of illegal drugs, any controlled substance, or drug paraphernalia;
• copyright infringement;
• unauthorized taking, possession, or use of college property, services, or the property or services of others;
• damage to or destruction of college property or the property belonging to others;
• unauthorized setting of fires on property or use of or interference with fire equipment and emergency personnel;
• failure to vacate a building or premises when requested to do so by an authorized college official during a real emergency or drill;
• aiding, encouraging, or participating in a riot;
• engaging in or encouraging any behavior or activity that threatens or intimidates any member of the college community; and
• violation of other college or campus policies.

Ivy Tech Community College Personal Misconduct Procedures

Ivy Tech's same Code of Student Rights and Responsibilities setting forth the above personal conduct prohibitions also provides the associated disciplinary procedures. Disciplinary procedures can be critical to your ability to defend and defeat personal misconduct disciplinary charges. You may not have engaged in the misconduct Ivy Tech officials allege, or you may have had extenuating and mitigating circumstances that should reduce or eliminate any serious sanction. Your retained school discipline defense advisor may also be able to show Ivy Tech disciplinary officials that other measures such as remedial training and instruction, apology, or additional work serve you and the school better than a disciplinary sanction. Ivy Tech's disciplinary procedures for personal misconduct are protective in nature, following these steps:

• misconduct reports go to the Campus Student Affairs Officer, who evaluates the allegations, investigates as appropriate, and determines whether the accused student may have violated one or more personal conduct standards;
• for substantiated complaints, the Campus Student Affairs Officer serves notice of the charges on the accused student, who must meet with the Officer in a judicial conference within fourteen days. The notice must explain the process;
• the student may admit the alleged misconduct, in which case the Officer imposes a sanction from which the student may not appeal;
• if the student denies the misconduct, but the Officer finds the student engaged in misconduct, then the Officer imposes a sanction from which the student may appeal;
• a student's appeal goes before the Appeals Board composed of two professors, two staff, and two students. The accused student may attend the appeal hearing in person with a retained discipline defense advisor. The Appeals Board decides the charge on a preponderance of the evidence;
• a student suffering from Appeals Board discipline may appeal a second time to the Vice President for Student Success only if the appeal can demonstrate an irregularity in the proceeding.

Ivy Tech Community College Personal Misconduct Sanctions

Ivy Tech's same Code of Student Rights and Responsibilities sets forth the possible discipline for a student whom the Campus Student Affairs Officer or Appeals Board determines violated Ivy Tech's Code. The seriousness of that discipline, together with its potentially severe collateral consequences, confirms the wisdom of retaining national school discipline defense advisor Joseph D. Lento to represent you throughout your proceeding. Ivy Tech disciplinary officials may impose any of the following forms of discipline:

• warning, which could undermine mentor relationships;
• oral or written reprimand, which could cause a loss of references and recommendations;
• reflective activity, which may take time from other assignments and responsibilities;
• administrative withdrawal, which may compromise your graduation schedule and complicate your return to school or admission elsewhere;
• disciplinary probation, which could prevent your enrollment in other courses or your transfer of credits;
• restitution, which could be expensive, disruptive, and damaging to your reputation;
• participation in a specific program such as counseling or education, which could be embarrassing and unnecessary;
• provision of a specific service such as repair of damaged property or restoration of stolen property;
• suspension from school, which interrupts and delays your education while placing your academic record and reputation at substantial hazard; or
• expulsion from school, effectively terminating your degree or certificate program.

Advisor Representation in Ivy Tech Community College Cases

Retaining national school discipline defense advisor Joseph D. Lento gains you strategic representation designed to achieve your best possible outcome to disciplinary charges. Ivy Tech disciplinary officials may urge you to represent yourself or to rely on student peers or informal staff advisors. Beware of accepting school-assigned advisors who inevitably have a conflict of interest between your personal interest and the advisor's school relationships and interests. Those advisors may not only have serious conflicts that keep them from advising and advocating for you as they could and should. They inevitably lack the broad experience that national school discipline defense advisor Lento brings to your representation, having successfully represented hundreds of other students. While every case is different, the kinds of services advisor Lento and the Lento Law Firm's Student Defense Team can provide include:

