Mid-Semester Grades Timeline
This timeline outlines vetting of the Mid-Semester Grade Policy,
July 2025
Provost’s Council received a presentation and discussed potential for a mid-semester letter grade change at Provost Council Retreat.
October 2025
Faculty Senate Executive Committee received a presentation from the Associate Provost for Undergraduate Studies concerning replacing the U-grade system with a mid-semester letter grade submission system. Regular discussions followed regarding a possible framework for a mid-semester grade submission policy.
November 2025
Faculty Senate Executive Committee (FSEC) expressed unanimous support for replacing the U-grade system with a mid-semester letter grade submission system. FSEC requested that such policy would include language informing students that mid-semester grades only reflects students’ academic performance at the time of submission and reporting. FSEC also supported efforts to develop a mechanism for grade pass through directly from the D2L learning management system to PeopleSoft for letter grade submission.
Faculty Senate Executive Committee requested that Provost Office reach out to student government association to get their feedback regarding a potential mid-semester grade policy.
Subsequently, Associate Provost Wilburn reached out to Reagan Stephens, Student Body President.
January 2026
Student Government Association (SGA) House of Representatives passed “A Resolution to Support the Adoption of Mid-Semester Grades” with unanimous support. Note: This was not a joint SGA/Faculty Senate or joint SGA/Academic Affairs resolution.
February 2026
Faculty Senate Executive Committee reviewed SGA’s resolution and continued to express unanimous support for framework of a mid-semester grade policy.
Faculty Senate: SGA resolution for mid-semester grades was originally placed on the February agenda for Faculty Senate. However, SGA leadership was unable to attend meeting and this agenda item was postponed till the March meeting.
March 2026
Faculty Senate received a presentation from the SGA vice president concerning the resolution to support the adoption of mid-semester grades, a presentation from the Faculty Senate Instructional Support and Evaluation Committee (ISEC) with a resolution for a timely feedback policy, and a presentation for the initial framework for a mid-semester grade policy.
Provost Council Meeting included discussion on SGA and ISEC resolutions. Consensus was established to limit submission of mid-semester grades (A-F) to first-year and transfer students, and junior- and senior-level students with C- or below at mid-semester.
April 2026
Faculty Senate received a presentation from the Provost with revised tenets of a mid-semester grade framework following discussions and support from deans, FSEC and SGA. Faculty Senate collectively decided not to support a mid-semester grade policy. The Provost indicated his support and intent to move measure for consideration by the Cabinet, and inform Cabinet of Faculty Senate’s decision to not support the mid-semester grade policy.
Faculty Senate endorsed a joint SGA/ISEC resolution for timely feedback on course assignments and noted that a resolution is not policy. Faculty Senate called on the Provost Office to pursue measures for enforcement of the resolution.
Provost Council was notified of the lack of faculty senate support for a mid-semester grades policy. Discussion led to support by the Provost Council.
TCU Cabinet met on April 14. The agenda included a presentation of the mid-semester grade policy. Following review and discussions, the TCU Cabinet approved the mid-semester grade policy.
Summer 2026 – Summer 2027
Develop and pilot a grade pass-through directly from the D2L learning management system to the PeopleSoft system.
Fall 2027
Implement the Mid-Semester Grade Policy.