<div dir="ltr">Dear Colleagues:<div><br></div><div>In the next meeting of the UH Undergraduate Committee (UC) on March 23, the following "Undergraduate grade replacement" or grade forgiveness policy is coming up for a vote. If approved by the UC, it will almost certainly become a part of the 2016-17 UH Undergraduate Catalog.</div><div><br></div><div>The summary of the proposal is this:</div><div><br></div><blockquote style="margin:0px 0px 0px 40px;border:none;padding:0px"><div><span style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:sans-serif,Arial,Verdana,'Trebuchet MS';font-size:13px;line-height:19.5px">The attached proposal would modify the University of Houston undergraduate catalog to allow students to repeat up to 12 credits worth of courses taken at the University of Houston and have those later attempts replace the original grade when calculating a student’s GPA.</span></div><div><span style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:sans-serif,Arial,Verdana,'Trebuchet MS';font-size:13px;line-height:19.5px"><br></span></div></blockquote><font color="#333333" face="sans-serif, Arial, Verdana, Trebuchet MS"><span style="line-height:19.5px">As an illustrative example, under this new policy, if a first year student receives an F, and then an A, in two attempts of the ENGI 1331 computing course, the student will be able to petition to have the F go away, and not count towards the UH GPA.</span></font><div><font color="#333333" face="sans-serif, Arial, Verdana, Trebuchet MS"><span style="line-height:19.5px"><br></span></font></div><div><span style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:sans-serif,Arial,Verdana,'Trebuchet MS';line-height:19.5px">I understand that the SGA (Student Government Association) is strongly pushing to have this proposal approved.</span><font color="#333333" face="sans-serif, Arial, Verdana, Trebuchet MS"><span style="line-height:19.5px"><br></span></font></div><div><span style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:sans-serif,Arial,Verdana,'Trebuchet MS';line-height:19.5px"><br></span></div><div><font color="#333333" face="sans-serif, Arial, Verdana, Trebuchet MS"><span style="line-height:19.5px">I am not in favor of this policy, and unless persuaded otherwise, I intend to vote no (the other two votes on the UC for our college are by Dr. Trombetta and Dr. Epling). </span></font></div><div><font color="#333333" face="sans-serif, Arial, Verdana, Trebuchet MS"><span style="line-height:19.5px"><br></span></font></div><div><font color="#333333" face="sans-serif, Arial, Verdana, Trebuchet MS"><span style="line-height:19.5px">The full proposal (and a spreadsheet showing what other Tier-1 schools do in this regard) is attached.</span></font></div><div><font color="#333333" face="sans-serif, Arial, Verdana, Trebuchet MS"><span style="line-height:19.5px"><br></span></font></div><div><font color="#333333" face="sans-serif, Arial, Verdana, Trebuchet MS"><span style="line-height:19.5px">I welcome your input and feedback before the vote on March 23.</span></font></div><div><font color="#333333" face="sans-serif, Arial, Verdana, Trebuchet MS"><span style="line-height:19.5px"><br></span></font></div><div><font color="#333333" face="sans-serif, Arial, Verdana, Trebuchet MS"><span style="line-height:19.5px"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div> </div><div><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div>Best regards,<br></div><div><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div><div><div><div><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div><div><div><div><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div><div><div><div><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div><div><div><div><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div><div><div><div><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div><div><div><div><br>JR<br><br><span>Dr. JR Rao</span></div><div>Director of Online Programs and Extension Services</div><div>Cullen College of Engineering<br><span>Associate Chair, </span><span>Department of Mechanical Engineering</span><br>
<span><font color="#ff0000">University of Houston</font></span><br><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:'Trebuchet MS','Lucida Grande','Lucida Sans Unicode','Lucida Sans',Tahoma,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:21.3333px">A Carnegie-designated Tier One public research university</span></div><div><font color="#000000" face="Trebuchet MS, Lucida Grande, Lucida Sans Unicode, Lucida Sans, Tahoma, sans-serif"><span style="line-height:21.3333px"><a href="tel:713-743-4535" value="+17137434535" target="_blank">713-743-4535</a></span></font></div><div><font color="#000000" face="Trebuchet MS, Lucida Grande, Lucida Sans Unicode, Lucida Sans, Tahoma, sans-serif"><span style="line-height:21.3333px"><a href="mailto:rao@uh.edu" target="_blank">rao@uh.edu</a></span></font></div><div><span>Address:</span></div><div>The University of Houston, </div><div>Engineering Building 1, <span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:14px">Room N207</span><br>
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