For the students who have had to work around Bradley’s credit transfer procedures, it made an often-times confusing distraction.
In an effort to ease students’ paths towards graduation, the Bradley University Senate revised the policies concerning transferring a D grade, which were considered “complex and unfair” by the Academic Regulations and Degree Requirements Committee.
The revised policy allows any D grade credit to be transferred unless there is a requirement within the student’s major that says the student must have a C or higher.
“Now it’s like a blanket, yes: we accept D’s, unless the specific rule says you need a C,” Associate Dean of the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences Kelly McConnaughay said.
Changes to the policy were proposed in the May 2014 University Senate meeting last academic year and the changes were finalized this September.
“It was a fairly convoluted mess for students trying to decide how and when to transfer grades from other institutions to Bradley,” McConnaughay said. “So, we wanted to simplify it.”
The policy made it hard for students to transfer grades over from institutions where they were only taking a few classes.
“The previous policy was a little bit wonky,” McConnaughay said. “It allowed the transfer of grades of D but only if they came in a package where the average grade of the package was a [2.0].”
This created problems for students.
If students only took one class and received a D, they would not be able to transfer the credit until they took more classes at that particular institution. This wasted a lot of time scrambling around, trying to figure out what exactly was needed for these grades to transfer over. Students in their senior year would find they could not graduate in time because they were not aware their credit did not transfer.
According to McConnaughay, under the new policy students are better able to transfer credits without complications.
