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The other Claremont Colleges have been divided on how to proceed, and it’s unclear if they will follow Pitzer’s model. “An opt-in may hurt students who don’t have the resources to continue the most, as they are penalized in relations to their peers who look more competitive. “Although some of us may be able to keep working for the grade, a lot of us don’t have that option,” Kurkhill said in the email. Maya Kurkhill PZ ’23, a member of Pitzer’s Academic Planning Committee, argued against an opt-in pass/no credit system in an email to students Thursday. Other popular proposals included a universal-A/A- policy or an A/A-/no credit policy. Pitzer Student Senate recommended on Tuesday a universal-A policy, which would automatically grant all students A’s regardless of class performance, based on a survey in which over 40 percent of respondents supported the policy in each round of voting. The policy does not go as far as some Pitzer students had hoped it would. It has not yet been announced to Pitzer students.Ĭlasses at the 5Cs moved online this week due to the coronavirus pandemic, and most students were sent home several weeks ago. The policy’s language is not yet finalized, according to Faulstich’s email, and is being refined by a group of professors.


Under the policy, approved at a faculty meeting Thursday, students will receive a grade of either “Emergency Satisfactory” (SEM) or “No Record COVID” (NRC) by default, but will have the option to instead choose to receive a letter grade, according to the email. Pitzer College will implement an automatic pass/no credit grading policy for the semester, with an option for students to receive a letter grade, Faculty Executive Committee Chair Paul Faulstich said in an email to faculty Friday that was obtained by TSL. Pitzer College will be implementing an automatic pass/no credit grading policy for the semester, with an option for students to receive a letter grade.
