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 Cindy Cattell
• Department Head Ron Poling
• Grievance Committee (You can make an appointment for a confidential and informal discussion)
  

• Cindy Cattell (Chair)
• Priscilla Cushman
• Marvin Marshak

• Ombudsman (Student Conflict Resolution Center)
  Email; (612) 624-SCRC (7272); 211 Eddy Hall, 192 Pillsbury Drive SE, Minneapolis (East Bank); or by filling 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 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 (University Counseling and Consulting Services)
  

Minneapolis: 109 Eddy Hall, St. Paul: 199 Coffey Hall, 612-624-3323 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.

• Office for Conflict Resolution
  

662 Heller Hall (West Bank), 271-19th Avenue South, Email, (612) 624-1030

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

• Departmental Grievance Committee: Cindy Cattell (chair)
• Graduate School Grievance Procedures
  • Physics grad student Matt Loth (Email, 4-7375) is a member of the grievance committee through December 2010.
  • Professor Benjamin Munson (Email, 4-3322) Committee chair.
• 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.