In an emergency meeting of the Faculty Executive Committee, Student Body Vice President Kyle Villemain requested a delay of the new transcripts after student focus groups raised concerns about students’ knowledge of the impending change.
“I would say 98 percent of students in the current population do not know what it means, and they are the ones who will have it on their transcripts in three weeks,” he said.
The transcript would include a median grade for each course, a schedule point average that shows the GPA of the average person in the course and the percentile range of where one’s course grade fell compared to the median grade.
Folt, who heard the concerns from Villemain and freshman Eliza Filene during the scheduled Chancellor’s Advisory Committee meeting Tuesday, decided to delay the contextualized switch.
She cited student concerns, the time since the policy was originally voted to be implemented in 2011 and the technical issues raised by University Registrar Chris Derickson.
Derickson, whose office was in charge of creating the new contextualized transcripts for students, had concerns about his office being ready to put the change into action in just a few weeks, mentioning that the most recent draft of the new transcript shown at the Faculty Council meeting less than a week ago had an error with the schedule point average.
“I can find a way to make it work if it’s for what is best for the University, but I do wish there was more time,” he said.
Evelyne Huber, a political science professor, echoed Derickson’s sentiments.
