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...this problem is maintaining the core requirements for current students while substantially increasing the number of departmental courses that count towards the core requirement. Designating which departmental courses count towards the core should not require the unpredictable and after-the-fact process of individual student application to the Registrar. A faculty committee, sitting down with the course catalog, could perform the task in a week. This reform actually could be in place by the fall 2006 semester...
...cannot give students a clear sense of the differences in their work,” he said.He added that 96 percent of the faculty already give students pluses and minuses.But on the final grade report, the only options given to faculty are whole-letter grades.Brown’s registrar reported that 46.7 percent of grades awarded were ‘A’s, 24 percent were ‘B’s, 4.6 percent were ‘C’s, 2.6 percent were no credit, and 21.3 percent were...
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...
With a little effort from teaching assistants, professors and the Registrar, it would be possible to alleviate a great amount of stress for students and improve their overall learning experience...