The expulsion of a political science student from a doctoral-track degree program at the State University of New York was justified by her lack of communication skills with her professors and peers, an appeals court ruled.
The Appellate Division, Third Department, said that while it was reluctant to interfere in the academic affairs of colleges, administrators had sufficient grounds when they dismissed Kathy A. Dopp from the Ph.D. program at the Rockefeller College of Public Affairs and Policy in Albany in 2013.
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