Petition Letter
Dear, Associate Dean of Academics
My name is Velouria Raymond. I'm in first year and I got the pleasure of studying at bader college for the first half of my year. I am petitioning today to change ASTR 101 (Fall,2023) to CR.
I didn't do as well in this course as I was hoping, some assignments I excelled in and got 80s/90s and other assignments I didnt even pass. It is not normal for me to not pass assignments so I would go to office hours and ask for an explanation or if I could redo the assignments and the response I got instead was “work harder on the next assignments” or “read the readings more”. In which I did I would spend countless hours on each assignment and I did the readings and made notes and to my understanding I understood the topic but when getting assignments handed back I was told I didn't do the reading and that I should do better. I decided to finish off the year since it already started and hoped that this would change. On one of my assignments which I did after hearing the news about Bader closing down I got a 9/100 which I asked to redo since I was under a ton of stress at the time of writing the assignment and my teacher william Joyce said no but said we could set up a zoom meeting and talk about the assignment to show my understanding in which he would decide or not to boost my grade, once I responded to the email with my availability I never heard back from him.
Then in the transition back home from Bader College I struggled a lot right before exams with family issues that have been going on while I was away but since I was back home I had to help deal with them. I also had to start working since I’ve been back so I could still pay for my bills so every week since I’ve been back I had to work 40 hours a week which was hard to balance between my professors and I and with my work schedule. My family issues have since then been resolved and life is back to normal. Also, when I come to Kingston in January I won't have to work as much since I will be in residences.
I am on scholarship as it is the only way I can afford to come to school in which I do not believe that having such a low grade is good as it could mean I could lose my scholarship and if I change ASTR 101 to CR to my understanding from what i’ve been told it doesn't affect my GPA.
Below I have inserted images of the emails between William Joyce and I to show that I did reach out and try to improve my grades and to show that he never responded to my email about the zoom meeting.
I am hoping to change ASTR 101 (fall 2023 to CR) since I didn't do as well as I had hoped and if I don't get it changed this course it could severely mess up my GPA and my scholarship could drop me.
Thank you for your consideration,
Velouria Raymond
My name is Velouria Raymond. I'm in first year and I got the pleasure of studying at bader college for the first half of my year. I am petitioning today to change ASTR 101 (Fall,2023) to CR.
I didn't do as well in this course as I was hoping, some assignments I excelled in and got 80s/90s and other assignments I didnt even pass. It is not normal for me to not pass assignments so I would go to office hours and ask for an explanation or if I could redo the assignments and the response I got instead was “work harder on the next assignments” or “read the readings more”. In which I did I would spend countless hours on each assignment and I did the readings and made notes and to my understanding I understood the topic but when getting assignments handed back I was told I didn't do the reading and that I should do better. I decided to finish off the year since it already started and hoped that this would change. On one of my assignments which I did after hearing the news about Bader closing down I got a 9/100 which I asked to redo since I was under a ton of stress at the time of writing the assignment and my teacher william Joyce said no but said we could set up a zoom meeting and talk about the assignment to show my understanding in which he would decide or not to boost my grade, once I responded to the email with my availability I never heard back from him.
Then in the transition back home from Bader College I struggled a lot right before exams with family issues that have been going on while I was away but since I was back home I had to help deal with them. I also had to start working since I’ve been back so I could still pay for my bills so every week since I’ve been back I had to work 40 hours a week which was hard to balance between my professors and I and with my work schedule. My family issues have since then been resolved and life is back to normal. Also, when I come to Kingston in January I won't have to work as much since I will be in residences.
I am on scholarship as it is the only way I can afford to come to school in which I do not believe that having such a low grade is good as it could mean I could lose my scholarship and if I change ASTR 101 to CR to my understanding from what i’ve been told it doesn't affect my GPA.
Below I have inserted images of the emails between William Joyce and I to show that I did reach out and try to improve my grades and to show that he never responded to my email about the zoom meeting.
I am hoping to change ASTR 101 (fall 2023 to CR) since I didn't do as well as I had hoped and if I don't get it changed this course it could severely mess up my GPA and my scholarship could drop me.
Thank you for your consideration,
Velouria Raymond