Building an Academic Career: Requirements, Policies
and Special Opportunities
The traditional letter grades "A" through "F" may
be assigned alone, or with a plus or a minus.
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A+= 4.0 honor points; A = 4.0; A- = 3.7
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B+ = 3.3; B = 3.0; B- = 2.7
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C+ = 2.3; C = 2.0; C- = 1.7
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D+ = 1.3; D = 1.0; D- = .7
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F = 0.0
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CR = 0.0 Credit; while a CR grade designation is equivalent to a grade of C or better, courses with CR grades are not computed into the Grade Point Average (GPA). A CR may be given ONLY for an approved Credit/No Credit course, and for AWPE activities courses.
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NCR = No Credit Earned; this grade appears on a student's transcript but is not computed in the student's GPA.
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The Credit/No Credit option is available with the consent of the instructor, academic adviser and the Registrar. Students must petition requesting to complete a course for Credit/No Credit by the first Friday after the close of registration.
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The F grade is included in computing the GPA and is averaged into the GPA as 0. The former NP is no longer a grading option.
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The I or Incomplete is reserved for students who submitted an Incomplete petition and whose petition was approved by the Associate Academic Dean.
NOTE: Incomplete petitions should be sent to the Registrar's
Office. Incompletes are available to students who have experienced
a medical emergency or some other circumstance beyond their control that
prevented them from completing coursework. The Incomplete is not appropriate
for students who have not managed to complete coursework in a timely manner.
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The M grade is assigned to a student whose work is somehow implicated in a breach of academic integrity. For example, if a teacher is grading papers the week after graduation and discovers two identical papers, then the teacher should assign M grades to those papers. Once the truth about their integrity has been established (which might be delayed until Fall Semester), the teacher submits a final grade for the work. Teachers must notify the Associate Academic Dean before assigning an M grade.
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The NG (No Grade) is reserved for those occasions when teachers
find they are missing a piece of work from a student, which
they believe the student did, in fact, submit. The NG serves
as a placeholder on the student's transcript until the teacher
has figured out what happened to the work and is prepared to
give the student a final grade. The NG is NOT intended for
students who missed the Incomplete deadline or for students
who have missed deadlines for submitting work. Faculty members
must convert all NGs to final grades by the end of the semester
following the semester in which the NG was given. An unconverted
NG automatically is recorded as an F or failing grade.
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The RT (Retake) indicates that a course has been retaken.
