====== Solving Personal Problems and Grievances ======
If you have problems with professors, staff, other students, or with yourself, the following information may be useful.











===== Personal problems =====
You can start with any of the following places, and if they turn out to be unproductive, they will refer you to a better place.  

  * [[http://www.ucs.umn.edu/|UCCS]]  (Univ. Consulting and counseling Service):\\ Almost any personal as well as interpersonal problems including study skills, thesis writing support groups and dealing with difficult teachers and advisers.
  * [[http://ds.umn.edu/|Disability Services]] \\ Resources for current and prospective students with physical and mental disabilities, including screening and official documentation of disabilities as well as help with classroom and program modifications.  
  * [[http://www.bhs.umn.edu/services/mentalhealth.htm|Boynton Mental Health Clinic]]:\\ Help with urgent personal problems such as anxiety or depression.  
  

===== Interpersonal Problems and Grievances =====


==== Informal help within the department ====
  * [[gradphi@physics.umn.edu|Grad phi]]
  * [[wipa@physics.umn.edu|WIPA]]
  * [[yk@physics.umn.edu|DGS]]
  * [[goldman@physics.umn.edu|Department Head]]
  * Grievance committee members (talking to them informally)
=== Grievance committee members (2006-07 academic year)===
  * [[cattell@fields.space.umn.edu|Cindy Cattell]]
  * [[campbell@physics.umn.edu|Charles Campbell]]
  * [[prisca@physics.umn.edu|Priscilla Cushman]]
  * [[marshak@physics.umn.edu|Marvin Marshak]]












==== Informal help from experts ====
  * [[http://www1.umn.edu/sos/students.htm|Ombudsman]] (Student Conflict Resolution Center):\\  [[sos@umn.edu|Email]]; (612) 624-SCRC (7272); 211 Eddy Hall, 192 Pillsbury Drive SE, Minneapolis (East Bank); or by filling [[http://www1.umn.edu/sos/statementform.htm|on-line form]].The Student Conflict Resolution Center assists students in resolving campus-based problems and concerns through coaching, intervention and mediation by Ombudsman and Advocacy staff.  They can help you in a formal grievance as well as help prevent a problem from getting to the formal grievance stage.  They also have advice for organizing effective research teams to avoid conflicts to begin with.  \\ 
  * [[http://example.com|UCCS:]]\\ University Counseling and Consulting Services offers counseling, consultation, instruction, and testing services to the Minnesota educational community.  Services include individual, career and personal counseling and Student Academic Success Services.  \\ 
  * [[http://www1.umn.edu/ocr/|Office for Conflict Resolution:]]\\ Offer four informal options—consultation, ombuds services, facilitated dialogue, and mediation—with a neutral third party to help parties find their own solutions.  








==== Formal Grievances ====
  * Departmental Grievance Committee: [[cattell@physics.umn.edu|Chair-Cindy Cattell]]
  * [[http://www.grad.umn.edu/dgs/handbook/student_services/grievance.html|Graduate School Grievance Procedures]]
  * [[http://www1.umn.edu/ocr/|Office for Conflict Resolution:]] replaces the University Grievance Office but continues to offer the hearing procedures that were previously available.  They provide a peer hearing, a final University decision, and binding arbitration.  You should have first exhausted your other options either with SCRC or OCR's informal grievance services (consultation, ombuds services, facilitated dialogue, and mediation—with a neutral third party to help parties find their own solutions.)