GRADE REPLACEMENT POLICY级替换的策略.pptVIP

GRADE REPLACEMENT POLICY Committee on Policy and Planning Mānoa Faculty Senate May 4, 2011 Background In Fall 2010, the grade replacement issue was brought to the Senate from the Administration’s Enrollment Planning Working Group on “Improving Retention and Graduation Rates at Mānoa.” CAPP was asked to consider whether Mānoa should develop a ‘replace’ grade rule for courses taken twice by students who did poorly the first time they took a course. The Problem One of the reasons that students drop out of college is due to poor grades, usually between their second and third terms. What is not clear is to why the remaining students were not graduating within four or six years. Our six year graduation rate is 50.6% and our four year graduation rate is 14.5% (, 2011) Graduation Rates: UHM Lags Behind in Comparison with Similar Universities Four-Six Year Graduation RatesSource: (2011) Retention Rates: UHM Lags Behind in Comparison with Similar Universities Source: (2011) Investigation of Current Academic Policies and Impact on Graduation and Retention Rates at UHM Repeating Passed Courses (Page 16 UHM 2010/11 Catalog) Students may only repeat a course in which they received a grade of C-, D+, D, D-, F, or a NC. Degree credit for a course is given only once. The grade assigned for each repeated course is permanently recorded on the transcript. Grades for all repeated courses will be included in the GPA. Repeating Failed Courses (Page 16 UHM 2010/11 Catalog) Students may repeat, for a letter grade only, any course in which an F was received. If this is done at UH Mānoa, credit hours and grade points for each attempt are included in the GPA. Students may repeat (but not for a letter grade) CR/NC courses in which they received a grade of NC. Current Policy Does Not Allow Students to Repeat Courses in Which They Have Received Grades of C or Higher. In practice, however, students do repeat courses by obtaining instructor over-rides. The second grade f