Due Process For Grade Change

Purpose 

A final grade must remain a professional educational decision made strictly by the faculty member and must have the complete support and backing of the college. The integrity of the college's academic standards depends upon the grading procedures of the individual faculty member. A change of a final grade results from a personal and private appeal from the student to the faculty member.

The following procedures aim to keep the ultimate control of the final grade with the faculty member and to protect the faculty member and the college from requests that do not meet a minimum standard. The baseline of a grade change request should involve unusual and mitigating circumstances to allow the faculty member to reconsider the decision involving a final grade in question. The following conditions and procedures are required for any grade change request.