COLLEGE COMMUNICATIONS

THE OLD SEMESTER

Will you please help us by carefully
reading and following the procedures
listed below, having to do with the

reporting of grades:

1. Since all failures and incompletes
must be transcribed before enrollment,
it is very important that we have the
advance failure reports (red cards) and
also the advance incomplete reports
(blue cards) on file in this office

not later than twenty-four hours after
each examination, if possible. In any
case, we feel we must have all failure
reports in the office not later than
Friday, January 29, The cards are
obtainable at the departmental offices.

2. Be sure to turn in red cards £oOP
those students also who have withdrawn
with a@ failure during the semester,

3. Please indicate the. amount of the
incomplete, such as $ hour orl hour,
on the incomplete cards,

4, In order to administer the regula—
tions on classification and amount of
work allewed, it is necessary to have a
complete record of all grades at enroll-
ment time. We trust all your grades,
therefore, will be in before Sunday.
Failure to do this forces us to send
students to you during enrollment to find
out their grades, thus bothering you

and slowing up enrollment,

THE NEW SEMESTER

Please note carefuily that enrollment
for the spring semester will be on
Monday and Tuesday, February 1 and 2,
instead of on Tuesday and Wednesday.
And each morning we will start promptly
at 86:30, . We cordially invite all who
help with enrollment to meet us at
Robinson Gymnasium at that time,

INC OMPLETES

Students with Incompletes are not to be
reinrolled in the entire course, If any
wish to do so, refer them to the dean.

BELIEVE IT OR NOT}

we didn't have a faculty meeting in
January because we didn't feel there was
enough business before us to warrant
calling one. Any objections? If we
promise not to have unnecessary meetings,
will you promise to attend all the
necessary ones?

Jenvuary 22, 1937.

MAY WE SUGGEST

1, » That the only value of a plus or a
Minus attached to a grade is in the
instructor's mind, since they are never
recorded by the registrar nor in our
office, . Yet some instructors seem to
feel that they are not giving so many
A'ts if a minus is attached to a few of
them, and that they are not really pass-~
ing a student if they sive him a De,

2. That we are grading pretty liberally
when 50 per cent of our grades in the
College are A's and B's, Here are the
catalog definitions of these grades:

"The letter A is reserved for work of
marked excellence,"

 

“The letter B indicates very good work
of much more than average quality."

Can half of our students be doing work of
"much more than average quality"? To
our mind there should be a distinct
increase in the percentage of C's at

the expense of the A's and B's,

3. That all members of the faculty
should remember that our rules forbid the
changing of any reported final grade ex-
cept on the discovery of a clerical error,
And we must interpret "clerical" as not
including an error of judgment,

OH! HOW WE WISH

1. That instructors would stop telling
students they are willing to admit them
to their classes without the prerequi-

sites, if only the dean would agree.

2. That instructors would stop telling
students they would be willing to give
them another final examination or let
them do some extre work in order to
raise the grade, if only the dean would
agree,

3, That instructors would stop telling
students they would be willing to raise
& final grade from a Dt to a Ce, if only
the dean would agree,

4, That the dean could find some way of
doing what all the faculty and all the
students want him to do about everything,

5. That for each of you the coming
semester will be the happiest and most
profitable one of your life,