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Cabinet accepts grade changes
By Josie Klemaier
jklemaie@mscd.edu

   A committee of students, faculty and financial aid office employees to research the effects of a Plus/Minus grading policy at Metro was established March 13 by Metro’s president’s cabinet, said Metro faculty senate president, Hal Nees.
   The committee will look at the positive and negative effects of the policy before making its recommendation to the president’s cabinet on whether or not to adopt the policy.
   Plus/Minus grading would allow faculty members to apply a plus or minus to a letter grade that would be worth varying grade points.
   “ Faculty could chose to give their students
a flat letter grade or one with a plus or minus,” Nees said about the options outlined in the original proposal to the faculty senate.
   Metro’s faculty senate voted 33 to 25 on March 1 to put the Plus/Minus grading policy up for campus review.
   Student Government Assembly President
Jack Wylie was at the president’s cabinet meeting on Monday and asked Nees to have the committee include students, he said.
   ” My opinion on it is that it should not be optional. I think we should have a very strict grading policy,” Wylie said.
   However, a change like that would require the policy to go through another approval process, Wylie said.
Vice President of Student Services and Dean of Student Life Karen Raforth was at the president’s cabinet Monday and said there are many questions that need to be answered and issues that need to be addressed.
   “ The important thing to notice here is that a C-minus grade would put a student on academic probation,” she said.
   SGA Speaker of the Senate Jesse Samora said this policy would be good for Metro’s accreditation, because many other schools across the country use the plus/minus grading system.

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