{"id":26909,"date":"2026-02-04T10:20:07","date_gmt":"2026-02-04T15:20:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/history\/?page_id=26909"},"modified":"2026-02-04T10:21:35","modified_gmt":"2026-02-04T15:21:35","slug":"grade-grievance-procedure","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/history\/academics\/grade-grievance-procedure\/","title":{"rendered":"Grade Grievance Procedure"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><strong>HISTORY DEPARTMENT GRADE GRIEVANCE PROCEDURE<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">If you feel you have been unfairly graded in a History course, please begin by discussing your concerns with the instructor and following the instructor\u2019s policy for grade reconsideration.\u00a0There is no additional appeals process for an individual grade in which the assessment expectations and grading rubric was clearly described, and no appeals process for a final course grade fairly determined by the method of calculating the final grade presented in the course syllabus.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">If you believe your grievance rises to the level of <strong>arbitrary<\/strong>\u00a0<strong>grading<\/strong>, you may follow BU\u2019s official grade grievance procedure:<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/academics\/policies\/policy-on-grade-grievances-for-undergraduate-students-in-boston-university-courses\/\" data-outlook-id=\"cdbcdf25-356c-4271-aff0-66bee20e6fba\">https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/academics\/policies\/policy-on-grade-grievances-for-undergraduate-students-in-boston-university-courses\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">If you follow this procedure, you would need to submit documentation and evidence of <strong>arbitrary grading<\/strong>, described in the link above.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>HISTORY DEPARTMENT GRADE GRIEVANCE PROCEDURE If you feel you have been unfairly graded in a History course, please begin by discussing your concerns with the instructor and following the instructor\u2019s policy for grade reconsideration.\u00a0There is no additional appeals process for an individual grade in which the assessment expectations and grading rubric was clearly described, and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23821,"featured_media":0,"parent":16538,"menu_order":5,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/26909"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/23821"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26909"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/26909\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26910,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/26909\/revisions\/26910"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/16538"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26909"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}