Upper Limit Quality Grades for Research

In light of the new Senate Policy on Academic Integrity, which was to be promoted and implemented by college Academic Integrity Committees, there may be occasions where an academic or disciplinary sanction is determined to be appropriate for activities related to the thesis or dissertation. In such cases, it may be appropriate to assign a "F" or "XF" grade to all thesis or dissertation credits (i.e., 600 or 610). In recognition of this, the following change was proposed in the quality grade statement (found in the Graduate Degree Programs Bulletin):

The Graduate Council has established upper limits of 6 credits of quality grades for master's thesis research and 12 credits for doctoral dissertation research. The remaining credits must be assigned Rs, except in the case of academic or disciplinary sanctions, in which case an "F" or "XF" grade may be assigned, as appropriate, up to the total number of thesis research credits (600 or 610) on record (see Senate Policy 49-20 and Procedures G-9), as well as Appendix II of the Bulletin).

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