Student Group Accountability Review Board
In the interest of promoting transparency, peer-based leadership, community citizenship, and accountability, Columbia, in partnership with the seventeen schools and central departments, has established the Student Group Accountability Review Board (SGARB).
Student Group Accountability Review Board (SGARB) Purpose
The SGARB is meant to be an educational peer-review process to support recognized student groups (RSG) in correcting student group conduct that is in violation of University and/or school policies. Except for those policies exclusively administered by another University office (e.g., the Office of Institutional Equity), the SGARB’s role is to review any alleged violation of University and/or school policy by a recognized student group, determine the recognized student group’s responsibility, based on a preponderance of the evidence if it is more likely than not a violation occurred, and, where a recognized student group is found responsible, determine appropriate sanction(s) given the facts and based on past precedent.
