College of Dental Medicine (CDM)—Predoctoral Program 2025–2026 122 SPC by faculty members or administration. The CDM’s Office for Academic Affairs will provide the SPC with progress reports for committee review, discussion, and recommended actions related to performance grades. d. address problems related to alleged student violations of the CDM’s Code of Behavioral Conduct or any regulation, policy, behavioral code, or academic code of the college and/or NSU; specifically, the SPC addresses issues regarding any predoctoral student’s professionalism, ethics, and behavior and verifies that predoctoral students have maintained the standard of ethical, moral, personal, and professional conduct required for the continued study of dental medicine. At the discretion of the academic program, violations of college or university conduct/behavioral policies may be referred to the NSU dean of students to be addressed under the conduct procedures detailed in the NSU portion of this handbook. T he CDM’s Office of Student Services must provide the SPC with progress reports for committee discussion and action on any students who have received behavioral sanctions or referral to the SPC. Students may be placed on monitored academic status by the SPC as a result of faculty concerns about a student’s clinical, didactic, and/or research progress, and ethical, professional, or behavioral issues. Students may be subject to more frequent monitoring and advisement of academic and behavioral progress. e. review the reinstatement of predoctoral students on administrative break in enrollment status who are not in good academic standing f. recommend appropriate actions to the dean (see the section on Academic, Behavioral, and Disciplinary Actions in this student handbook) g. r ecommend candidates to the dean who qualify for graduation to receive the Doctor of Dental Medicine (D.M.D.) degree 2. SPC Membership The SPC membership shall include faculty and administrative members, as well as an SPC chair from the CDM’s faculty, all appointed by the dean. 3. SPC Meeting Protocols and Process: Academic Deficiencies and/or Behavioral Issues The SPC reviews the academic and/or behavioral matters and program progress of all predoctoral students. Students who have current or ongoing academic deficiencies, program progress concerns, and/or behavioral issues may be requested—in writing, either via email to the student’s NSU email address, certified mail to the student’s address on file with the university, or via hand delivery with receipt—to meet with the SPC to discuss their academic performance and/or behavioral issue(s). Students referred to the SPC for matters that may result in repeat of didactic, laboratory, or clinical courses, or the extension of program length, suspension, or dismissal decisions, as defined in the student handbook, will be required to meet with the SPC. The student should refer to the student handbook for reference to the relevant policies that describe the SPC process and the Appeals Board process, and may meet with the associate dean of Academic Affairs for additional guidance in this
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