Word: registrar
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Perhaps the Registrar is making a push to replace Google as the new internet wonderboy. It has, no doubt, climbed precipitously up the Nielson NetRatings list for most popular online destinations over the past several weeks as students have hit “reload” religiously in hopes of finally catching a glimpse of their long delayed grades. Alas, more than three weeks have passed since the last exams were administered, and some students are still missing their grades. The combination of a lengthier, but seemingly not more effective, verification process for grades and unusually recalcitrant behavior...
More importantly, students who learn about their course grades so late into the following semester are effectively robbed of a chance to productively reflect on the courses they just completed. Indeed, the blame for this must be shared by the Registrar and course instructors. With the advance of each day, the demands of spring semester bear more heavily on schedules, and the likelihood of revisiting one’s performance on a fall final or paper decreases. In many classes, finals and papers are never returned to students unless those students seek them out. This pedagogically bankrupt practice should...
...equal.” He also said that the possibility of the midterm coinciding with the due date is small, because most economics concentrators do not write theses. The Economics department requires only students wanting high or highest honors to write theses. According to the Office of the Registrar, there are 74 students enrolled in Economics 985, “Senior Research Seminars,” the senior thesis tutorial in the department. While the mid-March midterm dates may not affect all students, there are some seniors who will definitely experience an overlap between their midterms and their thesis...
...Registrar’s office said that students would be able to access their most recent grades by Feb. 6. Last semester, the Office of the Registrar decided to withhold grades until they could be verified and released all at once...
...grades were entered in error and have been now corrected,” Matalon quoted from an e-mail sent by the Registrar. Today, affected students will be able to view their correct grade online...