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This year The Glassman Symposium will be held on October 29 and will feature faculty and alumni talks virtually from 7 to 8:30 p.m.

Presentations will be made by:

Kimberly Diah ‘13, PhD Clinical Neuropsychology Postdoctoral fellow, University of Iowa Hospitals and Clinics BEYOND CONCUSSIONS: DOES POSITION PLAYED AND RACIAL IDENTITY IMPACT COGNITION IN FORMER NFL ATHLETES? 7:25 P.M.

Frederick Prete, PhD Assistant Professor of Biology MANTIDS TO MOBILITY: HOW INSECTS ARE HELPING CHILDREN WITH VISUAL IMPAIRMENTS 7:45 P.M.

Rebecca Delventhal, PhD Assistant Professor of Biology FLY TBI: A MODEL TO STUDY INJURY-INDUCED NEURODEGENERATION 7:05 P.M.

Michael Fiske ’10, PhD Northwestern University Institute of Neuroscience WHEN A NETWORK GOES ROGUE: MODELING EPILEPTIC CHANGES IN THE SUBICULUM 8:05 P.M.

The link to the Virtual Robert B. Glassman Memorial Brain, Mind and Behavior Memorial Symposium can be obtained by requesting it via email to debburma@mx.lakeforest.edu.

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Inspired by Dr. Ibram Kendi’s work of How To Be An Antiracist, Lake Forest College is pleased to launch a video series titled "Choose Anti-racism." This series is a digital library of short educational videos created by College faculty and staff that reflects on each of the chapters from Dr. Ibram Kendi’s work. The videos will be released throughout the year and offer insight on how, as a campus community, we can apply the lessons from each chapter to make Lake Forest College truly anti-racist. 

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Please find below an important resend of information you received from our office late last month.  With an Advising Period now underway (Oct 19-30), we want to make sure both you and your advisors are well-versed on the following procedures specifically for the current fall term:

·       Declaring a course under the Pass-Fail arrangement, plus what exemptions and restrictions are in place surrounding this policy

·       Withdrawing from a course with an automatic “W” grade, and how to secure approval for Partial Credit Recovery

Enacted policies for Fall 2020 term: (1) P/F limit exemption, (2) Partial Credit Recovery

1. Cumulative P/F Limit Exemption for Fall 2020. As in the Spring 2020 semester, any courses taken Pass-Fail in the Fall 2020 semester are exempted from the maximum of 4.0 credits of P grades that can appear on a student’s transcript at any one time.

However:

a. Departmental restrictions on Pass-Fail grades for major and minor course requirements shall not be waived for any courses in the Fall 2020 semester.

b. A “Pass” grade in a Fall 2020 course shall also not automatically satisfy any minimum letter grade requirement for prerequisite courses.

c. Pass-Fail is not the default grading system for Fall 2020. Students must declare the P-F grading arrangement by going through the well-established procedure of electronically submitting a Pass-Fail Registration Form to their advisor, who then forwards their approval to the Registrar’s Office at registrar@lakeforest.edu.

2. COVID-19: Partial Credit Recovery (PCR) for Fall 2020. As in the Spring 2020 semester, this PCR policy allows students who withdraw from a course having completed at least half the coursework to recover half of the attempted credit for a course, rather than lose the entire credit. The policy is available for attempted courses valued at either .5 or 1 credit. Currently this policy would only be available for the Fall 2020 term.

a. Procedure. If a student withdraws from a course halfway through the term or later (October 12-December 4)), they may request instructor approval for PCR. Unlike the Spring 2020 semester, PCR for Fall 2020 requires instructor approval (in addition to advisor approval) as part of the Course Withdrawal Form submission.

b. Eligibility. Students are eligible for PCR when, at the instructor’s discretion, they have: (1) completed at least 50% of graded coursework and the normally required hours for in- and out-of-class work (140 hours, outside of finals, for a full-credit course) and (2) achieved a D- or better average for that graded coursework.

c. Transcript. If PCR is approved by the instructor via signature on a W form dated on or after October 12, no letter grade gets submitted. Rather, the student transcript shows 1) a W for the original course (no adverse impact on one’s GPA), and 2) a generic College credit (COLL 119) with a grade of P. The P applies toward the 32 credits for graduation, but does not satisfy any FFC or major/minor/program requirements. The P cannot be converted to a letter grade.

d. Retaking PCR courses. If the student retakes the course in the future, they would retain the partial-credit designation on their transcript as COLL 119 and the W from the original semester. The P for COLL 119 will not affect the grade if they retake the course. The student must complete the entire retake of the course to earn a new credit. Students can’t obtain PCR for the same course more than once