Reply #24: At my former university,

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personal issues and make-ups, while at the ultimate discretion of the instructor, could most certainly be granted. All the professor has to do is to submit a grade of "I" (incomplete) for the semester/term. According to university policy, the student then has one additional term to make up the work, whereupon the professor submits an official "change of grade" form, and the "I" is replaced on the student's transcript. It's a compassionate remedy to the inevitable slices of real-life that interrupt education at times, without requiring the instructor to "curve" or "boost" grades.

Of course, policies vary according to institution, but I'd imagine that most unis would have some similar path of recourse, especially for military-attached students. I mean, sheesh, how many admins or profs would honestly think that in today's world, with disasters, wars, families spread across the country and indeed the globe, etc., that every single student could re-schedule all "real life" issues for the one week break between terms?

:think: :shrug: :eyes: