CHANGE OF GRADES/ACADEMIC FORGIVENESS

The College under certain circumstances allows recorded grades to be changed. Students in the following three situations may have their grades changed:

• Students who have been given an incorrect grade.
• Student who repeat the course, and
• Under academic forgiveness, a student may have a block of courses removed from their grade point average and credit calculations.

Policy included in Catalog
Adopted: April 26, 1984
Revised: May 26, 1988
Revised: February 22, 1996
Reformatted: May 3, 2011
Revised: October 8, 2015

Procedure 5240D

CHANGE OF GRADES/ACADEMIC FORGIVENESS

Grade Corrections
If a mistake is made in computing or recording a grade, the student should ask his or her instructor to correct the grade. The mistake, however, must be discovered and corrected in the semester following the course completion. After the end of the following semester, no changes will be made.

Notified of the mistake within these time limits, the instructor must complete and send a change of grade form to the Vice President for Student Learning.

When the Vice President approves the change, Registration and Records will change the grade on that student’s record.

Repeating a Course
Students may repeat any Western course.

Although the record of all previous grades in that course will remain, the College uses only the last grade earned in a course, unless the grade is a withdrawal, to compute grade point averages.

Students may repeat a course as many times as they wish. Regardless, only the last grade earned will be used to compute grade point average. A small number of courses may be taken multiple times for credit. These exceptions are listed in the College catalog.

Academic Forgiveness
A student returning to Western Wyoming Community College after a minimum five year absence may request to have an entire block (at least one full semester) of course grades removed from the calculation of the grade point average and accumulated credit. This is a one-time option. All classes remain on the student’s permanent transcript but are removed from grade point average and credit calculations.

Policy included in Catalog
Adopted: April 26, 1984
Approved: May 26, 1988
Revised: February 22, 1996
Revised: March 9, 2006
Reformatted: May 3, 2011
Revised: October 8, 2015