Review Boards
The Review Board is the culmination of your entire semester’s work. It is your only opportunity to present the accumulated work of one semester to be assessed for studio credits. Each student
is allotted a one-and-one-half-hour time slot, during which two instructors and two student reviewers evaluate the student’s work. The student being reviewed participates fully in the evaluation. During the review, each student is given advice and criticism on the work presented. At the end of the review, the faculty review team assigns full, partial, or no credits. A written evaluation from all four reviewers is placed in the student’s permanent Review Board file.

Review Boards are administered by the Registrar’s Office. They take place during the last three weeks of the semester. The schedule is posted outside the Registrar’s Office at least three weeks prior to the start of Review Boards. You are expected to continue working until the last day of the semester, regardless of when your review takes place. Students who need to travel should wait to do so until after the last day of Review Boards.
 

Student Reviewing
In addition to attending your own Review Board, all students having a Review Board are required to sit on the Review Boards of two other students. Participating as a student reviewer provides the unique opportunity to view, evaluate, and critique two other students’ works. The faculty and administration regard student reviewing as an essential part of the educational process. Therefore, failure to participate as a student reviewer will result in credits for that semester being withheld until they are made up the following semester.

Student reviewers must arrive promptly at the assigned Review Board and remain for the entire session. Students who are more than fifteen minutes late for their reviewer assignments or who leave before the session is over will be disqualified for that session. Failure to comply with the requirements for student reviewing will result in all credits for that semester being withheld, placing the student on warning, probation or suspension until the reviewing sessions are made up.
 

Review Board Postponements/No-Shows
If extraordinary circumstances occur and you are not able to attend the Review Board, you must notify both the Registrar’s Office and the Student Affairs Office in advance for a postponement. A Review Board Postponement Petition must be submitted to Student Affairs prior to the date of the Review Board. You are required to meet with the director of Student Affairs to discuss the petition before the postponement can be granted. Postponement of the Review Board does not automatically release you from student-reviewing responsibilities. Postponement of student reviewing must be arranged separately by contacting the Registrar’s Office.

Postponements are not automatic and may not be granted in all cases. An excuse of “I don’t have enough work to present” is not a valid reason for postponement. The student who is experiencing an inability to produce work can often benefit the most from the review. Faculty and student reviewers can offer advice and ideas on how to become more productive, and in some instances partial or full credit may be granted. Postponement of a Review Board will usually result in warning, probation or suspension. Requests for postponements will not be accepted once a Review Board has started.
 

Rescheduling Fees for Missed Review Boards
A rescheduling fee of $200 for undergraduate students and $300 for graduate students will be charged under any of the following circumstances, if a new Review Board must be scheduled:

· Failure to appear for Review Board
· Failure to follow the proper postponement procedure
· Failure to report for the Review Board on time and prepared

You must generally wait until the end of the following semester to have another Review Board in order to make up credits. Reviews cannot be scheduled outside of the regular Review Board period. Review Board Appeals

There are a few, rare circumstances that necessitate the scheduling of a new regular Review Board. These include instances when the reviewers are not able to agree on the number of studio credits that should be awarded (stalemate) and occasions when communication has failed between the student being reviewed and the reviewers. You may appeal the outcome of your Review Board to the director of Student Affairs. In most cases, an investigation will be conducted to determine whether the Review Board functioned properly. The fact that a student has not received full credit will not, by itself, make the student eligible for a new Review Board. If communication fails in a second regular (appeal) Review Board, the student will be scheduled for a Re-Review Board. Judgments of the Re-Review Board in all matters are final.
 

Review Boards Off Campus
Review Boards are scheduled in the School classrooms. In extraordinary instances in which the work you are doing cannot be moved, you may request that the Review Board be held at an
outside location, such as your studio. All members of the Review Board must be willing to view the work off-campus. The student being reviewed is responsible for transportation and all associated costs to and from the location of the board. These arrangements must be made in writing at least 48 hours (excluding weekends and holidays) prior to the scheduled review board. Travel time to and from the studio is deducted from the one-and-one-half hours allotted. However, please note that some instructors will not go to off-campus Review Boards. Contact the Registrar’s Office for more information