S73-24 COMPUTING THE GPA FOR "CR" GRADES GIVEN IN GRADUATE COURSES

Legislative History:

Document dated June 20 1973.

At its meeting of May 14, 1973, the Academic Council passed the following policy as presented by Donald Keesey of the Instruction and Research Committee.

ACTION BY UNIVERSITY PRESIDENT:

"Approved". Signed: John H. Bunzel, June 20 1973.

ADDENDUM TO GRADING POLICY

S 73-24

WHEREAS, The California Educational Code requires that all courses on the program for a Master's degree must be completed with a minimum grade point average of 3.0 (B) and thus all coursework on the master's approved program must enter into the gradepoint computation; and

WHEREAS, If the CR grade is understood to be A,B, or C, the computation of the grade point average on the master's program would be open to question unless the CR grade were computed at its lowest possible value; now therefore be it

RESOLVED: That when the CR grade is given for a 200-level course, the CR will mean A or B.

(It is understood that the requirement of letter grades for all courses taken for the major and minor applies at the graduate level, and that the use of CR at the 200-level will thus be almost entirely restricted to 298 and 299, special studies and thesis.)