[Oacrao-l] Question about failing grades for non attendance

[Peaster, Rita]

While we do not have a special grade to designate failing due to non-attendance, we do require faculty to select one of the following when they assign an "F" grade:


*         Student attended

*         Student stopped attending

*         No evidence of attendance

If they select the "stopped attending" option, we also require that they record an approximate date that the student stopped attending.  The attendance information is not recorded on the transcript, but is stored in our student information system.  This internal notation has worked well at OSU.


Rita Gearhart Peaster
Associate Registrar
Oklahoma State University
322 Student Union
Phone: 405.744.3077
Fax: 405.744.8426
rita.peaster at okstate.edu<mailto:rita.peaster at okstate.edu>

From: oacrao-l-bounces at lists.onenet.net [mailto:oacrao-l-bounces at lists.onenet.net] On Behalf Of Janice Middlebrooks
Sent: Tuesday, August 09, 2011 2:48 PM
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Subject: [Oacrao-l] Question about failing grades for non attendance

It has been suggested to us that we should create a grade of FN or NF to reflect failing a course for non-attendance versus an earned F.  I have some questions:

1.       Do you have such a grade?  If so what is it?

2.       Is that grade recorded on transcripts and grade reports or is it something you note internally?
Thanks for your replies.

Janice Middlebrooks
Assistant Registrar
Mid-America Christian University
3500 S.W. 119th Street, Oklahoma City, OK 73170
Fax: (405) 692-3279
(405) 692-3175 | jmiddlebrooks at macu.edu<mailto:jmiddlebrooks at macu.edu>

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