Raethz v. Aurora University

In Raethz v. Aurora University, 346 Ill.App.3d 728, 732, 805 N.E.2d 696, 282 Ill. Dec. 77 (2nd Dist. 2004), a student challenged her discharge from the school's master's program because she failed to successfully complete field instructions. The Appellate Court reversed the trial court's judgment because she had not established that the university's decision was arbitrary, capricious or in bad faith. In so ruling, the court concluded, "What would make the university liable for breach of contract in the student university setting is not that the university exercised its academic judgment unwisely, by allegedly failing to comply with the Field Instruction Manual, but that it did not exercise its academic judgment at all, instead acting arbitrarily or in bad faith in its treatment of plaintiff" Id. at 733.