Loma Linda School of Dentistry in Loma Linda, California, offers dental students a well-structured and balanced education centered on compassionate patient care reflecting the school's Christian values. “Service is our calling,” the school commits and professes. Loma Linda School of Dentistry offers comprehensive dental education from the bachelor of science in dental hygiene degree and master of science degrees all the way to the doctor of dental surgery (D.D.S.) degree and certifications in advanced dental education. Loma Linda is also among the most desirable places to live and study in California. You are in a good place for dental education at Loma Linda School of Dentistry.
Every dental school, though, presents its challenges. Loma Linda School of Dentistry faculty members must challenge students if they are to acquire dentistry's vast knowledge base and refined practice skills. Academic challenges can also combine with life challenges, like illness, injury, loss of a loved one, or even pregnancy or divorce, to affect a dental student's satisfactory academic progress or even a student's professionalism. Disciplinary charges threatening dismissal may result. If you face dismissal at Loma Linda School of Dentistry, retain the Lento Law Firm Education Law Team for the skill and experience you need to defend dental school dismissal. Protect your dental education and career.
Loma Linda School of Dentistry Causes for Dismissal
Academic Progression at Loma Linda School of Dentistry
Loma Linda School of Dentistry requires its students to meet satisfactory academic progress (SAP) requirements, just as other federally funded schools must do. Loma Linda dental students must maintain at least a 2.00-grade point average, complete two-thirds of the credits they attempt, and complete the four-year doctoral program within no more than six years. Low grades, incomplete courses, course withdrawals, and terms taken off for other responsibilities can result in your disqualification from financial aid and practical dismissal from the program. Loma Linda University does offer an SAP appeal process. But effective appeals must explain the student's extenuating circumstances and convince school officials of the student's achievable recovery plan.
Professionalism at Loma Linda School of Dentistry
Loma Linda University maintains a Student Handbook that includes professionalism requirements. Dental students, like other university students, must meet the school's personal, relational, and societal norms and expectations. Those expectations address issues like alcohol or drug abuse, harassment, disrespect, dishonesty, cheating, falsifying clinical hours, disorderly conduct, incompetence, missed clinical assignments, patient neglect, poor professional dress or demeanor, and other indications of unfitness for a dental practice. Loma Linda School of Dentistry also adopts the American Dental Association's Code of Ethics. You doubtless did not matriculate expecting to face professionalism issues. But professional expectations can be significantly different and higher for dental students than for others, leading to the risk of dismissal.
Loma Linda School of Dentistry Adjudication Process
Loma Linda University's Student Handbook also sets forth the school's disciplinary procedures. When strategically and skillfully invoked by defense counsel, procedures can protect a dental student against unfair treatment and disproportionate punishment. Loma Linda School of Dentistry's disciplinary procedures begin with student advisement. Further procedures depend on the nature of the charges and the sanction the school pursues. For probation on academic or other remedial issues, an academic standards committee recommends a corrective action plan. The school's dean must accept the recommendation for the school to put it in place. The school's disciplinary procedures offer other opportunities for the informal resolution of charges.
Formal Hearings at Loma Linda School of Dentistry
More serious academic or professionalism charges in which Loma Linda School of Dentistry threatens to seek dismissal go before a Professional Standards Committee. The committee hears the school's charges and student's evidence before making a recommendation to the department chair, who forwards a review recommendation to the school's dean. Loma Linda School of Dentistry's Student Handbook expressly authorizes dismissal when “the problem still remains unresolved or shows insufficient improvement to meet” the school's academic and professional standards.
Loma Linda School of Dentistry Appeal Process
Loma Linda University's Student Handbook provides for appeals of dismissal recommendations and other serious disciplinary sanctions. The student facing dismissal must appeal to the university's president within five days of the dismissal or other adverse decision. The student's appeal must convincingly state the grounds on which the president should reverse the dismissal decision. Grounds may include defects in the School of Dentistry's dismissal process.
Loma Linda School of Dentistry Sanctions
Loma Linda University's Student Handbook provides progressive sanctions for dental students who fail to meet School of Dentistry standards. Those sanctions begin with a warning or reprimand, progress to probation and remediation, and end with suspension or program discontinuance. Progressive sanctions give your retained defense attorney advisor an opportunity to negotiate outcomes that may appear on your school record as remedial training or education rather than frank discipline, protecting your reputation for good character and fitness for employment.
Lona Linda School of Dentistry Defense Attorney Advisor
Disciplinary proceedings under Loma Linda University's Student Handbook are complex, following both university rules and School of Dentistry rules. Academic administrative procedures also differ from criminal or civil court procedures, so much so that a local criminal defense attorney is generally unqualified to provide skilled student defense services. Retain a skilled and experienced student defense attorney advisor for your dental school appeals and other hearing procedures. Get the discerning, diplomatic, and articulate representation you need to preserve your dental education.
Loma Linda School of Dentistry Special Relief
Loma Linda University, like other colleges and universities, employs oversight officials to ensure that it treats students fairly. General counsel offices, outside retained counsel, and other oversight officials work to reduce regulatory and litigation risks. If you have exhausted all school procedures and appeals, retain national student defense attorney advisor Joseph D. Lento to reach out to Loma Linda University oversight officials to negotiate alternative special relief. Attorney advisor Lento and the Education Law Team have successfully negotiated student reinstatement even after all other procedures had failed to provide any relief.
Defense Services for Loma Linda School of Dentistry
The Lento Law Firm's premier Education Law Team and national student defense attorney advisor Joseph D. Lento are available at Loma Linda School of Dentistry in Loma Linda, California, for the defense of disciplinary charges threatening dismissal. Let them help you like they have helped hundreds of other students nationwide avoid dismissal. Call 888.535.3686 or go online now.
