Tuesday, June 08, 2010

Return to Good Standing

We have these academic warnings at work. When a student isn't performing they wind up on a warning or on probation. When that happens they get a letter, sometimes called "letter of doom" that explains the warning and what it means. Pretty much I think they go largely unread.

In many cases the student gets it together and the action is positive. In our work meeting this says "RTGS" or "Return to good standing." In the past I'm not sure if we ever did a letter of doom that wasn't gloomy when this happened. This semester we have a new person sending the letters and she asked what we should send when a student returns to good standing.

I suggested this:

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