What it covers
A final grade you believe was calculated wrongly or applied unfairly, a syllabus policy enforced inconsistently, a denied accommodation, or a professional-standing decision in a program. It does not cover a good-faith academic judgment you simply disagree with — a committee won't re-grade an essay it finds was fairly evaluated.
The steps
Talk to the instructor, then the chair. If unresolved, file a written grievance with the college by the deadline stating what decision you're challenging and why. A faculty committee reviews the record, may interview both parties, and recommends an outcome to the dean. The student ombuds can advise you through it, confidentially and without taking sides.
In and around Porter Falls
Curriculum decisions at Porter run through the departments that meet in Founders Hall and the Applied Arts Building, then to Faculty Senate, then to the Provost in Millwright Hall. The pace is deliberately slow and the review calendar is published.
The practical details
Start informally: Raise it with the instructor first, then the department chair — most issues resolve here. Formal grievance: A written complaint to the college, within a set number of days, reviewed by a faculty committee. Grounds: An arbitrary or capricious decision, a departure from stated policy, or discrimination — not simple disagreement with academic judgment. Anything time-sensitive — an accommodation, a booking, a deadline — is worth confirming directly before you rely on it, because the specifics here can change from term to term.
If you have a question
The office behind this is Office of the Provost (Millwright Hall, Room 300). Call (715) 555–0130 or email provost@uwporterfalls.edu during the fall and spring terms, or sign in to MyPorter to send a message or book a time. If it turns out another office owns the question, they will route it rather than send you back to the start.
Fictional information
UW–Porter Falls is a work of parody. Every office, person, building, phone number and statistic on this page is invented; nothing here describes a real institution or a service you can actually contact.