Grievance Information

1. The FAGC can consider the following grievances:?
   1. An appeal of a sanction imposed under the Professional Rights and Responsibilities Policy (PRR).?
   2. An allegation that a grievance process at the college level was conducted improperly and that the dean has failed to rectify the process.?
   3. An allegation that a department chair, program director, dean, or other administrator in taking or failing to take some action, has violated college policy, UCCS policy, University of Colorado policy, Regent Law, or Regent Policy.?
   4. Appeals of termination for cause for Instructional, Research, and Clinical (“IRC”) faculty on multi-year contracts.?
2. Any grievance for which there is a separate procedure must be resolved according to that procedure and is ineligible for submission as a grievance under the campus policy.? Such separate procedures include, but are not limited to:?
   1. Allegations of sexual misconduct, intimate partner violence, stalking, or related violations (Office of Institutional Equity).?
   2. Allegations of protected class discrimination, harassment, or related violations (Office of Institutional Equity).?
   3. Allegations of research misconduct (APS 1007, Office of Sponsored Programs and Research Integrity).?
   4. Allegations of Fiscal Misconduct (APS 4012).?
   5. Dismissal for cause, or denial of promotion and tenure (Regent Policy 5); this applies to tenure-track and tenured faculty only.?
   6. Other grievances that may be filed directly with the system Faculty Senate Grievance Committee (FSGC- Faculty Senate Grievance Committee | University of Colorado), such as alleged violation of academic freedom (Regent Policy 5).?

3. Who can file a grievance: Tenure-track, tenured, Instructional, Research, and Clinical (IRC), and Lecturer faculty, as defined by APS 5060 (Faculty Appointments).?