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Medieval and Renaissance Collegium (MARC)

(as of September 1, 1986)

Since MARC is a program without its own teachers, or with only occasional teachers, the procedures will need to be left ad hoc in each case. However, the following procedures will apply:

  1. Our basic assumption is that the course instructor has the final word as to course grade.
  2. In case of Grade Appeal, grieving students of MARC will be informed by the MARC director as to the grounds upon which a course grade can be changed.
  3. Those grounds will be determined in each individual case by a committee composed of the MARC director, the instructor, and one representative of the instructor's department (the Chair or his/her representative).
  4. The MARC office will review a case up to the end of the semester following the semester during which the grade was given. If the grade was given during the Fall term, the review will be conducted before the end of the Winter term. If the grade was given during the Winter term, the review will be conducted before the end of the Fall term. After the end of the semester following the semester during which the grade was given, the MARC office will be under NO obligation to review the case (except in exceptional cases).
  5. The MARC director will handle the preliminary review of a grade complaint and appoint a committee if the grievance cannot be solved by him and by the instructor who gave the grade.
  6. If a committee of review is appointed, one MARC concentrator will be asked to sit on the case.
  7. If the instructor who has given the grade is not on campus, the MARC director will determine, with the instructor's Chair, what course of action to take and the student will be informed of that decision promptly.
  8. If a review committee recommends that a course grade be raised, and if the instructor is either unreachable or refuses to follow the recommendation, or if the committee believes that the student should receive some kind of accommodation - short of recommending that the course grade be changed - the review committee could and should pursue other actions which the student might find acceptable through Assistant Dean E. W. Nissen's office, 1402 Mason Hall. Such actions include, but are not limited to changing the grading basis from letter grade to pass/fail or vice versa, or retroactively withdrawing the student from the course, or granting an extension of time to re-do a paper or final examination.
  9. When a decision has been made, a letter will be sent by the MARC office to the student and a copy sent to the course instructor and to his/her Chair as well as to the office of the Assistant Dean for Student Academic Affairs, 1402 Mason Hall.

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