On 4 Jan2006, at 12:30 PM, Rick Froman wrote:
My initial inquiry regarding this issue (before I was late)
revealed that there are a number of deadlines facing the registrar
between the fall and spring semesters that do not apply to the end
of the spring semester. For example, academic probations and
suspensions have to be determined before school starts again on
Jan. 9. This process involves determining GPAs, sending letters to
students, scheduling appeals, etc. before the semester starts.
There is also the additional concern of determining athletic
eligibility for our basketball teams which begin playing soon after
the semester begins. If they play a game with an academically
ineligible student, they forfeit that game. So there are reasons
(at least at JBU) for the need for grades to be submitted in a
timely way (beyond courtesy to students who are interested in their
final grades). After seeing the deadlines imposed at other places,
I can see that I am in good company. But I still don't understand
why the time to grade keeps getting smaller even when we have gone
to submitting our grades online. That should certainly save the
registrar's office a lot of work over the old days when we turned
them in on paper (not even bubble sheets)
Rick
I agree with Rick's assessment of the various tasks that must be
completed between Fall and Spring (as we call them); however, here is
how our schedule goes at the end of the Spring semester.
Classes end 4/28
Final exams 5/1 - 5/4
Final grades due Noon 5/8 (my birthday, by the way)
Graduation 5/9
Summer Session I begins 5/10.
And, technically, records of all students who believe they are going
to graduate must be checked and verified to see if they are going to
receive their diploma or just be allowed to walk across the stage,
and those who intend to take summer classes are subject to the same
policies as those who are moving from Fall to Spring -- and we have
been submitting grades electronically for only 2 years. It was a
paper sheet before that.
"As governor of Texas, I have set high standards for our public
schools, and I have met those standards.
George W. Bush -- CNN online chat; August 30, 2000
Dr. Bob Wildblood
Lecturer in Psychology
Indiana University Kokomo
2300 S Washington St
PO Box 9003
Kokomo, IN 46904-9003
765-455-9483
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