Sign this petition if you want to show your solidarity in the unfair and unreasonable sudden letter-grade changes to the BUEC 342 Fall 2019 Course.

I will be contacting the department head regarding the grading scale that was provided to us for BUEC 342. If you are also frustrated with the recent change of letter grade thresholds, I ask for your help in joining my meeting with the department Chair of BUEC at 1pm today, as the more people we have, the better our chances of changing the results positively. He has not given the meeting location yet, if he has not by 1pm we will meet by the stairs on the second floor of business. If you feel even remotely frustrated with the result, I ask for your help in showing there are many who have been affected negatively. Please email me if you are interested, I will be providing the time and place as soon as they reply.

The instructor for this course is Dr. Runjun Liu. I had contacted Professor Liu regarding this issue and she replied that she is no longer able to change the grade cutoffs in our course, which by UofA policy requires the complaint to be registered to the department chair. In my opinion, the updated grade cutoffs are unreasonable and have the following issues:

1. Violated the "Evaluation procedures and grading system" under the UofA Academic regulations, section 2 by not providing fair warning when developing circumstances had occurred and the instructor had emailed the letter grade cutoffs on Dec 27th, 2019. However, a different letter grade scheme was emailed to us on Jan 9th, 2020. Both cutoffs were not stipulated in the syllabus' grading criterion at the introduction of the course.

1. Violated the "Evaluation procedures and grading system" under the UofA Academic regulations, section 2.a.ix, which additionally violates the Grading Procedure under the UofA Policies and Principles Online (UAPPOL). These are violated by a lack of clear grading scheme in the syllabus that these regulations administrate.
2. Violated the "Evaluation procedures and grading system" under the UofA Academic regulations, section 4. and the UAPPOL grading procedure by being unclear within the grading criterion in the syllabus. Specifically, section 2 within the UAPPOL grading procedure regarding communication with students has been flagrantly violated, as course grading had not been clearly communicated in the course syllabus. This also violates Academic regulations in the University Calendar. The grading criterion within the Syllabus points to a section that does not exist in the current University Calendar. In addition, there is no recommended undergraduate grading distribution at its provided link, only a showcase of the letter grades and their corresponding grade point value.

1. Many students feel these grade cutoffs are unreasonably high for the course. The Jan 9th grading scheme does not align properly, grades that were formerly passing are now failing, everyone in the scheme has been dropped a grade point, also there is an undefined letter grade between 40-44% as shown in the announcement.
2. Violates section 1 of the UAPPOL Grading procedure by establishing a grading quota beyond the fall semester's resolution. Confirmed and provided in the Department chair's statement.

Please let me know if you would join me in meeting with the department chair at 1pm today, he will be telling me the location of the meeting soon. If he has not given me a location by then, please meet by the stairs on the second floor of business.

Thanks,
William