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Show Oregon college eliminates 'F' Failing grades no longer need appear on a student's transcript at Linfield College in McMinnville, Oregon, since the faculty passed a measure to make a student's transcript a record of satisfactory completion of requirements. The student now has the option of dropping a course at any time, even within 60 days after a final examination, and having the record rec-ord of his enrollment removed from his transcript at his request. The innovation is one which has also been adopted at Brown University. Uni-versity. The philosophy behind this move is that a record of failure often precludes another chance in education or lessens acceptability in graduate school or employment. The record of failure often conceals con-ceals personal difficulties which have nothing to do with the potential poten-tial to complete academic requirements require-ments satisfactorily, Linfield believes. be-lieves. Dr. Gordon C. Bjork, Linfield Lin-field president, says: "We ought to rely on positive incentives and creative teaching to inspire superior supe-rior performance." |
