Adamson ends 2nd semester online amid COVID-19 crisis

By Francesquel Arimatea |

Adamson University has decided to end its second semester online amid the crisis that the students face due to the pandemic, following the extension of the Luzon-wide enhanced community quarantine (ECQ). The semester will end on May 16 under the revised schedule and guidelines for the rest of the academic year 2019-2020, according to the recently released memorandum from the administration of ADU.

On-campus and face-to-face meetings after April 30, 2020 are concluded. Instead, students and faculty members are given corresponding dates for uploading lectures, assigning course requirements, compliance, and online submission of requirements.

As for the students’ academic credits for the current semester, the school shall only assign the grades of PASS (P) for students who satisfactorily complied within the compliance period and INC: (150) for those who were not able to comply.

“Credits earned during the 2nd semester of A.Y 2019-2020 shall be excluded in the GWA computation for scholarships and Latin Honors” stated in the memo.

The thesis defense may be conducted either online or face-to-face depending on the type of thesis. Students are given two weeks before graduation to defend their thesis. The graduation is tentatively set some time in October 2020.

“Especially applied only for this semester, a grade of 150 (INC) in a course which is a prerequisite to one or several courses shall qualify a student to enroll the subsequent course” they added, concerning the prerequisite subjects.

Graduating students whose programs require licensure examinations have to attend enrichment classes prior to graduation. The Graduate School and College of Law will be issued separate advisories by their respective deans.

Regarding the Notification of Grades, students are individually notified of their grades or status of compliance through the Learning Management System. Official encoding of grades will be announced on a later date. The complete details are published on the copy of the memo, uploaded by the administration on ADU’s official Facebook page and Twitter account on April 13.

Adamson University assures the whole community that they are continuously adapting and reassessing protocols if the pandemic circumstances call for it. After all, the health and safety of everyone is their utmost concern.

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