If you have ever had an “Incomplete” grade, even if you completed the coursework for the course, you know that the UCLA transcript notation policies permanently note that you took the “Incomplete” and indicate a grade change and grade change date. This reveals how much extra time you needed, which is especially discriminatory if you have disabilities or chronic illness.

“Incomplete” grades automatically “lapse” to F grades if not completed in the following quarter. This harmful practice causes GPAs to plummet, which may lead to the removal of financial aid, scholarships or grants and thus poses further unnecessary barriers to academic success.

USAC (Undergraduate Students Association Council) and the GSA (Graduate Student Association) have worked for four years to change UCLA’s Incomplete policy. We are presenting a proposal to the Undergraduate and Graduate Council of the Academic Senate requesting they implement long-overdue changes: eliminate all Incomplete notations, including grade change details and date the grade was changed, and place final grades in the correct enrollment quarter. We are demanding that students stop being treated as less competitive academically and financially because they have taken Incompletes. Finally, in line with the UC-wide norms, we are requesting all Incompletes be extended from a time period of 10 weeks to 1 year.

Please help us help you! Your anonymous testimony will directly help us prove to the university that we must get rid of the punitive Incomplete policies once and for all!