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Organization, Regulations, and Courses 2024-25


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Final Grades

Whether or not there is a final examination, the instructor submits grades no later than four days after the end of the final examination period, subject to the following stipulations:

  • In those courses in which there is the requirement of a term paper or overall project, but no final examination, instructors may defer the required date for students to submit this work as late into the examination period as they may find convenient, provided that the final grades are nonetheless reported to the Registrar no later than four days after the close of the examination period.
  • If, however, the paper or project is to be submitted prior to the beginning of the examination period, the final grades are to be reported no later than five days after the start of the examination period.
  • For all final examinations scheduled after the Sunday prior to Thanksgiving Day in the fall term, the instructor reports final grades to the Registrar no later than the Wednesday after Thanksgiving Day.
  • For spring term final grades for seniors are to be reported no later than 10:00 a.m. the Thursday prior to Commencement.

Several days thereafter, the Office of the Registrar posts final grades. At that time, students may access their grades on DartHub. Should you wish to learn a grade prior to this you must obtain it from your instructor. By vote of the Faculty every instructor has the obligation to make grades available to the students; the instructor may leave grades with an administrator, ask you to supply a self-addressed postcard, or use any other convenient method that does not violate confidentiality. The Office of the Registrar will not supply these grades; such is done only in the case of standings of Incomplete for which grades have since been assigned.

Final grades are the responsibility of the instructor.

 

Student-Initiated Appeal:

  • A student who questions the appropriateness of a grade confers with the instructor;
  • If the instructor agrees, the instructor makes a written request to the Registrar of the College, with the approval and co-signature of the department/program Chair;
    • The instructor must indicate one or more specific ways in which the student was done an injustice. A simple change of mind will not suffice. 
    • It may not be made on the grounds of course work completed after the term in which the course was offered other than in the case of an official incomplete.
  • If the instructor refuses to make a grade change:
    • The student may appeal, in turn, to the Chair, the Associate Dean of the Faculty for the appropriate division, and the Dean of the Faculty; it is unusual for such appeal to go beyond the Chair. 
  • The student must initiate the appeal to the instructor, in writing, by the last day of the term following that in which the course was taken.
  • The instructor must submit the final grade to the Registrar by the last day of the second term following the term in which the course was taken.
  • If the student has been graduated, only the department/program Chair may initiate a grade change. It must be submitted within one year of the student’s graduation and only in the case of clerical, computational or other similar administrative error.

Instructor-Initiated Grade Change:

  • The Instructor makes a written request to the Registrar of the College, with the approval and co-signature of the department/program Chair;
    • The Instructor must indicate one or more specific ways in which the student was done an injustice. A simple change of mind will not suffice.
    • The Instructor must submit the final grade to the Registrar by the last day of the term following the term in which the course was taken.
    • It may not be made on the grounds of course work completed after the term in which the course was offered other than in the case of an official incomplete.
    • If the Registrar refuses to make the change, the instructor may appeal to the Dean of Faculty.
    • If, however, the student has been graduated, the department/program Chair may initiate a grade change. It must be submitted within one year of the student’s graduation and only in the case of clerical, computational or other similar administrative error.

 

Note:  These procedures also apply to undergraduate courses with the subject TUCK, however where required the Tuck School of Business Dean designates the appropriate Chair equivalent within the Tuck structure.  If the appeal goes further, it proceeds to the Tuck Dean.