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An Incomplete Experience | 7 comments (7 topical, 0 hidden)
[new] What situations merrit an incomplete (none / 0) (#5)
by jvano on Fri Feb 13, 2004 at 03:50:21 PM PDT

Several people have commented here that they have given students incompletes in past semesters and I'm just curious:
  • On what grounds (for what situations) have you given an incomplete to a student?
  • Does your department or university have any guidelines for giving out an incomplete?
I think that some situations, such as:
  • student experiences a death in their family;
  • student has serious medical procedure;
clearly merrit an incomplete, but what about things that (at least to me) do not seem as black/white such as:
  • the death of a distant relative (and how "distant" does it need to be?);
  • student (or student's girlfriend) gets pregnant;
  • student gets sick with flu or cold and misses class for several weeks;
What are other cases that should clearly merrit an incomplete? What are other boarder-line cases? Where does one draw the line?


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