It is not dropping deadline , but it is a notice period

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Grading discussion focuses on course-drop deadline; vote set for June 2
STANFORD -- The Faculty Senate is expected this week to endorse a new grading policy that would limit students' ability to shop around for courses until late in the quarter and drop, without penalty, those in which they are not doing well.

The senate on May 26 began discussion about specific provisions of a proposed new policy that would shift add- and drop-deadlines to early in the quarter, reinstitute a failing grade and limit students' ability to retake classe s for higher grades.

Lacking time to complete the debate, the senate agreed to finish consideration of the issue on Thursday, June 2.

In an advisory vote last week, the senate endorsed a fourth-week drop-course deadline and a third-week add-course deadline.

Still up for consideration is a proposal to reinstitute a failing grade, which would be labeled NP - not passed - under the new system. This has generated wide media attention, although students appear far more interested in th e drop-course deadline.

Last week's senate meeting was marked by student complaints about faculty and faculty complaints about students, most of it centering on the drop deadline.

Prior to the meeting, students used electronic mail to faculty and several town meetings to advocate continuation of a liberal drop policy, which, for the last two years, has given them the option of quitting courses without pe nalty on their transcripts up to the day of the final exam.

Of the students who expressed interest in the subject, most were willing to settle for a seventh-week deadline, although some wanted the option of leaving a course during the 10th week of Stanford's 11-week quarter.

In April, the Committee on Academic Appraisal and Achievement, which is proposing the grading changes, suggested shifting both the drop and add deadlines to the third week of the quarter.

Committee Chair Gail Mahood, geological and environmental sciences, told the senate that the committee in May revised its proposal to the fourth week after several meetings with students and receipt of about 100 electronic mess ages.

Discussing student feedback that she and committee members gathered during May, Mahood said that five components of the proposed grading policy received the "lion's share of criticism." They are, in descending order of "frequen cy or ferocity":

Early drop deadlines.
Creation of the W - withdraw - notation, which would appear on a transcript if a student drops a class between the fifth and eighth weeks.
The lack of grandfathering current students.
The course retake policy. http://news-service.stanford.edu/pr/94/940531Arc4233.html
Recording failing grades on the transcript.

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