Draft resolution grade forgiveness

Whereas the University of Delaware has a policy that allows students to repeat classes the GPA is calculated by averaging all grades received for the class.

And

Whereas many students find their first year in college difficult and often find themselves lacking the background in some of their courses

And

Whereas a the University of Delaware is committed to creating an environment that supports academic rigor, exploration and flexibility .

Be it therefore resolved that:

Undergraduate students who received a grade of C+ or worse in a course they took within their first 27/28 credits or in their first semester at the University of Delaware will be allowed to repeat up to two classes (not to exceed 8 credits), with only the second grade being used to calculate their GPA, with the original grade remaining on the transcript.

Grade Forgiveness UCF

Grade forgiveness is limited to two courses during the student’s post-secondary career. Requests must be submitted no later than the Withdrawal deadline for the term in which the student has registered for the course being repeated.

Grade Forgiveness Policy

Effective Fall Semester, 1981, an undergraduate student may repeat a course and have the repeated grade computed in their GPA in place of the original grade. The student must, however, first understand the following conditions of the policy:

1. Grade forgiveness is limited to two courses.
2. Grade forgiveness may not be used twice for the same course.
3. Grade forgiveness will only be awarded if the original and repeated courses are taken at UCF.
4. All grades will remain on the student’s official transcript. The original course grade will be annotated with a T to indicate that the course has subsequently been repeated and the repeat course grade will be annotated with a R. The original grade will always appear on the transcript but only the repeated course grade will be calculated into the GPA.
5. If it is determined that the student is ineligible for the grade forgiveness, neither refunds nor automatic withdrawal from the course will be made.
6. If a student applies for grade forgiveness and later withdraws, receives an Incomplete I grade or no credit NC grade in the course, the attempt will count as one of the allotted Grade Forgiveness attempts and the GPA will calculate both grades.
7. UCF does not honor grade forgiveness granted at other institutions unless it is part of an AA degree transferred from a Florida public community college or university.
8. Due to the two-course limit, a student who has repeated two or more courses at a Florida public community college or university and included those courses in the transfer of an AA degree will not be granted any grade forgiveness at UCF.
9. Grade forgiveness awarded for repeated courses will not retroactively alter any previous academic action (i.e. academic probation or disqualification). In addition, no academic records can be altered after a student graduates.
10. Grade forgiveness is not retroactive and, therefore, may not be used for a course repeated before Fall 1981. If a student who repeated a course at UCF before 1981 and did not use the previous forgiveness policy may repeat the course again. In this case, the lower of the previous two grades will be forgiven. This special circumstance is the only one in which a student will be allowed to repeat a course more than once.
11. A student may substitute a course different from the original one with prior approval from the Dean’s office in which the course is offered. This request may be approved if
1. the substitute course has been changed in prefix, number, hours or title but not in substance or
2. the substitute course replaces a course no longer offered by UCF.

Effective Fall 2011, the Grade Forgiveness Policy will be replaced with
the Grade Replacement Policy.

Northern Colorado

Grade Forgiveness is a program that offers undergraduate students the opportunity to repeat a course and have the original grade not calculated in the cumulative grade point average. To be eligible for grade forgiveness, fully admitted undergraduate students must submit an application to the Registrar's Office before the grade is posted at the end of the semester in which the course is re-taken. The following guidelines are used for Grade Forgiveness:

• A course may only be eligible for grade forgiveness if the highest previous grade for the course was "C-" or lower. A course is not eligible if it was successfully completed or retaken with a grade of "C" or higher.
• Course substitutions are not eligible for Grade Forgiveness (ex: Math 124 for Math 175).
• Only undergraduate UNC courses numbered 100-499 are eligible for grade forgiveness.
• Grade forgiveness can only be applied once per course for a maximum of four (4) courses, not to exceed 12 credits during your academic career.
• Both the original and the second attempt of an individual course will be recorded on your transcript, but only the more recent grade will be calculated into the cumulative grade point average.
• If you enroll and receive a mark (grade) of "W" or "UW" in the second attempt of a course, that enrollment counts as the grade forgiveness opportunity and the original grade will stand.
• Credits earned are used only once to fulfill graduation requirements.
• Receiving a letter grade can only replace such a grade in the cumulative GPA with another letter grade. (ex. If a course changes grade mode, was pass/fail now A-F graded, it is no longer eligible for grade forgiveness).
• Applications after the grade has been posted must be signed by your advisor.
• Approved, repeatable courses, such as SES activity courses, clinicals, research seminars and selected topics, are not eligible for grade forgiveness.
• At the discretion of the instructor, a student who received a grade of "C-" or lower in a course due to academic dishonesty may not qualify for grade forgiveness in that course.
• If you have been granted "fresh start" you are not eligible for Grade Forgiveness.

Independent Study (Correspondence) Courses retaken for Grade Forgiveness must meet the same registration, drop and course completion deadlines as an on-campus class would for the semester the course is repeated.

If you plan to transfer to another academic institution or plan to apply for graduate school in the future, you should be aware that other institutions may include both grades in the calculation of your GPA for admission to their institution.

Grade Forgiveness ODU

The Grade Forgiveness Policy
Under the GFP, undergraduate students seeking baccalaureate degrees may improve their grade point average (GPA) by repeating a course taken previously. The repeated course:

• must be the same course as taken previously
• must be completed at Old Dominion University
• may be repeated only ONCE with grade forgiveness applied.

The Grade Forgiveness Policy (GFP) became effective for the Fall 1997 semester. Courses repeated prior to the Fall 1997 semester are not eligible for grade forgiveness.  Complete information on this policy is available in the University Catalog.

Application of Grade Forgiveness
It is not necessary to apply for grade forgiveness. The Registrar automatically applies the GFP to all eligible course repeats at the end of each semester, including the Summer session, after all grades are posted. Grade forgiveness will not be processed after a student graduates.

