BENSON v. TRS. OF COLUMBIA UNIV. IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK


215 A.D.2d 255 (1995)

626 N.Y.S.2d 495

Constance L. Benson, Appellant, v. Trustees of Columbia University in the City of New York et al., Respondents

Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York, First Department.

May 18, 1995


Petitioner commenced this CPLR article 78 proceeding to challenge the respondent University's determination that she had failed her final examination of its Doctoral Program, the oral defense of her thesis. She argued that the grading by her dissertation defense committee was arbitrary and capricious in that the committee was improperly composed, having six members rather than the customary five and was not approved by the Dean, and that several members of her committee were...

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