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Changing Grades
GPA | Grading Scales | Changing Grades | Repeating Courses
Grades can be changed under the very specific circumstances below:
Incomplete or Incorrect Grades
On occasion an instructor makes a mistake in reporting grades. If you believe that the grade on your transcript is incorrect, you should contact your instructor. If it is, indeed, incorrect, the instructor will change it with the Records Office.
An incorrect grade may only be changed in the first semester after it was assigned, so be sure to follow though on any incorrect grades quickly.
You have a maximum of one year (less if your instructor specifies a shorter time period) to replace an incomplete grade with an A-F or S/U grade.
Revision of Records
On occasion a student will fail to follow through with the proper procedures to reflect their situation. When this happens a grade on the transcript, while technically correct, does not accurately reflect what happened in a given semester.
Consider, for example, the following situation. A first semester freshman decides to withdraw from a class. She has her instructor sign the withdrawal form indicating that she will receive a grade of "W", she has the approval of her academic unit advising office to withdraw from the course, but then fails to take that approval to the Registration Office for entry into the database. When assigning grades her instructor has no choice but to give her an "F" in the course. She can't assign a "W" because the student didn't officially withdraw. She can't assign anything other than an "F" because the student didn't come to class or do any work after the time she thought she withdrew.
A student in this type of situation can petition a campus wide faculty committee to change her transcript and reflect the withdrawal that she thought she had done. To petition the Committee on Revision of Records for the change the student needs to start in her academic unit advising office to pick up appropriate forms and instructions.
Petitions are reviewed by this faculty committee and are approved, denied, or tabled for additional documentation. Students are informed of the decision of the committee in writing.
Academic Renewal
In the past, a student who had a very poor academic record took time off, and then years later wanted to return to MU would have a very difficult time graduating. This was because the poor grades earned earlier stayed on the student's transcript and affected their grade point average forever and ever.
Beginning in the summer of 2003 the University adopted a new policy, Academic Renewal, which allows, under very specific circumstances, the removal grades from one or more semesters from the student's grade point average. To apply for Academic Renewal the student must have been out of school for a minimum of four consecutive years and must, upon return to school, have earned at least 12 credit hours with a 2.5 grade point average within one calendar year. Specifics and forms are available on the Registrar's Web site.
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