Resolution 95-08: GRADE POINT AVERAGE UNIFORMITY
| Number | 95-08 |
| Description | Returning adult students |
| Authored by |
Sheldon Thomson |
| Sponsored by |
Jason Edwards |
| Date Submitted | Tuesday, February 21, 1995 |
| Date Considered | Thursday, April 13, 1995 |
| Committee | Academic Affairs |
| Result | n/a |
| Remarks | FAILED - "Academic Fresh Start" law passed in 1993 lets students escape their old GPA, and their credits as well. Zack Prince, Registrar, believes this would be in violation of that law. |
| Whereas | Adult returning students, after an extended absence from college, return with different goals, attitudes, and abilities; and |
| Whereas | Adult returning students transferring in credits earned at another college will have a GPA based on work at UTA; and |
| Whereas | Adult returning students with all credits earned at UTA have their GPA based on all work attempted at UTA; and |
| Whereas | The current policy does not uniformly reflect, through the GPA, the capabilities of ALL returning adult students. |
| Be It Further Resolved That | Returning adult students with ten or more years of absence from UTA, with no intervening college, will only have the work attempted since returning to UTA used to calculate their GPA for transcript purposes; and |
| Be It Further Resolved That | This resolution is resolution is not contradictory or conflicting with other UTA grading policies. |