{"id":23144,"date":"2020-11-25T16:41:10","date_gmt":"2020-11-25T21:41:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/?p=23144"},"modified":"2020-11-25T16:41:10","modified_gmt":"2020-11-25T21:41:10","slug":"masu-calls-on-students-to-push-for-pass-fail-option","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/masu-calls-on-students-to-push-for-pass-fail-option\/","title":{"rendered":"MASU calls on students to push for pass\/fail option"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Previously last week,\u00a0CHMA spoke with the president of the Mount Allison Students\u2019 Union, Jon Ferguson, about introducing a pass\/fail option for students this semester.<\/p>\n<p>At the time, Ferguson shared that the MASU was pursuing \u201can emergency meeting of the University Senate to push for a pass\/fail option for students.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>In an Instagram video posted on November 22nd, President Jon Ferguson and Vice-President Academic Affairs Charlie Burke inform students that the emergency meeting is not happening.<\/p>\n<p>Ferguson stressed in the interview last week that it is important that Mount Allison not only provide the pass\/fail option, but allow students to choose between a letter grade or pass\/fail after seeing their final mark.<\/p>\n<p>Burke says that \u201cDecember 8 is a little bit late in the semester\u201d for a meeting to secure the pass\/fail option.<\/p>\n<p>Both Burke's and Ferguson's statements can be found in the audio below:<\/p>\n<!--[if lt IE 9]><script>document.createElement('audio');<\/script><![endif]-->\n<audio class=\"wp-audio-shortcode\" id=\"audio-23144-1\" preload=\"none\" style=\"width: 100%;\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"audio\/mpeg\" src=\"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/Pass-fail-revisited.mp3?_=1\" \/><a href=\"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/Pass-fail-revisited.mp3\">https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/Pass-fail-revisited.mp3<\/a><\/audio>\n<p>Students who need help with stress can reach out to the Wellness Centre at wellness@mta.ca or the CHIMO helpline is available 24\/7 at 1-800-667-5005.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Previously last week,\u00a0CHMA spoke with the president of the Mount Allison Students\u2019 Union, Jon Ferguson, about introducing a pass\/fail option for students this semester. At the time, Ferguson shared that the MASU was pursuing \u201can emergency meeting of the University Senate to push for a pass\/fail option for students.\u201d In an Instagram video posted on&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":69,"featured_media":23143,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[221],"tags":[1756,1221],"radio":[227],"origine":[274,275,277],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23144"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/69"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23144"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23144\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/23143"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23144"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23144"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23144"},{"taxonomy":"radio","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/radio?post=23144"},{"taxonomy":"origine","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/origine?post=23144"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}