Assistant Dean
Grade Change Policy

"A grade change may be submitted by your instructor to correct an error on a Supplementary Grade Report which the instructor obtains from their department office. The request must be accompanied by a formal explanation by the faculty member in charge of the course outlining the circumstances surrounding the original error and justifying the grade change" (Faculty Code B5.07).

The Academic Standards Board cannot approve any Supplementary Grade Report for a grade change when "extra work is submitted", "student rewrote a paper", "student retook the final" or another special arrangement unless the instructor is able to provide the Board with a statement that the arrangement giving this one student the opportunity to raise his/her grade was an arrangement available to and known by every student in the course. If the grade is being changed because the work was submitted after grades were due and no "incomplete" grade was originally given, the grade will be posted with and "I" as long as the work was completed during the incomplete deadline period.

When the instructor is changing a grade from "incomplete", they must include the date the student submitted their completed work. Even if the course has lapsed to E the grade can still be approved for posting if the work completed by the student was within the incomplete deadline date or the extended deadline date.

Grade Grievance Procedures

"The Office of Student Academic Affairs (formerly the LS&A Administrative Board) shall insure that each department has an efficient procedure for dealing with student complaints regarding alleged unfair or improper grading, and shall insure that these procedures are followed in individual cases."

— Faculty Code A.205, 1984 edition

Grade appeals for departments without links listed below should be referred to the Chair of the Department in question.

 

Afroamerican and African Studies Grade Grievance Procedures
American Culture Grade Grievance Procedures
Anthropology Grade Grievance Procedures

Grade Grievance Procedures for the Program in Armenian Studies

Grade Grievance Procedures for the Program in Applied Physics

Asian Languages and Cultures Grade Grievance Procedures
Astronomy Grade Grievance Procedures
Biology Grade Grievance Procedures
Chemistry Grade Grievance Procedures

Grade Grievance Procedures for the Center for Chinese Studies

Classical Studies Grade Grievance Procedures

Grade Grievance Procedures for Courses in College Honors

Communication Studies Grade Grievance Procedures

Grade Grievance Procedures for the Department of Comparative Literature

Grade Grievance Procedures for the Center for the Study of Complex Systems

Grade Grievance Procedures for the Comprehensive Studies Program

Grade Grievance Procedures for the Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology

Economics Grade Grievance Procedures
English Language and Literature Grade Grievance Procedures

Grade Grievance Procedures for the English Language Institute

Grade Grievance Procedures for Geography

Geological Sciences Grade Grievance Procedures
Germanic Languages and Literatures Grade Grievance Procedures
History Grade Grievance Procedures
History of Art Grade Grievance Procedures

Grade Grievance Procedures for the Institute for the Humanities

Grade Grievance Procedures for the Center for International and Comparative Studies

Grade Grievance Procedures for the Office of International Programs

Grade Grievance Procedures for the Center for Japanese Studies

Grade Grievance Procedures for the Frankel Center for Judaic Studies

Grade Grievance Procedures for the Program in Latin American and Caribbean Studies

Linguistics Grade Grievance Procedures

Grade Grievance Procedures for the Center for  Macromolecular Science and Engineering

Mathematics Grade Grievance Procedures
Middle Eastern and North African Studies Grade Grievance Procedures

Grade Grievance Procedures for the Department of Molecular, Cellular, and Developmental Biology

Grade Grievance Procedures for Museum Methods 

Grade Grievance Procedures for the Museum Practice Program

Near Eastern Studies Grade Grievance Procedures

Grade Grievance Procedures for the Program in Organizational Studies

Philosophy Grade Grievance Procedures
Physics Grade Grievance Procedures
Political Science Grade Grievance Procedures

Grade Grievance Procedures for the Population Studies Center

Psychology Grade Grievance Procedures
Romance Languages and Literatures Grade Grievance Procedures
Russian and East European Studies Grade Grievance Procedures
Screen Arts and Cultures Grade Grievance Procedures
Slavic Languages and Literatures Grade Grievance Procedures
Sociology Grade Grievance Procedures

Grade Grievance Procedures for the Center for South Asian Studies

Grade Grievance Procedures for the Center for Southeast Asian Studies

Statistics Grade Grievance Procedures

Grade Grievance Procedures for Survey Methodology

Grade Grievance Procedures for the Sweetland Writing Center

University Courses Grade Grievance Procedures
Women's Studies Grade Grievance Procedures
Grade Grievance Procedures for the College of Engineering *