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WORKING CONDITIONS

SUBCOMMITTEE ON INSTRUCTION FACILITIES: INVITES YOU

to submit suggestions for improvement in the follow- ing areas:

a) AeVe facilities

b) library facilities

c) administrative "

d) duplication "

e) secretarial "

f) counselling s

g) laboratory assistance The subcommittee:

J.» Gresko, A. Jones,

B. Burleigh, NeHill will meet to consider briefs and prepare a report for the working conditions com- mittee as soon as possible. Please send briefs or

suggestions to J. Gresko, N.We

We believe that the present grading system doesn't allow a student sufficient freedom outside their major dicipline. In order to maintain a high grade point average for schol- arships and university accept- ance, many students are forced to take subjects in which they know they will do well. For example, many Liberal Studies students are reluctant to take courses in the Sciences or the Fine Arts. We suggest that students be permitted to take up to twelve credit hours (average of one per semester) on a credit/no credit basis toward the A.A. or A.S. dip- loma.

Under the credit/no credit system the student does not receive a letter grade. At the end of a semester, after the student reaches the re- 9 quired level of competency, he : receives credit for the course without any letter grade being computed into his grade point average. In effect, the stu- dent audits a course and, if he satisfies the instructor that he has mastered the basic concepts or skills required in the course, he receives credit for it. i1£, during the semester, the student finds that he cannot cope with the material or loses interest in the subject area, he can leave the course without the stigma of a "W", or "I",

There should be no problem with University transferability. Similar systems are in use in many American Universities and Colleges. We have inquired at both - they advised us that they accept courses taken on th¢ system and do not compute it in @u4 the G.P.A. for acceptance. }

Student Reps. on Curriculum Committee