2016-2017 Catalog > Academic Regulations and Degree Requirements for Undergraduate Students > Grading

Grading

At the end of each semester, grades are submitted by the faculty through Self Service, by the published deadlines. Changes to previously submitted grades must be submitted in writing to the Office of the Registrar. Only grades that are higher than those previously submitted will be accepted; grades may not be lowered.

Once the faculty has voted to approve the degrees for the students who are graduating (three days before Commencement), all transcripts are considered to be “frozen.” Following that vote, changes to the transcript, including changes of grade, are not permitted.

A student’s course work is evaluated on the basis of grades and semester hours taken. The letter grades used and their associated grade points are: A, 4.0; A-, 3.7; B+, 3.3; B, 3.0; B-, 2.7; C+, 2.3; C, 2.0; C-, 1.7; D+,1.3; D, 1.0; D-, 0.7; F, 0.0; NF, 0.0; and IF, 0.0. Grade point standing is obtained by summing the products of semester hours and grade points and dividing by the number of hours taken.

Work taken during the summer and while on leave from the College will be included in determining grade point standing, but courses taken under the satisfactory/unsatisfactory option or graded pass/not passed are excluded.

Incomplete

All course work is normally due by the last day of examinations for the semester. An incomplete for up to four weeks after the last day of examinations may be granted only with the approval of the instructor and the class dean. Applications requesting an incomplete must be filed by the end of the Final Examination period.

Incompletes extended beyond four weeks require the approval of the faculty member and the Committee on Academic Standing and will be granted only in the most extraordinary of circumstances. If a final grade has not been submitted within four weeks of the beginning of the following semester, the incomplete grade will be replaced with a failure, which will be calculated into the grade point average as a failure, unless a different grade, based on previously completed work, is submitted by the instructor.

No Grade

Within four weeks of the beginning of the following semester all work must be completed and a grade submitted; otherwise, a final grade of failure, which will be calculated into the grade point average as a failure, will be posted.