We the students of LIU are petitioning against the new grading policy. We feel that implementing a new grading policy for students that have been in the nursing program thus far is unfair. We understand that LIU is moving in a new direction and are respectful of this. However, we ask for those of us that are currently enrolled, that we may continue our curriculum under the terms we agreed upon entering the LIU school of nursing program.
Updates
November 4, 2015
Reaching this point has been exhausting but seeing this many of you agree that our original terms should be honored makes the struggle feel worth the weight. We still have a long road ahead before the administration acknowledges this shift in the program. Thank you for staying in this with me despite how quiet they have been.
Reached 100 supporters
November 4, 2015
34 Comments
I think the school should evaluate their professors. Success depends on the professors as well the students. If during a semester 17 to 20 people fail a class. The school should be ashamed, because obviously the professor's method of teaching is not effective. So LIU you want to be successful! Listen more to your students.
I understand the need for an amended grading policy; but, disagree with how it is enacted. Why are we given this supplementary work, when they don't affect overall grade? Given that most of us have a work overload, this supplementary work ( concept maps, assessments) should be designed to help students get through the course. Also, the style of questions are NOT NCLEX. If the objective is to pass the NCLEX on the first try, Why not teach us how to take NCLEX questions? Even for the NCLEX exam : test-takers are first taught about the style of questions, and how to take them; we have not been given anything. Overall, I'm disappointed with indifference of the teaching board. We are taught to show empathy, but no empathy is shown towards us.
I'm not disagreeing about the grades or whether labs, concept maps, ati should or shouldn't be accounted, but only that this grading policy and the whole curriculum needs to be changed. As a student, I use the syllabus to based my grades and what I should be studying. It's unprofessional for a program to be changing a syllabus mid-semester, actually no, changing the whole system at the end of the term. Don't tell us to read these pages or these chapters and on the day of the exams/quizzes/midterm we should have read the whole book. This is setting the student body to fail. No student in this program wants to fail because we paid and sacrificed our lives to be here.
We're not asking for the grade requirements to lower, we are just asking to have all of our work count towards our class grade average... The fact that we have assignments and labs that account for about 30% of the grade, yet doesn't help us in passing a class is unfair, why do so much extra work if only tests and quizzes count? This new policy was not in place when I applied, and was a complete surprise to me and many. Other schools count lab as 25% of a grade, at LIU its only %10. Also Having NCLEX style quizes and tests the first couple of weeks is unreasonable. Let us get used to it and teach us what is expected first, ( cant really think like a nurse if We're not taught how they think) Since I started it has been one curveball after another.....
I'm not against the new policy, in fact it's a welcomed development, but imposing it on students who were admitted based on a different term and agreement is more like breaking a contract.
I believe it's not fair to us students...
No change
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We the students of LIU are petitioning against the new grading policy. We feel that implementing a new grading policy for students that have been in the nursing program thus far is unfair. We understand that LIU is moving in a new direction and are respectful of this. However, we ask for those of us that are currently enrolled, that we may continue our curriculum under the terms we agreed upon entering the LIU school of nursing program.
Updates
November 4, 2015
Reaching this point has been exhausting but seeing this many of you agree that our original terms should be honored makes the struggle feel worth the weight. We still have a long road ahead before the administration acknowledges this shift in the program. Thank you for staying in this with me despite how quiet they have been.
Reached 100 supporters
November 4, 2015
34 Comments
To implement a new grading policy while we have already been in the school and sign a contact that is really unfair for the students because upon entering LIU on the contract that I signed it said that we have to maintain a 76.45 to pass a class. "It did not say anything about only having test and quizzes and then assignments and ati will be added at the end".
I think the school should evaluate their professors. Success depends on the professors as well the students. If during a semester 17 to 20 people fail a class. The school should be ashamed, because obviously the professor's method of teaching is not effective. So LIU you want to be successful! Listen more to your students.
I understand the need for an amended grading policy; but, disagree with how it is enacted. Why are we given this supplementary work, when they don't affect overall grade? Given that most of us have a work overload, this supplementary work ( concept maps, assessments) should be designed to help students get through the course. Also, the style of questions are NOT NCLEX. If the objective is to pass the NCLEX on the first try, Why not teach us how to take NCLEX questions? Even for the NCLEX exam : test-takers are first taught about the style of questions, and how to take them; we have not been given anything. Overall, I'm disappointed with indifference of the teaching board. We are taught to show empathy, but no empathy is shown towards us.
I'm not disagreeing about the grades or whether labs, concept maps, ati should or shouldn't be accounted, but only that this grading policy and the whole curriculum needs to be changed. As a student, I use the syllabus to based my grades and what I should be studying. It's unprofessional for a program to be changing a syllabus mid-semester, actually no, changing the whole system at the end of the term. Don't tell us to read these pages or these chapters and on the day of the exams/quizzes/midterm we should have read the whole book. This is setting the student body to fail. No student in this program wants to fail because we paid and sacrificed our lives to be here.
We're not asking for the grade requirements to lower, we are just asking to have all of our work count towards our class grade average... The fact that we have assignments and labs that account for about 30% of the grade, yet doesn't help us in passing a class is unfair, why do so much extra work if only tests and quizzes count? This new policy was not in place when I applied, and was a complete surprise to me and many. Other schools count lab as 25% of a grade, at LIU its only %10. Also Having NCLEX style quizes and tests the first couple of weeks is unreasonable. Let us get used to it and teach us what is expected first, ( cant really think like a nurse if We're not taught how they think) Since I started it has been one curveball after another.....
I'm not against the new policy, in fact it's a welcomed development, but imposing it on students who were admitted based on a different term and agreement is more like breaking a contract.
I believe it's not fair to us students...
No change
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To implement a new grading policy while we have already been in the school and sign a contact that is really unfair for the students because upon entering LIU on the contract that I signed it said that we have to maintain a 76.45 to pass a class. "It did not say anything about only having test and quizzes and then assignments and ati will be added at the end".