Conditions Applying to Grade Forgiveness (updated 4/2/2009)

• Effective with the Fall 2009 semester, students may use grade forgiveness for up to five courses during enrollment at the University.
• Grade forgiveness is only applied to a course if you received a grade of C-, D+, D, D-, F, or WF the first time you took the course.
• Under the GFP, only the second grade earned, whether higher or lower than the original grade, will be calculated in the GPA for the purposes of continuance, graduation, etc. Any repeats of a course after grade forgiveness has been applied will be averaged with other course work. 
• Student transcripts will continue to list all courses taken and the grades received. Courses for which grade forgiveness has been applied are indicated by a "/" following the grade letter.
• An enhanced GPA using the GFP determines eligibility for continuance and graduation, but does not determine eligibility for graduation with honors or Dean's List. Academic suspensions will not be removed from student transcripts, and Dean's List status will not be added after use of the GFP. GPA calculation for Latin honors (at graduation) reflects the student's complete academic record, including courses that have been forgiven. If the student's overall GPA is sufficient, graduation with honors will be posted to the student's record. For more information on Latin honors, see Graduation Procedures.
• Students may elect to use both the GFP and the Adjusted Resident Credit (ARC) policy. However, students cannot use the GFP for individual courses for which they have already used the ARC policy.

South Carolina

Beginning with the Fall 2007 semester, it is the policy of the University of South Carolina that every currently enrolled fully-admitted, degree-seeking undergraduate earning a “D+”, “D”, “F” or “WF” in a USC course may take up to two (2) undergraduate courses for a second time for the purpose of grade forgiveness. Both the first and second grades shall appear on the USC permanent record, but only the second grade will be used in computing the University of South Carolina cumulative grade point average. An explanatory notice will appear on the record. Once grade forgiveness is applied to a repeated course, the action may not be revoked. Eligible students wishing to apply the course grade forgiveness policy to a course enrollment may do so at any time during his/her undergraduate enrollment, but no applications will be honored after the degree is awarded. Grade forgiveness can only be applied once per course for a maximum of two courses (not to exceed 8 credits) on a student’s undergraduate academic record, without regard to the number of degrees sought. Under the grade forgiveness policy, the forgiven and repeated class must both be taken at the same USC campus. Courses transferred from other institutions are excluded from this policy. This policy does not preclude students from repeating classes multiple times, in accordance with program requirements, but only the second attempt at the class may forgive the original grade of D+, D, F, or WF. Only a regular letter grade can replace a forgiven grade. Grades of “W”, “I”, “S”, “U”, or “AUDIT” may not replace previous grades. Grades carrying an honor code violation sanction of “X” are not eligible for grade forgiveness.

Forgiveness Policy UAB

UAB offers the undergraduate student a forgiveness option by which courses taken at UAB may be repeated at UAB, and the grade for the first course will be excluded from the calculation of his/her grade point average (GPA).

Only courses for which the student has received a grade of C, D, or F may be repeated under this option.

The forgiveness policy may be used a maximum of four (4) times, only once for any course, which allows a student to use the forgiveness for four different courses.

The transcript will show both the original grade and the course repeat grade, but only the grade points and credit hours earned in the repeated courses will be counted toward degree completion and averaged into the student’s GPA.

Once a course grade is declared forgiven, the decision is irrevocable. (The forgiveness policy can be invoked at any time for a repeated course; however, all forgiveness requests must be made prior to application for degree.) It is the student’s responsibility to notify the Office of Registration and Academic Records of his/her applying the forgiveness policy to a repeated course. The process is not automatic.

The Forgiveness Policy can only be applied to grades earned at UAB. Transfer GPA will be calculated on all grades earned at other institution(s).

Freshman Forgiveness- OHIO State ( A&S)

If you receive a D+, D, or E (including grades of EN) in a course or courses during your freshman year (before you have earned 45 credit hours) you may retake the course, and the first grade will be dropped from your cumulative grade point average (the record of the original grade will remain on your transcript). You may retake the course only once, and you must retake it before you earn 90 hours. If you earn a worse grade the second time around, that grade counts, not the higher grade, and if you earn an E in place of a D or D+, you will lose credit for the course. You can use the forgiveness rule for up to 15 credit hours. It is best to retake the course(s) as early as possible. Please note that hours of examination (EM) credit do not count in calculating earned hours for purposes of the Freshman Forgiveness Rule; however, transfer credit hours do count. Keep in mind that if you are considering applying to graduate or professional schools, or even to other colleges at Ohio State, all of your grades will be considered (including those forgiven under the Freshman Forgiveness Rule) in the admissions process, and the other unit may recalculate the original grade(s) into your cumulative GPA.

UNIV of Maryland

4.  The grade point average will include all attempts at a given course that result in a grade of A+, A, A-, B+, B, B-, C+, C, C-, D+, D, D-, or F. However, to help freshmen and transfer students adjust to the University of Maryland, College Park, the following two exceptions allow for the cumulative GPA to be calculated so that only the higher grade is included:             

a. When the repeated course was taken within the students first semester at University of Maryland, College Park, or            

b.  When the repeated course was taken within the students first 24 credit hours attempted (including transfer credits) or within the semester during which the student reached the 24th credit hour attempted. Advanced Placement Exam credits do not count toward the 24 credit count.

5. Any grade earned in prior attempts of a repeated course will appear on the student's transcript, regardless of whether the grade is dropped from, or included in, the cumulative grade point average.      

6. Repeat by transfer: If a student repeats by transfer a course that was taken before or during the semester in which the student reached 24 credits attempted (including transfer credits) and the transfer grade is higher, then the original grade in the course will be excluded from the GPA calculation.