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Scholarship Student Assessment


FACULTY ASSESSMENT OF SCHOLARSHIP STUDENTS

Due to the increased competition for scholarships, the faculty must assess the work of scholarship students at the end of the fall semester and at the time of spring applications. This assessment will be based on the following:

  1. The fulfillment by scholarship students of the first five scholarship requirements
    listed in the Scholarship Guidelines section.
  2. The assessment of students' work in fulfilling the sixth requirement, participation
    in production work, listed in the Scholarship Guidelines section.
    This assessment, based on the recommendations of faculty members who have
    worked with scholarship students in production, will of necessity be
    fundamentally subjective.

Because a theatre and dance scholarship is intended to assist financially the theatre
and dance student whose work is outstanding both in class and in production, any assessment will be based on a balance of these two parts of a student's work. Outstanding work in production is usually based more strongly on the attitude of the student doing the work than on the skill that the student may have in any particular job.

Production work, whether artistically stimulating or rather dull, must be done well and on time if the production is to be successful and if all those working on the production are to gain maximum educational benefit. Therefore, a student who seeks to contribute more positively and consistently to the qualitative completion of a job will be assessed more favorably than a student who works the minimum time required or who seeks to do only certain kinds of work.


REVOCATION OF A SCHOLARSHIP

The faculty may, at the end of Fall semester, withdraw aid from any student who, in the opinion of the faculty, has not satisfactorily fulfilled all of the requirements for that scholarship, including:

  1. Failure by the student to maintain a minimum 2.0 grade point average in all courses.
  2. Failure by the student to fulfill his or her production responsibilities as a scholarship student as specified in the Student Handbook.

Should the scholarship administrator and/or any other member of the faculty recommend such a revocation, the student(s) involved will be notified in writing or by E-mail and given seven days to request a hearing and review before a departmental fact finding panel. A panel, consisting of three scholarship students and two faculty members appointed by the department head in consultation with the faculty, will seek to determine the merits of both the recommendation for revocation of the scholarship and the appeal of the student involved. The panel will present its recommendation to the entire faculty, which will then vote on the matter. The faculty vote will be final.

In the event a scholarship student fails to fulfill the six established criteria (see Scholarship Guidelines, Requirements), the faculty reserves the right, after consultation with the scholarship director, to vote to revoke the scholarship or to place that student on probation for one semester. This latter option, which grants the student a probationary period in which to meet established criteria, is not guaranteed, and is solely at the discretion of the faculty vote.