/Institutions/Coker-University/json/2025-2026/Student-Handbook-local.json

/Institutions/Coker-University/json/2025-2026/Student-Handbook.json

A Who Can Serve as an Advisor

The Parties may each have an Advisor (friend, mentor, family member, attorney, or any other individual a party chooses) present with them for all meetings, interviews, and hearings within the resolution process. The Parties may select whomever they wish to serve as their Advisor as long as the Advisor is eligible and available.

 

The University cannot guarantee equal advisory rights, meaning that if one party selects an Advisor who is an attorney, but the other party does not, or cannot afford an attorney, the University is not obligated to provide an attorney to advise that party.

 

A party may elect to change Advisors during the process and is not obligated to use the same Advisor throughout. Parties are expected to provide the Senior Director of Student Experience and Title IX Coordinator with timely notification if they change Advisors. If a party changes Advisors, consent to share information with the previous Advisor is assumed to be terminated, and a release for the new Advisor must be submitted.

 

The University may permit Parties to have more than one Advisor, or an Advisor and a support person, upon special request to the Senior Director of Student Experience and Title IX Coordinator. The decision to grant this request is at the Senior Director of Student Experience and Title IX Coordinator’s sole discretion and will be granted equitably to all Parties.

 

If a party requests that all communication be made through their attorney Advisor instead of to the party, the University will agree to copy both the party and their Advisor on all communications.