Date Passed Senate:____19 October 1999_______
Date of ESU President's
Approval:		___27 October 1999_____

FSB 99001
Revision of Graduate Midterm Grade Requirement

Date of 1st Reading:__5 October 1999____

Date of 2nd Reading:__19 October 1999___
(with corrections from Senate meeting on October 5)

Senate Sponsor:Academic Affairs Committee
Zane Swanson, Chair


Proposed Amendment
  1. Purpose:
    1. This bill will allow instructors the option of providing midterm grades to graduate students when it is meaningful and appropriate.

  2. Discussion Points:
    1. This issue did not arise from the need or desire for graduate students to have mid-term grades. The students are more mature; the classes are small and the format provides more opportunities for feedback; the students have a greater capability to self-assess their work and grades.
    2. There is a concern that little value is added for extra effort of mailing and designating mid-term grades for graduates.
    3. Grades of "U" & "S" may be more appropriate because graduate student work is typically a work-in-progress.
    4. Graduate assignments are often fewer and more lengthy, which provides less tangible evidence for a grade.
    5. The Graduate Council's expressed opinion is that midterm grades are unnecessary.

  3. Previous Senate Action: FSB98007, Policy on Drop-Add, Withdrawal , & Midterm Grading.

  4. Definition of Terms: None.

  5. Bill: Attached
Policy on Drop-Add, Withdrawal , & Midterm Grading

Revise the FSB 98007 sentences that read:
Each instructor shall, by the end of the seventh week of each regular semester, evaluate student progress and send to the registrar's office a midterm grade for each undergraduate and graduate student enrolled in the class. This grade shall be made available to undergraduate and graduate students by the registrar's office as soon as possible.

To:
Each instructor shall, by the end of the seventh week of each regular semester, evaluate undergraduate students' progress and send to the registrar's office a midterm grade for each undergraduate student enrolled in the class. An instructor teaching a graduate-level course has the option of evaluating by the end of the seventh week of each regular semester all of the graduate students in the course. For this purpose, the instructor can assign graduate students a grade as appropriate for the course. The instructor who is teaching a graduate-level course and who chooses to give a seventh-week evaluation shall send to the registrar's office a midterm grade for each graduate student enrolled in the course. These midterm grades shall be made available to undergraduate and graduate students by the registrar's office as soon as possible.

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