Students looking to graduate early in the College of Arts and Sciences will now face fewer hoops to jump through thanks to a set of new policy changes that take effect this semester. In November, the College’s Educational Policy Committee started the process of updating its early graduation policy, which culminated in the committee’s elected student and faculty members deciding to eliminate a variety of acceleration requirements in order to graduate early. Previously, students who wanted to graduate early encountered various requirements, such as course number requirements and not being allowed to receive credit while taking a leave of absence. But many of these obstacles are set to change with the new application for early graduation. According to Comella, this change is one step to remove barriers to early graduation by “simplifying the residency requirement.”

Source: Daily Sun February 05, 2020 05:03 UTC