This year, NSU changed their grade forgiveness policy, which previously allowed students to retake a class regardless of the grade they received and count the higher grade in their GPA while the previous grade still remained on their transcripts. The new policy states a student can exclude from their GPA up to three courses they received a C- or below in. After three, the courses will be averaged. What are your thoughts on this change?
“I think that’s worse than before
because I wouldn’t want even
a C+, especially for bio majors
where you have to take exams and
get into the school of your choice.
You’re going to want the best
grade possible, and if they are
only giving three chances, they
are hard classes to take. A C+ is
moderately okay, but you want the
best grade possible, so I feel like
that’s a little bit unfair.”
– Zavier Bernal,
sophomore marine
biology major
“Personally, I think it’s a good thing
to petition. I believe the old grade
policy was sufficient enough for
students and for grad schools,
especially when students are
applying to grad schools which
I have heard was the issue on
why they changed the policy. As
a senator, we just talked about it
in senate, and based on what we
have discussed, we think that if
the school wants to move towards
going back to the old grade policy,
we would at least appreciate
being grandfathered in under the
old grade policy. This is a very
awkward transition for current
students. We believe this would
be a good policy to implement to
incoming freshman and transfer
students and not to the students
here now.”
– Raavi Singh,
junior biology major
“I feel like the change could be
better because sometimes people
have a hard semester, and they
need multiple chances to retake
classes if they had a tough year.
It would be more useful to allow
them to retake classes as many
times as they want, and it would
benefit NSU as well.”
– Lauren Gispert,
senior psychology major
“You should be able to retake
whatever class you want besides
just the three. They shouldn’t
average if you retake the entire
class again. It should count. I think
if you’re going to spend the money
on the course, then what’s keeping
you from that?”
– Devin Sidway,
sophomore biology major
“I think that’s good because
somebody like me, who’s a
freshman, messes up in a class
because they don’t have any
college experience can retake it.
You wouldn’t want a C- on your
GPA anyways, so I think it’s good.”
– Sherod Sharif,
freshman marketing major
“To be honest, I feel like the
university kind of went behind
our backs with it because not a
lot of us know about it. We have
people working to turn around a
freshman year that they might’ve
not done so well at, and now
they have to work even harder to
try and bring those grades up. It
could drastically affect their future,
even when academic advisors
told them that they could bring it
up. Now they can’t. So for those
students that are trying to keep on
board and are working really hard,
they kind of messed with a lot of
their futures.”
– Shawn Striker,
senior sports and recreation
management major
