Boston College has amended its academic policies for this semester by expanding the option to take courses pass/fail and extending the pass/fail designation deadline in the wake of the University’s ...

Penn announced an optional pass/fail grading system for the spring semester as classes shift online amid the coronavirus outbreak. The policy change comes after peer institutions launched similar ...

The Harvard Policy Committee yesterday sent Dean Ford a new pass-fail proposal. It recommended that students be allowed to take an ungraded course each semester either as part of their normal ...

Some students appreciate the new optional pass/fail policy, while others believe those in less privileged environments will be disadvantaged. Credit: Sharon Lee After Provost Wendell Pritchett ...

With the deadline to declare a course pass/fail arriving at 12 p.m. EDT tomorrow, uncertainty remains in terms of how a pass/fail designation may impact students moving forward. Boston College ...

Many colleges adopted pass-fail grading policies in the spring term to give students breathing room amid COVID-19 disruptions. Students are again lobbying for such policies for the term that’s swiftly ...

Pass-fail is one of those catchy little phrases that is no longer catchy. It has been almost two years since student agitation for an ungraded course began and the intricate deliberations on the ...

The spring 2026 pass/fail form will be available beginning February 3. The deadline to submit a pass/fail grading request for spring 2026 courses is March 10 (5:00 p.m.). Petitions to extend the ...

Hot on the heels of many colleges switching from on-campus to online classes during the COVID-19 pandemic, many GI Bill users are being told their schools are also switching from letter grades to pass ...

Georgetown University Law Center will not be following the lead of three top law schools who have switched to a pass-fail system for their grading policy. Harvard University announced last Friday that ...