[La-cgs] [EXTERNAL SENDER] Grades for thesis and dissertation courses

[Christopher Bonvillain]

Biology is our only grad program on campus that has a thesis and we are
typically at around 20 students in the program so the Biology Graduate
Coordinator submits all thesis research grades (S, U, or I).  However,
students that schedule thesis research have to write a summary of what they
did for their "thesis research" each time they schedule hours so that we
have a record to assign their grade.  Also, the major professor for each
student can let the grad coordinator know if the student did not complete
thesis research for the assigned semester and the grad coordinator can
assign a U or I if the major professor requests.

Chris

On Wed, Jun 19, 2024 at 9:01 PM B. Ramu Ramachandran <ramu at coes.latech.edu>
wrote:

> Dear LA-CGS members:
>
> At Louisiana Tech, graduate students in the thesis (master's degrees) or
> dissertation tracks get an "I" grade for those hours until the
> thesis/dissertation is submitted. At that point, the required number of
> thesis/dissertation hours are converted to "S" (current term and past
> terms). Is that how you all handle it? Usually the "instructor" for
> these courses is the associate dean in the colleges who often has no
> idea how well or poorly the student is progressing.
>
> Best regards,
> Ramu
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*Christopher P. Bonvillain, Ph.D.*
Director of University Graduate Studies
Associate Professor, Graduate Program Coordinator
Department of Biological Sciences
*Nicholls State University*
P.O. Box 2021
Thibodaux, LA 70310
Email: chris.bonvillain at nicholls.edu
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