Students must complete all course work within the bounds of a semester unless they petition for and are granted an Incomplete by the CSA Committee on Academic Standing. Students may be granted an Incomplete only in rare circumstances such as an incapacitating illness as certified by Health Services at Columbia, serious family emergency, or circumstances of comparable gravity which prevent the completion of work specifically due at the end of the semester.
To be granted an Incomplete, it is expected that students will have completed all work in the class except for the final project or exam, and students must provide official supporting documentation certifying the reasons for the request. Please note that final authorization of all Incompletes requires approval of the Committee on Academic Standing; individual faculty members and instructors are NOT authorized to grant Incompletes.
Students who wish to petition for an Incomplete must do the following:
A) Contact/make an appointment with their Advising Dean to discuss the request. If the circumstances appear to warrant an Incomplete, they will be provided with an application to request an Incomplete. This petition includes a form to be completed by their instructor(s).
B) Request that the instructor(s) complete the instructor form. Instructors will be asked to provide a contingency grade in the event that the student does not finish the assigned work. The completed instructor form must be provided in order for the Incomplete application to be reviewed by the Committee on Academic Standing.
C) Obtain supporting documentation from Health Services or other source(s) appropriate to the reason you are requesting an Incomplete.
D) Submit all completed forms and supporting documentation to CSA for consideration by the Committee on Academic Standing.
Petition Deadlines:
For final papers or other course work due at the end of the term: Thursday, December 11, 2008
For final exams: No later than a day before the final examination for which students are requesting the incomplete.
Upon receipt of all forms and supporting documentation, the Committee on Academic Standing will meet to review the petition.
Students will be informed of the decision via email. Students who are granted an Incomplete are assigned a deadline for completion of the overdue work, or a date on which a deferred exam must be taken. The deferred exam dates for Fall 2008 are Friday, January 23, 2009 and Monday, January 26, 2009.
Please contact your Advising Dean with any questions.
Thursday, December 11, 2008
Policy on Incompletes
Monday, December 8, 2008
Fall 2008 Final Exam Schedule
Final Exams are Friday, Dec 12 - Friday, Dec 19
Your Final Exam Schedule is available through SSOL under the “My Exam Schedule” link on your “Student Schedule” page.
**NOTE: You must confirm these dates/times with your instructors. You are strongly advised not to make any travel arrangements/purchases until you have confirmed when your last final exam will be held. Faculty will not offer alternate exam dates for students who book flights that conflict with the final exam. No exceptions.
Thursday, December 4, 2008
Final Exams Overlaps & Conflicts
Students who have two exams at the same time or more than two exams on the same calendar day (not just a twenty-four hour period) as certified by the Registrar, may request an arrangement be made with one of their instructors to take that exam at another mutually available time during the final examination period.
The student should inform the instructors about the situation and inquire if any of them are willing to allow their exam to be taken at an alternate time. Students unable to make suitable arrangements on their own may then contact their Advising Dean to request assistance.
If a professor/instructor needs verification that a student has more than two exams on the same calendar day or two exams at the same time, students should print out their schedule via SSOL as proof, or contact your Advising Dean to verify conflicts via e-mail to the instructor.
Please remember that exams will NOT be rescheduled to accommodate travel plans.
The filing DEADLINE for MAY DEGREE APPLICATIONS has been EXTENDED to WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 10th
Application forms may be picked up in the lobby of 210 Kent or printed from the Registrar's website at:
http://www.columbia.edu/cu/registrar/docs/forms/app-for-deg-or-cert.html
Completed forms may be:
- dropped off in 210 Kent Hall OR
- faxed to Jenny Caplan's attention at 212-854-8747 OR
- saved in Word or pdf or scanned and emailed to: jc12@columbia.edu
Monday, December 1, 2008
COURSE EVALUATIONS
As the last day of classes approaches, please be sure to complete anonymous evaluations of all the courses you have taken this semester. This information is important to all instructors, as they continue to develop and refine all elements of their courses. The evaluation tool is easy to use and accessible through each CourseWorks site of all the courses for which you are registered - https://courseworks.columbia.edu/. Evaluations must be submitted by Thursday, December 11.
This year, there are two improvements to the system:
- Students need complete only the "Instructor Effectiveness", "General", and course-specific questions in order to submit the evaluation. As a result, each evaluation can take as little as 2 minutes to complete.
- Instructors can email a reminder to those students who have not submitted an evaluation WITHOUT access to their names.
40 FREE tickets for Jazz at Lincoln Center - this Friday, December 5th
Columbia College Alumni Affairs has 40 tickets available for this Friday, December 5th, Jazz at Lincoln Center (see below invitation), which they have made available to undergraduates free of charge. If you would like one of these tickets, please respond to studentalumniprograms@columbia.edu by Thursday, December 4 at noon.
Paquito D’Rivera and the Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra.
Legendary Cuban maestro and nine time Grammy winner Paquito D’Riverajoins the Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra and a host of special gueststo showcase the very best of Cuban big band music.
These are once in a lifetime seats surrounding the stage!
Enjoy a pre-performance lecture with members of the JALC Orchestra from 7-8pm, and after the concert meet the musicians in the Green Room.
Friday, December 5
7pm Pre-show lecture
8pm Performance
After the concert, meet the musicians in the Green Room
SIPA Joint BA/MIA/MPA Program Information Session - Dec 5th
Friday December 5th
12 noon - 2:00 p.m.
1510 International Affairs Building
Interested in the SIPA joint BA/MIA/MPA program? Then come to an information session with the SIPA Admissions Office on Friday December 5th, 12 noon – 2pm, in 1510 International Affairs Building. The SIPA Five-Year Program offers a select few students enrolled in Columbia College or SEAS the opportunity to earn a Master of International Affairs (MIA) or Master of Public Administration (MPA) degree in conjunction with their undergraduate degree. This is the opportunity to get many of your questions answered and to determine if this program is the right match for you!
Center for Career Education (CCE): December 1 – 12 at a GLANCE
This week at CCE - Explore your interests and evaluate your career options at “What Do I Want to Do?” and investigate whether graduate school is a sound professional step for you at the Graduate School workshop. Also, join CCE’s summer internships information session for details about internships in consulting, arts, media, finance, engineering and more.
Win a Digital Camcorder by telling us what you did last summer!
Go to www.cce.columbia.edu/summerfeedbacksurvey
Visit the CCE Web site to register for events and for more information.
New MA in Latin American and Caribbean Studies
We are pleased to announce that Columbia University’s new Master of Arts in Regional Studies: Latin America and the Caribbean (MARSLAC) is now accepting applications for Fall 2009.
MARSLAC is a unique interdisciplinary program that provides a broad social science-based approach to modern and contemporary Latin America and the Caribbean. The curriculum features a year-long seminar in which students develop the methodological tools to conduct research on key issues, such as inequality, justice, democratic transitions, and the integration of the region in the global economy. Students fulfill their remaining requirements by taking courses in different disciplines throughout Columbia University
MARSLAC students deepen their knowledge of the political, economic, social and cultural processes shaping Latin America and the Caribbean, and emerge with the expertise to be leaders in a variety of fields, including government, non-profits, the private sector, and academia.
MARSLAC is housed at the Institute of Latin American Studies, the center for research, teaching and discussion on Latin America at Columbia University. Students benefit from the Institute’s associations with New York City’s financial, diplomatic, corporate, cultural and educational centers, including our partnership with the Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies at New York University, with which we form the New York City Consortium for Latin American Studies.
Please feel free to contact us at marslac@columbia.edu for more information. The application deadline is April 1 for Fall 2009.
Website: http://ilas.columbia.edu/marslac
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