The University's policy on providing mid-term alerts is undergoing comprehensive review, as all University policies do. If the policy is approved by the President's Policy Committee this spring, it will now be titled: "Providing in-progress notifications on academic performance," to encourage faculty that they can use the mechanism to notify students if they are doing well academically, not only if they are in danger of earning a D, F or N.
The reference to mid-term has also been a bit of a misnomer, so the new title reflects that the notification may occur at a time other than the middle of the term. In addition to these changes, the policy will no longer reflect the weeks within the semester when the notification should occur, but rather at a time in the semester when a student could reasonably make an informed choice about changing study habits to turn around poor performance or make the choice to drop a class before the withdrawal deadline.
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