At 01:25 PM 5/8/97 +0000, you wrote:
>Hi again,
>
>I am going to have a busy summer with the committes I signed up for, so I hope
>you can help on this topic as well.
>
>We have been discussing a problem with the graduation requirement of a GPA of
>2.0. A student with a C- average would not be able to graduate without
>permission of the Academic Dean. We have been discussing changing the
>requirement to 1.75. I have concerns about lowering requirements but I also
>agree with the Dean that the students who have worked hard to overcome one bad
>semester are caught by this requirement.
>
>Weighting the first semester would help many of these students, but if the poor
>grades come in one of the other three a weighting system would not help.
>
>Since a 2.0 seems to be the normal graduation requirement, does anyone else run
>into this problem? If so, what do you do?
>
>Thanks,
>
>Carol Lerch
>
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Sharon Smith
Augusta Technical Institute
3116 Deans Bridge Road
Augusta, GA 30906
Math Instructor
Isa 43:1-3
email ssmith@augusta.tec.ga.us
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