Jacob Baumgart /THE REVIEW Previously, undergraduate students earning a semester GPA of 3.33 or higher for a full-time course load were placed on the Dean’s List. BY MITCHELL PATTERSON Associate News Editor On Monday, the Faculty Senate voted to raise the GPA requirement from 3.33 to 3.50. Doing so not only reduces the amount of undergraduate students honored, but also brings the university up to the same Dean’s List standard used by most comparable institutions. Previously, undergraduate students earning a semester GPA of 3.33 or higher for a full-time course load were placed on the Dean’s List. This accounted for approximately half of the undergraduate population, bringing the prestige of the Dean’s List into question. “Raising the criterion for Dean’s List honors to a GPA of 3.50 returns the typical percentage receiving honors below 40%,” Chris Williams, professor of wildlife ecology and chair of the senate’s Executive Committee, said. “It also makes our Dean’s List criterion fall into a range more typical of our comparator institutions.” On March 11, a special session of the Faculty Senate Committee on Undergraduate Education proposed raising that criterion to 3.5 in order to combat increasing grade-inflation. According to a study by Earl “Rusty” Lee,… Read full this story
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