Western Carolina University’s Faculty Senate passed a resolution to extend its satisfactory/unsatisfactory guidelines for the 2021 spring semester due to the prolonged strain of non-standard teaching modalities at a primarily residential instruction institution.
Within the guidelines, faculty members will provide traditional letter grades as usual at the end of the semester. Students may accept their letter grade for a course or may request grades of satisfactory or unsatisfactory. A grade of satisfactory will be awarded, if requested, for any letter grade from A to C, and a grade of unsatisfactory will be awarded for any letter grade from C-minus to F.
Students can still earn Chancellor’s List and Dean’s List commendations for spring 2021 as long as they retain traditional A-F grading for all courses. Students who take grades of satisfactory or unsatifactory for any course will be ineligible for those lists.