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Committees
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grade gripes
by Adella Wacker
If you get a "C" for a class grade and think you deserved a
"B" but you're instructor Isn't buying It, there's not a whole
lot to be done beside talking to the instructor again.
However, if you can prove he decided grades by throwing
darts, that's material the grading appeals committees can work
with.
According to the Student in the Academic Community
document approved 1968, the faculty of each college or
department should provide an appeal committee of faculty
and students. Some committees take different forms than
others.
Ideally the misunderstanding will I be settled at the
student-instructor level and susally students have already
talked to instructors according to English appeals committee
member Robert Hough. The committee will then "see if
there's any grounds for a reconsideration," he said.
There's a fine line of distinction between a matter of
judgement and unfairness, and department and college level
appeal committees don't want to cross it, Hough said.
' Hough gave one example of a student taking a class
pass-fail, a conscientious student, he said, who believed her
work on an oral report deserved better consideration toward
her final mark.
The oral report wasn't what the instructor has In mind, but
he compromised, said Hough, admitting that he hadn't made
class requirements clear.
According to Charles Miller, Dean of Business College, there
had been "very few" complaints to Business College appeals
committees. The college has one department committee for
economics and another for the other four business
departments.
"We've never had anything that even bordered on a serious
case," he said.
Hough said there never has been a case during his term on
the committee that it didn't uphold the instructors.
The cases that are appealed beyond the department to the
college committee "seem to be increasing some" according to
John J. Scholz, chemistry professor and chairman of the Arts
and Sciences Grading Appeals Committee.
He said his five-member committee handled four appeals
last semester. By, : the time cases go that far they become
rather serious, he said.
But "more than once," he said, the committee has ruled
against the department and the instructor since he was elected ,
to the committee in 1969.
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