• ensuring that you promptly and timely answer the disciplinary charges, raising appropriate defenses, alerting the school to your professional representation by skilled counsel, and invoking school protective procedures;
• requesting and obtaining the school's disclosure of the details of the charges and any evidence or witness statements and identities supporting the charges;
• requesting, arranging, and conducting interviews, conferences, and communications with school witnesses and officials toward an early informal resolution of the charges;
• identifying and acquiring exonerating and mitigating evidence on your behalf, and helping you organize and present that evidence in relief of disciplinary charges;
• attending any formal hearing, as Ivy Tech procedures expressly permit, to help you present your evidence and cross-examine any adverse witnesses;
• identifying any irregularities in the proceedings, such as bias or prejudice of investigators or decision makers, and appealing any adverse decisions based on those irregularities;
• reaching out to school oversight officials in the general counsel's office and retained outside counsel to advocate for alternative special relief; and
• documenting through the school the dismissal of your charges and your other favorable resolution so that the matter no longer affects your future.

Negotiating Ivy Tech Community College Resolutions

Keep your goal in mind to put your Ivy Tech disciplinary charges behind you as quickly and surely as possible. While invoking the above disciplinary procedures using skilled school discipline defense advisor services may be necessary, your matter may also be one that an especially experienced school discipline defense advisor can resolve through early informal negotiation. Invoking the above procedures can be a way of bringing academic administrators to the negotiating table, where your retained advisor may be able to show those officials a win-win outcome to your charges. Don't retain a local criminal defense attorney to pound the table and demand procedural rights that may not exist in your academic administrative proceeding. Instead, retain national school discipline defense advisor Joseph D. Lento for his academic administrative knowledge and skills. Advisor Lento can exercise sensitivity, follow the conventions, and propose the academically smart resolutions that Ivy Tech officials should respect for your best outcome.

Ivy Tech Community College SAP Charges

Ivy Tech Community College, like all other colleges and universities receiving federal funding, maintains satisfactory academic progress (SAP) standards. Ivy Tech, like other schools, reserves the right to enforce those SAP standards with “intervention activities and related restrictions” right up to school dismissal. In theory, those SAP standards ensure that schools do not unwisely extend federal loans to students that students are unlikely to pay back. Federal regulations require Ivy Tech to maintain SAP standards. Yet college students fail to academically progress for a wide range of reasons. Just because a student takes fewer courses, withdraws from more courses, or gets lower grades in certain courses doesn't mean the student is at substantial risk of not completing the program. If you face SAP issues at Ivy Tech, get national school discipline defense advisor Joseph D. Lento's help resolving those issues in your favor so that you can complete your Ivy Tech education. Ivy Tech requires these minimum satisfactory academic progress standards:

• maintain at least a 2.00 / 4.00 cumulative grade-point average, not counting remedial courses, transfer courses, English second language (ESL) courses, or pass/fail grades, and only counting the higher grade in repeated courses;
• complete with a passing grade at least two-thirds (67%) of the course credits you attempt, counting transfer courses, withdrawals, and incompletes; and
• complete your educational program before you have attempted more than 150% of the credits Ivy Tech requires.

Ivy Tech Community College SAP Appeals

Fortunately, the same federal regulations that require Ivy Tech and other colleges and universities to maintain and enforce SAP standards permit Ivy Tech and other schools to relieve students from those standards under certain circumstances. Ivy Tech's SAP procedures expressly offer an appeal when the student can demonstrate extenuating circumstances: “Students in termination status for not meeting Satisfactory Academic Progress (SAP) standards who have extenuating circumstances may appeal their Financial Aid eligibility.” Ivy Tech SAP appeals go before a Campus SAP Appeals Committee. Ivy Tech offers an appeal form, accessible only to students. Ivy Tech's appeal process, though, surely requires more than just a short letter requesting another change. Instead, your appeal should:

• timely and fully complete Ivy Tech's appeal form;
• include your personal statement articulating your extenuating circumstance like your serious illness, a death in your family, or your divorce, separation, childbirth, dependent's illness, or other unavoidable interruption;
• supply documentation proving your extenuating circumstance, such as a death certificate, medical records, or court records;
• articulate how you have overcome the extenuating circumstance so that it no longer interferes with your Ivy Tech studies;
• articulate an achievable academic recovery plan that you have already begun to implement to get you back in good SAP standing; and
• state your educational and career goals that your Ivy Tech degree or certificate will help you achieve.

