| Module 1: College Advising
Academic Policies and Procedures Grade Changes or Appeals
An instructor that has mistakenly assigned a student the wrong grade or needs to adjust a grade from an ‘I’ (Incomplete) to another grade may do so by filling out a Change of Grade Form available via the Records Office website at www.mtsu.edu/~records/changeofgrade.pdf The following information is pertinent if a student would like to appeal their grade received in a course: Level One - Student appeals concerning a course grade should be resolved by conference between the student and the faculty member who assigned the grade. The appeal must occur within forty (40) days of the graduation date for each term.
- In the event of an impasse between the student and the faculty member, a student with an appeal of a grade shall discuss it with the department chair within ten (10) days of the conference with the involved faculty member. The department chair shall investigate the circumstances, record his/her findings, and send a copy to the student and the faculty member within ten (10) days of the notification of impasse. Although the department chair does not have the power to change the grade, he/she will make a recommendation concerning the appeal. These findings will become a part of the appeals record.
Level Two - If the student is not satisfied, he/she may, within fifteen (15) days following receipt of the department chair’s recommendation, refer the appeal plus all relevant data including stated reasons why he/she believes the appeal has thus far not been satisfied. The associate provost shall select a college committee to hear the appeal and transmit the appeal documents to the committee chair or to the office of the dean of the college which houses the selected appeals committee.
- The committee hearing the appeal will receive documents and testimony regarding the circumstances, will record its findings, and shall render a decision. Notification of the committee’s decision will be made to the student, faculty member, department chair, college dean, associate provost for Academic Affairs, and the director of Records.
- The decision of the committee hearing the appeal will be final concerning the grade in question.
Miscellaneous - The number of days indicated at each level above shall be considered the maximum, but every effort should be made to expedite the process.
- The failure of the student to proceed from one level of the appeal procedure to the next level within the prescribed time limits shall be deemed to be an acceptance of the recommendations and/or decision previously rendered. All further considerations and proceedings regarding that particular appeal shall cease at that point.
- A grade appeal may be withdrawn at any level without prejudice.
- All appeal proceedings shall be kept as confidential as may be appropriate at each level.
- A grade appeals committee shall have reasonable access to all official records for information necessary to the determination of a recommendation.
Retrieved from 2004 MTSU Undergraduate Catalog, 51
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