S.05-56

SIMON FRASER UNIVERSITY

DEAN OF GRADUATE STUDIES

MEMORANDUM

TO: ?

Senate

FROM:

Jonathan Driver, Dean of Graduate Studies

SUBJECT: Change to Graduate Regulation 1.5.1

DATE:

21s' February 2005 ?

JC/

Although grade notations WD and WE appear o graduate transcripts, there is no

discussion of their use in the Calendar. At its meet! of 14

February 2005, Senate

Graduate Studies Committee approved the addition of the following paragraph to

Graduate General Regulation 1.5.1, and I recommend that Senate also approve this.

Proposed addition to GGR 1.5.1

A course that is dropped before the end of the second week of the semester will not be

recorded on the student's transcript. A course that is dropped within the third to eighth

weeks (inclusive) will be recorded on the transcript with the notation WD. No course

may be dropped after the end of the eighth week and before the end of the twelfth week,

except in extenuating circumstances approved by the Director, Graduate Records,

Admissions and Registration. Courses dropped under extenuating circumstances will

receive a WE notation. See the Academic Calendar of Events for dates that apply each

semester. WD and WE grades carry no credit value and are not used in GPA calculations.

MOTION: "that Senate approve the proposed addition to? 

Graduate General ReuIation 1.5.1" 

Rationale:

We use these notations, and we publish dates concerning them in the Academic Calendar

of Events, but there is no discussion of them in GGR.

Implications:

The Academic Calendar of Events will have the following entries:

(a)

last day of week two: "Last day for graduate students to add courses and register late.

Last day to drop courses with no notation on the transcript"

(b)

last day of week eight: "Last day for graduate students to drop a course and receive a

WD on the transcript"

(c)

last day of week twelve: "Last day for graduate students to drop a course under

extenuating circumstances and receive a WE on the transcript"