Ellias v. Trustees of Columbia University

—Order and judgment (one paper), Supreme Court, New York County (William McCooe, J.), entered December 23, 1996, which denied petitioner’s application challenging respondent university’s determination failing petitioner’s oral defense of her doctoral dissertation, and dismissed the petition, unanimously affirmed, without costs.

Most of petitioner’s allegations that respondent violated its own guidelines governing doctoral dissertations are actually attacks on respondent’s substantive evaluation of petitioner’s academic performance, and, as such, are beyond judicial review (see, Benson v…