{"id":4029,"date":"2017-12-18T11:00:20","date_gmt":"2017-12-18T18:00:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/lfsgrads\/?p=4029"},"modified":"2017-12-18T11:00:20","modified_gmt":"2017-12-18T18:00:20","slug":"deferred-standing-monitoring-procedure","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/lfsgrads\/post-4029","title":{"rendered":"Deferred standing: monitoring procedure"},"content":{"rendered":"

Deferred Standing<\/span><\/span><\/b>\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/b><\/p>\n

As you know, there is a campus-wide policy on Deferred standing in coursework:<\/span><\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

UBC Calendar – Campus-wide Policies and Regulations: <\/span>http:\/\/www.calendar.ubc.ca\/vancouver\/index.cfm?tree=3,42,97,0<\/a><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

There has been no change in this policy. <\/span><\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

G+PS has seen an increase in the number of\u00a0 students who have been given an extension to time to complete course requirements without formal Deferred standing. In some cases the outstanding requirements have not been completed, and the missing grades have not been noticed until final checking before graduation. Such a situation can be very difficult to resolve, particularly if the instructor is no longer available either to provide a grade on work that was completed or to review the student\u2019s submission of the outstanding material to complete the course. This can have serious consequences for a student who is expecting to graduate.<\/span><\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

In order to prevent such occurrences, we will be offering more support to programs to identify students who have missing grades and who may need Deferred standing. One month after the end of each term, we will run a report that identifies students with missing grades, and will inform graduate programs. The programs can then contact their students and the course instructors to determine whether the students still have work to complete and whether Deferred standing is appropriate. Programs follow up with G+PS and either request Deferred standing or enter a grade for the work the student has completed.<\/span><\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

If the program decides to request Deferred standing, the instructor must provide an interim grade that will be entered in the student\u2019s record in addition to SD (for Deferred standing). This ensures that if the instructor is no longer at UBC when the SD is completed, another faculty member can grade the remaining work and calculate a total grade using the interim grade.\u00a0 <\/span><\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Please see <\/span>Deferred Standing<\/a><\/span> in the Policies and Procedures section of the G+PS website for details on the procedure for requesting Deferred standing.<\/p>\n

<\/span><\/span>The <\/span>form for requesting Deferred standing<\/a><\/span> has been updated to clarify this procedure.<\/span><\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Please don\u2019t hesitate to contact me (max.read@ubc.ca<\/a>) if you have questions.<\/span><\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Kind regards,<\/span><\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Max<\/span><\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Max Read<\/span><\/b>
\n<\/span>Associate Director, Student Academic Services<\/span>
\n<\/span>Graduate and Postdoctoral Studies\u00a0|\u00a0Office of the Dean and Vice-Provost<\/span>
\n<\/span>The University of British Columbia | Vancouver Campus<\/span>
\n<\/span>170-6371 Crescent Road\u00a0|\u00a0Vancouver BC\u00a0|\u00a0V6T 1Z2 Canada<\/span>
\n<\/span>Phone 604 822 0283<\/span>
\n<\/span><\/span>max.read@ubc.ca<\/span><\/a> | <\/span><\/span>http:\/\/www.grad.ubc.ca<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Deferred Standing\u00a0 As you know, there is a campus-wide policy on Deferred standing in coursework:\u00a0 UBC Calendar – Campus-wide Policies and Regulations: http:\/\/www.calendar.ubc.ca\/vancouver\/index.cfm?tree=3,42,97,0 \u00a0 There has been no change in this policy. \u00a0 G+PS has seen an increase in the number of\u00a0 students who have been given an extension to time to complete course requirements…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":18841,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3836],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4029","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news-and-events"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/lfsgrads\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4029","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/lfsgrads\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/lfsgrads\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/lfsgrads\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/18841"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/lfsgrads\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4029"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/lfsgrads\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4029\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4030,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/lfsgrads\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4029\/revisions\/4030"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/lfsgrads\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4029"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/lfsgrads\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4029"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/lfsgrads\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4029"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}