NSU Student Handbook 2024

3.5.9.3.1. The Chair will provide the complainant the opportunity to provide any additional relevant factual details that were not previously provided. The complainant may choose to do so or may decline and maintain the right to not provide information, materials, documents, or answer questions. The complainant may decline but still present witnesses. 3.5.9.3.2. The Chair will ask the complainant to present any witnesses, who will be brought to the hearing one at a time, and ask questions of the witness. 3.5.9.3.3. The Student Conduct Panel will then ask questions of the witness. 3.5.9.3.4. The Chair will ask the respondent for any questions for the witness. The Respondent will provide the Chair any questions in writing. 3.5.9.3.5. The Chair will ask the witness any questions provided by the respondent that the Chair determines to be relevant. 3.5.9.3.6. The Chair will ask the complainant to present the next witness. The process described above shall repeat for each witness until the complainant has presented all of its witnesses. 3.5.9.4. The Chair will provide the respondent the opportunity to engage in the hearing. If the respondent agrees to engage, then: 3.5.9.4.1. The Chair will provide the respondent the opportunity to provide any additional relevant factual details that were not previously provided. The respondent may choose to do so or may decline and maintain the right to not provide information, materials, documents, or answer questions. The respondent may decline but still present witnesses. 3.5.9.4.2. The Chair will ask the respondent to present any witnesses, who will be brought to the hearing one at a time, and ask questions of the witness. 3.5.9.4.3. The Student Conduct Panel will then ask questions of the witness. 3.5.9.4.4. The Chair will ask the complainant for any questions for the witness. The complainant will provide the Chair any questions in writing. 3.5.9.4.5. The Chair will ask the witness any questions provided by the complainant that the Chair determines to be relevant. 3.5.9.4.6. The Chair will ask the respondent to present the next witness. The process described above shall repeat for each witness until the respondent has presented all of its witnesses. 3.5.9.5. The Student Conduct Panel may ask the complainant and/or the Respondent whether s/he agrees to answer questions. The Student Conduct Panel may then ask questions of either or both parties who agree to answer questions. 3.5.9.6. The Student Conduct Panel will meet in a closed session to discuss and make its recommendation, which closed session shall not be audio recorded. 3.5.10. The Student Conduct Panel shall review all information and materials presented to it and shall decide by majority vote whether the respondent violated the Student Code by a preponderance of the evidence (i.e., more likely than not). Decision-making techniques or approaches that apply sex stereotypes or generalizations should be avoided so that the hearing process proceeds objectively and impartially. 82 NSU STUDENT HANDBOOK 2024-25

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