Ivy Tech Community College SAP Appeal Assistance

An Ivy Tech SAP appeal win is not a given. You can see from the above appeal requirements that your appeal must generally make a credible or even compelling showing of your probable academic success when continuing or resuming your Ivy Tech studies. Your best chance for SAP relief depends on your best representation. SAP appeals benefit from the services of a skilled SAP appeal representative. Retain national school discipline defense advisor Joseph D. Lento for those skilled services. Advisor Lento knows not only how to make and document a strong case for extenuating circumstances but also how to help you show Ivy Tech that you have an achievable academic plan.

Ivy Tech Community College Title IX Charges

Colleges and universities receiving federal funding must also maintain and enforce Title IX policies against certain forms of sexual misconduct. Ivy Tech Community College complies with Title IX federal regulations by maintaining very lengthy, generally Title IX-compliant Student Equal Opportunity, Harassment, and Nondiscrimination Policy and Procedures. That policy prohibits these Title IX forms of sexual misconduct:

• sexual harassment of both the quid-pro-quo form, conditioning an educational benefit on participation in unwelcome sexual conduct, and the hostile environment form, constituting unwelcome conduct of a sexual nature that a reasonable person would consider severe, pervasive, and objectively offensive enough as to deny equal access to education;
• sexual assault, including forcible sexual acts directed against the victim, forcible rape, forcible sodomy, sexual assault with an object, forcible fondling, or non-forcible incest or statutory rape involving an underage victim younger than sixteen years old;
• dating violence committed against a person the accused is dating, has dated, or with whom the accused has had a sexual relationship;
• domestic violence committed by the victim's current spouse, former spouse, current or former intimate partner, or person with whom the victim shares a child, is cohabiting, or has cohabited as a spouse or intimate partner; and
• stalking, defined as the accused committing a course of conduct toward the victim that would cause a reasonable person to fear for safety or suffer substantial emotional distress, while involving at least two acts in which the accused follows, monitors, observes, surveils, threatens, or communicates with or about the victim or interferes with the victim's property.

Ivy Tech Community College Non-Title IX Sexual Misconduct

While Ivy Tech prohibits the above forms of Title IX sexual misconduct, as federal regulations require, Ivy Tech's Student Equal Opportunity, Harassment, and Nondiscrimination Policy and Procedures further prohibit other forms of sexual misconduct not falling within Title IX. Ivy Tech's policy groups those other forms of non-Title IX sexual misconduct under the rubric of “sexual exploitation.” Ivy Tech's policy defines sexual exploitation as “taking non-consensual or abusive sexual advantage of another for their own benefit or for the benefit of anyone other than the person being exploited,” outside of the above Title IX forms of sexual misconduct. Treat sexual exploitation allegations seriously at Ivy Tech because they can lead to disciplinary charges and dismissal. Specific examples of sexual exploitation that Ivy Tech prohibits include:

• sexual voyeurism: observing or allowing others to observe undressing, bathroom use, or sexual acts;
• invasion of sexual privacy;
• taking photographs, video, or audio of another's sexual activity violating reasonable expectations of privacy without the consent of all involved;
• exceeding the boundaries of consent, allowing another to observe sexual activity;
• sharing sexual pictures without the photographed person's consent, such as through revenge pornography;
• prostituting another person;
• engaging in sexual activity while knowingly infected with a sexually-transmitted disease without informing the other person;
• incapacitating or attempting to incapacitate another through alcohol, drugs, or other means to prevent that person's from consenting to sexual activity;
• misappropriating another's identity for dating or sexual connections;
• forcing a person to act against that person's will by threat to share information or images depicting the person's nudity or sexual activity;
• knowingly soliciting a minor for sexual activity;
• engaging in sex trafficking; and
• creating, possessing, or distributing child pornography.

