Hi all,
Thank you for your support. I encourage you to continue our push for an equitable solution to the problems facing Carleton students by emailing Carleton's President at sandra.slater@carleton.ca as well as the respective Dean of your faculty. The University must prioritize people over numbers.
McGill announced yesterday that all students will be given the option to take a pass/fail after seeing exam grades. The content of the policy, per the University's email to students, is as follows:
“Satisfactory/Unsatisfactory option
Because of the exceptional circumstances, the normal protocol for the Satisfactory/Unsatisfactory (S/U) option is suspended for Programs and courses which are not already graded on a Pass-Fail basis.
For this term, all students, whether undergraduate or graduate, may exercise the S/U option for their courses, provided that doing so would not run counter to any requirements, timelines, or policies set by their respective programs of study or external accreditation bodies.
Courses for which the S/U option is exercised will not be calculated in a student’s GPA but will contribute to credits completed. Courses for which the S/U option is exercised this term may count toward a student’s major or minor requirements, and courses for which the S/U option is exercised this term will not count toward the maximum number of credits that a student may designate as S/U (i.e., up to 10 per cent of total degree credits).
The date by which students may exercise the S/U option is May 22, 2020, reflecting that students’ grades are known by this time. The deadline for selecting a Withdrawal from a course in Minerva has been extended to April 15, 2020 (effective Monday March 23). This will result in a student receiving a notation of “W” on their transcript for the course in question, which means it is excluded from any GPA calculation or to credits completed."
The University of Ottawa announced a similar policy for their Engineering faculty and other faculties are likely to follow. Details can be found here: https://i.redd.it/634i19hrvxn41.jpg
Again, thank you for your support. This is feasible at Carleton. I will be submitting this petition to the Deans, the Provost, the President, and the Ottawa Citizen shortly.