Word: processing
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Once a researcher finishes the training, verification is sent by e-mail to the researcher, as well various administrators who work to process grant applications before sending them to the government...
Because University administrators process all grant applications, they would be responsible for keeping track of every researcher who has completed the training and for ensuring that those who had not done the training did so, according to Mitchell...
...ruling, the SJC neglected to say whether the relationship between universities and students is indeed contractual in nature, though the courts treated it that way throughout the judicial process. Also, by not allowing Shaer's case to go to trial, the court failed to assert the principle that, when serious charges are involved, a university need not be the ultimate fact-finding and punitive authority...
Courts should not cede their jurisdiction over such serious situations to universities that are unwilling to guarantee due process for both the victim and the defendant. If courts do delegate their responsibility to universities, the resulting privatization of justice sets a chilling precedent. Courts ensure due process and basic rights, such as the right to be represented by an attorney, because the decisions in serious cases like Shaer's have a huge impact on people's lives. A university's determination in such a case can have a similar effect. Therefore, those rulings ought to be made by a court...
...body such as Harvard's Administrative Board has the power to ignore its own rules, then it becomes virtually omnipotent. If a university need not abide by the process that it sets down in its own student handbook, then those regulations and guarantees aren't worth the paper they're printed...