Ivy Tech Community College Sexual Misconduct Procedures

Ivy Tech's Student Equal Opportunity, Harassment, and Nondiscrimination Policy and Procedures provides accused students with substantial due process protections that federal Title IX regulations generally require. For instance, Ivy Tech's policy acknowledges that it must dismiss sexual misconduct complaints when the allegations do not state actionable sexual misconduct. Ivy Tech's policy further acknowledges that it must not let complainants abuse the process with false allegations and must permit a student responding to false allegations to counterclaim against the complainant. Most importantly, Ivy Tech's sexual misconduct procedures guarantee the accused student the right to retain an attorney advisor to attend hearings and cross-examine adverse witnesses. Other Ivy Tech sexual misconduct procedures include:

• the opportunity for early informal resolution of sexual misconduct charges;
• an opportunity for alternative resolution through restorative practices;
• the Title IX coordinator's opportunity to negotiate and implement voluntary resolutions;
• appointment of decision makers from a pool of trained and independent officials;
• written notice of charges and investigation;
• impartiality of investigators, charging officials, and decision makers;
• investigation report shared with the accused student and retained advisor for comment and correction; and
• formal hearing of matters not voluntarily resolved.

Ivy Tech Community College Sexual Misconduct Hearings

Ivy Tech's above charge, investigation, and voluntary resolution procedures give substantial opportunity for your retained defense advisor to help you resolve sexual misconduct charges favorably. But if your matter proceeds to a formal hearing, Ivy Tech's Student Equal Opportunity, Harassment, and Nondiscrimination Policy and Procedures provides further protective procedures. Ivy Tech's Title IX Coordinator appoints a Hearing Panel of three disinterested college officials. The Hearing Panel must notify the accused student and retained advisor of the hearing date and place at least ten days in advance. The Hearing Panel must also provide a pre-hearing disclosure of witnesses and evidence. Witnesses must testify at the hearing under cross-examination, or the Hearing Panel may not consider their testimony. As indicated above, the accused student's retained advisor may cross-examine adverse witnesses. The Hearing Panel must deliberate on a written decision provided to the accused student and retained attorney. If the Hearing Panel finds misconduct, the Panel imposes a sanction up to suspension or dismissal. A student suffering discipline may appeal to Ivy Tech's Vice-President of Diversity, Equity, and Belonging. Retain national school discipline defense advisor Joseph D. Lento for the special hearing skills you need for your best defense of Ivy Tech sexual misconduct charges.

Ivy Tech Community College Alternative Special Relief

No matter whether your challenge at Ivy Tech involves academic misconduct, personal misconduct, satisfactory academic progress, or sexual misconduct, you may have rights and relief that Ivy Tech's published procedures do not describe. National school discipline defense advisor Joseph D. Lento has helped many students obtain alternative special relief through general counsel offices, outside retained counsel, or other oversight channels, even after the student has exhausted and lost all hearings and appeals. Oversight channels help a college or university avoid expensive, distracting, and embarrassing litigation and regulatory risks. Ivy Tech oversight officials may realize that the school's best course is to provide you with reasonable relief that disciplinary officials failed or refused to provide. Let advisor Lento help you explore all potential avenues for relief. Your Ivy Tech education and your future are worth it. Don't go down without a fight. Get the professional help you need for your best outcome.

Ivy Tech Community College Defense Advisor

National school discipline defense advisor Joseph D. Lento and the Lento Law Firm's Student Defense Team have helped hundreds of students nationwide defend and defeat all kinds of college and university misconduct charges. They are available for your representation at Ivy Tech Community College of Indiana now. Don't retain unqualified local criminal defense representation. Academic administrative matters are unique, unlike local criminal and civil courts. The Ivy Tech officials who hold your educational future in their hands expect your representative to know their academic administrative customs and procedures. Retain a professional advisor who knows the customs, procedures, and favorable outcomes, and whose strategic use of Ivy Tech procedures gives you the best chance for your best outcome. Call 888-535-3686 for a consultation now, or use the online service.