COLLEGE COMMUNICATIONS

FEBRUARY FACULTY MEETING

The February meeting of the faculty will
be held at 4:30 Tuesday, February 20, in
the auditorium of Frank Strong Hall.

One of the questions before the faculty
has to do with the possibility of offer-
ing short courses for returning veterans,
and the possibility of offering some sort
of recognition, perhaps at the end of the
sophomore year, to students who do good
work but drop out of school without meet-
ing the requirements for a degreee There
will be opportunity in the meeting for
the offering of suggestions by members of
the faculty,

FINAL EXAMINATIONS

The final examination veriod is from Feb-=
ruary 21 to 24 inclusive. Instructors
should be careful to hold their examin-
ations according to the printed examin-~
ation schedule as approved by the Univer-
sity Senate. No department or instructor
is authorized to change the time of any
examination. Occasionally, in the past
when instructors have taken it upon them-
sleves to change the examination schedule,
they have not only been guiltv of violat-
ing regular vrocedures, but have made it
more difficult for some students by put-
ting too many examinations on one day or
by taking the time which a student needs
for preparation for the examinations of
the following day.

DISHONESTY IN EXAMINATIONS

We continue to hear from students that
some instructors do not give adequate
supervision during the examination period.
Even if present, they read a book or a
newspaper and don't see the dishonesty
which is obvious to manys tudents in the
Classroom. Such supervision is not ade=
quate and honest students resent it.
Wijl you please be sure to give your fi-
‘nal examinations adequate supervision,
regardless of the size or personnel of
the classe :

In addition, all special or make-up exam-
 dinat mus thoroughly supervised
o 1 tain our standards and
reputations

 

 

 
 
   
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
 
 
  
 
 
  
  
  
 
 
  
  
 
 
   
   
  
 
 
  
  
 
 
 
  
 
 
 
 
  
 
 
 
 
  
   
 
 
    
   
   
     
   
   
     
 
  

February 19, 1945

FINAL GRADES

It will be a great help to the College
Office and the Registrar if all final
grades are turned in just as soon as pos=
sible after the final examination is giv-
ene In addition, please report all faile
ures and incompletes on the red and blue
cards not later than 9 o'clock Tuesday
morning, February 27+ Red cards should
be made out also for those who withdrew
with feilures during the semestere

CORRECT GRADE

The correct grade for a student who with-
drew during the semester with a failure is
not a "WD", but an "F". Only students who
withdrew with an homoreble withdrawal should —
be reported as "WD" on the final grade sheet

ADVISING

It is very obvious that this semester's
students, especially the Freshmen and Soph-
omores, have had much more contact with
their advisers than formerly. The pre-e
enrollment advising period of last week
brought large numbers of students to their
advisers anc many problems which are nore
mally left for enrollment day have already
been disposed ofs

Both gtudents and adyisers of freshmen and
sovhomores feel that the reporting of un-
satisfactory grades in the case of freshe
men and sophomores at the end of the first
four weeks of the semester has shown the
wisdom of the plane We are very sure that
many students were materially helped by the
early check-up with their advisers.

Freshmen end sophomores with any unsatis-=
factory revorts at the end of four weeks
were asked to confer with their adviserse
Nearly all of the students reported for
conferencese The few who failed to go were
called to the office for an interviews
Then, after mid-semester reports were re=
ceived, all freshmen and sophomores were
instructed to report to their advisers
for conferences. At this time all but
34% of the girls revorted, while 15% of
the men failed to appears Again those
students who failed to report for con-
ferences were called to the office for
interviews.