Well, the semester is winding down for me. All of my marks are in and approved. [Angelina: your mark is in.] Relatively few students are complaining about their marks. There are a few with inflated senses of their accomplishments, but it’s pretty quiet.
I have a few more sets of grades to approve, and a few last meetings, but it’s all pretty much over.
I had a discipline hearing today. I was on the board; it wasn’t a CMPT case. It was a serious case that they have been trying to schedule the hearing since May. The end result was the harshest I have seen: upheld department’s Fs, retroactive removal of degree, student must surrender parchment, 9 semester suspension, permanent notation on transcript. This was considered somewhat lenient.
Kat should be hitting YVR tomorrow at about 21:00, so that’s good.
After that, it’s all food and drink until the new year.
Edit: On the subject of complaining about marks… What goes on in a student’s mind to get 74.6%, and then ask if 75% is the cutoff for the next letter grade, and shouldn’t that be rounded up? Do students really think some spreadsheet has a roundoff error just for them? If I had wanted the cutoff at 74.5%, that’s where I would have put it. There are 180 students, so some of them are going to be close to boundaries no matter what I do.
December 19th, 2007 at 10:41 am
Holly Crap! What did the student do kill the professor?
December 19th, 2007 at 11:01 am
So wait, hold on. Does that mean that they have to do more courses to get the degree back, or is it permanently gone and they can’t get it back?
Either way… DUMB on their part.
December 19th, 2007 at 1:22 pm
After 9 semesters, the student can come back and take the one course to re-graduate.
December 19th, 2007 at 1:29 pm
According to GoSFU, my raking 5 classes experiment was actually possible after all. That is, except for the course I’ve worried about all semester, which hasn’t submitted grades yet. 😐
January 18th, 2008 at 12:05 pm
My grade was apt, I say. APT!
(Says she who is catching up on backlog’d feeds.)
March 28th, 2008 at 11:38 am
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