Grade Appeal - Graduate

Effective Start Date:08/05/2009 End Date:Current

In the graduate catalog, we essentially state there are no grade appeals. That is not entirely true in practice. “if” a student can “clearly” demonstrate a grade miscalculation, we would certainly entertain it. For example, a multiple choice exam and two students have the same answer. One gets it right, the other wrong. Clearly a miscalculation to one of their benefits. Or if a student can show that their grades on various class measures add to a certain final grade, but the faculty entered something lower, again the mathematical argument will likely prevail. If an essay style question where a student believes they covered the salient points of a topic and should get full credit, that will not be entertained. I will not ask faculty to “re-review” exams, papers, and other things to squeeze out another point or two. I trust you can see the difference in the scenarios.

To this end, “if” a student contacts you to ask about a grade appeal, you will now understand the basics of what will be entertained and what won’t. Also, per the catalog, we will never entertain grade appeals that are older than one term. So for students who miss the sigma beta delta cut by .01 of a point, the student who earned their 3rd C and tries to contact a professor from one year ago, etc., that scenario will receive no response or re-review of the material.