Grading Student grades will be posted on our.mhgs within 1 week of receipt of grades from faculty. Grades cannot be released over the phone or e-mail.  

Practical Classes are defined as Practicum and Counseling Internship.

All Practical courses are assigned a grade of CR (credit given) or NC (no credit given). If a student receives a NC grade in First Year Practicum Part I OR II, MACP or M.Div Practicum II, or MACP or M.Div Practicum III they will need to repeat that practicum course until they receive credit, CR, to advance to the next practicum course.

First Year Practicum Parts I & II is one course that must be taken over two consecutive trimesters. At the conclusion of Part I, the Practicum Leader and Practicum Facilitator, in conjunction with the Faculty Practicum Coordinator, will review the progress of all of the practicum students. Students who are in good standing in the course will receive a grade of IP (in progress) on their fall transcripts and be allowed to maintain registration in First Year Practicum Part II for spring trimester. Those students who are not in good standing will receive a grade of NC (no credit) and will be required to repeat Part I and Part II the following year. At the successful conclusion of both Part I and Part II, the student’s IP grade from Part I will be changed to a CR (credit) and the student will also receive a CR grade for Part II and one term credit each for fall and spring trimesters will be awarded on the student’s transcript.

Since First Year Practicum Part I & II is a two trimester course and must be taken consecutively, if a student completes Part I with good standing in the course but is unable to finish Part II due to any reason, academic related or not, they will receive an NC (no credit) for both Part I and Part II and will be required to repeat both parts the following year.

It should be noted that even though registration and payment for Part I and Part II are done separately in order to accommodate financial aid and billing requirements, it is considered one course to be completed over two trimesters and so grading and credit assignment are handled accordingly.  

 

The Grade Scale for all course assignments receiving letter grades is as follows:

A - The grade A represents an unusually competent paper that clearly makes its argument, contains extraordinary style, cleverness of argumentation, and/or thoroughness of research.
B - The grade B represents a competent and thorough response to the assignment.
C - The grade C represents a paper that is less than competent by a clear failure to communicate or to support arguments.

The Grade Scale for all courses receiving letter grades is as follows:

 

A	97-100	4.0	Excellent – superior achievement of course objectives
A-	94-96	3.7
B+	91-93	3.3
B	88-90	3.0	Good – competent & commendable achievement of course objectives
B-	85-87	2.7
C+	82-84	2.3
C	79-81	2.0	Poor – less than competent achievement of course objectives
C-	76-78	1.7
F	75 or below		Failing – unacceptable achievement of course objectives

 

This grading scale is posted in all course syllabi and is used in the submission of final grades for a course (reflected on a student’s transcript). All courses, unless noted otherwise, are required to give letter grades.

 Concerns regarding grades (including pass/fail courses) are to be resolved between the student, teaching assistant (if applicable) and faculty member. Students must contact the faculty member to dispute their grade within 4 weeks of grades being posted. If resolution is not obtained through conversation, a student has until the end of the term following the one in which the grade was received to complete a formal grade appeal. To appeal a course grade formally: