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<div class="">I just wanted to bring this to your attention directly. This is from yesterday’s “GradNews”. (If you’re not receiving GradNews every Friday please let me know, as that is the Grad School’s pipeline for getting important information to you).</div>
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<div class=""><span style="caret-color: rgb(32, 32, 32); color: rgb(32, 32, 32);" class=""><span style="font-family: arial, "helvetica neue", helvetica, sans-serif;" class=""><strong class="">Spring 2020 Grades</strong><br class="">
Grades will be awarded according to the standard schedule at the close of the semester. The current grades due date is May 11, 2020.</span></span><span style="caret-color: rgb(32, 32, 32); color: rgb(32, 32, 32); font-size: 16px; background-color: rgb(254, 247, 243);" class=""></span>
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<li class=""><span style="font-size: 12px;" class=""><span style="font-family: arial, "helvetica neue", helvetica, sans-serif;" class="">Students will then have until June 5, 2020 to request a change in their grading rubric from the traditional (A, B or C)
to S (satisfactory) or U (unsatisfactory)</span></span>
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<li class=""><span style="font-size: 12px;" class=""><span style="font-family: arial, "helvetica neue", helvetica, sans-serif;" class="">For masters students, grades of A, B, or C may be changed to an S.</span></span>
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<li class=""><span style="font-size: 12px;" class=""><span style="font-family: arial, "helvetica neue", helvetica, sans-serif;" class="">The grade of S vacates all previous grades for the same course, but does not factor into GPA.</span></span></li></ul>
</li><li class=""><span style="font-size: 12px;" class=""><span style="font-family: arial, "helvetica neue", helvetica, sans-serif;" class="">For doctoral students, grades of A or B may be changed to an S.</span></span>
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<li class=""><span style="font-size: 12px;" class=""><span style="font-family: arial, "helvetica neue", helvetica, sans-serif;" class="">The grade of S vacates all previous grades for the same course, but does not factor into GPA.</span></span></li></ul>
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</li><li class=""><span style="font-size: 12px;" class=""><span style="font-family: arial, "helvetica neue", helvetica, sans-serif;" class="">For Spring 2020 <em class="">only</em>, grades of S (satisfactory) and U (unsatisfactory) will not be factored into institutional
GPA.</span></span></li><li style="text-align: left;" class=""><span style="font-size: 12px;" class=""><span style="font-family: arial, "helvetica neue", helvetica, sans-serif;" class="">Once students have elected to change to the S/U system, students cannot later request a change
to the traditional grading scale.</span></span></li></ul>
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<div class="">Best regards,</div>
<div class="">Matt</div>
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