Solving Personal Problems and Grievances

If you have a problem with a faculty or staff member, another student, or a personal problem, the following information may be useful.

Here are some places to start:

• UCCS (University Consulting and counseling Service)
  This service handles personal as well as interpersonal problems including study skills, thesis writing support groups and dealing with difficult teachers and advisers.
• Disability Services
  This is a resource for current and prospective students with physical and mental disabilities. They handle screening and official documentation of disabilities as well as help with classroom and program modifications.
• Boynton Mental Health Clinic
  This clinic will help with urgent personal problems such as anxiety or depression.

• Grad Phi (An organization that coordinates social events and disseminates information useful for graduate students.)
• WIPA Women in Physics and Astronomy
• DGS Director of Graduate Studies, Joseph Kapusta
• Associate Department Head Lucy Fortson
• Department Head Ron Poling
• Grievance Committee: (You can make an appointment for a confidential and informal discussion)
  • Chuck Campbell
  • Vuk Mandic
  • Tom Walsh

Ombudsman (SCRC)
Email
Jane Morse (Director)
(612) 624-7272
Minneapolis: 254 Appleby Hall (East Bank)

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 bring a formal grievance as well as help resolve a problem before it reaches the formal grievance stage. They also have advice for organizing effective research teams for conflict-avoidance.

UCCS
Email
(612)-624-3323
Minneapolis: 340 Appleby Hall (East Bank)
St. Paul: 199 Coffey Hall

This service offers counseling, consultation, instruction, and testing services to the Minnesota educational community. Services include individual, career and personal counseling and Student Academic Success Services.

OCR
Email
Minneapolis: 662 Heller Hall (West Bank)
(612) 624-1030

This office offers four informal options: consultation, ombuds services, facilitated dialogue, and mediation with a neutral third party.

• Departmental Grievance Committee:
  • Chuck Campbell
  • Vuk Mandic
  • Tom Walsh

• Graduate School Grievance Procedures
• Office for Conflict Resolution Formerly the University Grievance Office. This office provides peer hearings, final University decisions, and binding arbitration. You should have first exhausted your other options either with SCRC or OCR's informal grievance services.