2024-2025 Faculty Exam & Grading Guide

GRADING

Grade Conformity Exception

The grading policy provides:

Whenever a faculty member’s distribution of grades in a course for a semester does not conform to the applicable limits for each letter grade range, an Associate Dean shall review the faculty member’s explanation for such non-conformance. If the Associate Dean believes that such explanation is unsatisfactory, the Associate Dean shall confer with the faculty member to discuss the faculty member’s reasons for the non -conformance. If the Associate Dean determines that such reasons are insufficient, the Associate Dean shall inform the faculty member that he or she is not in compliance with this policy.

Exemption Requests Procedure

If the grades you are assigning do not meet the grading curve, and you want to keep those assigned grades, then you need to Submit an Exemption Request.

The Course Grading Details and Current Conformity Status will display with an explanation on the Instructor Letter Grading Phase screen. The option to Submit Exemption Request will display in the upper right corner in red. Once you click on this prompt, you will be brought to a pop-up page where you can type in your request for the exemption. Hit YES to send this message to the appropriate dean for approval.

Pass/Fail Grading

The instructor in any non-anonymously graded course may elect to grade the course on an Honors/Pass/Low Pass/Fail basis. Such grades will not be calculated into a student’s cumulative average. An instructor must notify the students at the first meeting of the course if the instructor elects the Honors/Pass/Low Pass/Fail basisof grading. Prospective students in a clinical course will be notified at the time of application if the instructor intends to utilize the Honors/Pass/Low Pass/Fail basis of grading. The grades of Honors, Pass and Low Pass shall be satisfactory grades, and the grade of Fail shall be the equivalent of a grade of F. Faculty who intend to grade on the Honors/Pass/Low Pass/Fail scale should include this information on thesyllabus and students must be aware of the grading method prior to the add/drop period. Faculty using this scale must communicate that information to the Office of Academic Services during the first two weeks of classes.

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