Incomplete Grade Policy

The mark “I” is assigned to a student who has been in attendance and has done satisfactory work within three weeks of the close of the semester, and whose work is incomplete for reasons acceptable to the instructor. An incomplete grade should be for extenuating circumstances only. It is the student’s responsibility to initiate the incomplete process. The student must get an incomplete card from the Registrar and then negotiate the incomplete with the instructor. If the instructor allows the student to receive an incomplete, the instructor then returns the card to the Registrar when final grades are submitted.

Under extenuating circumstances such as those stated, an instructor may submit an incomplete card on behalf of the student. The following circumstances are considered extenuating:

Student is hospitalized or under a doctor’s orders to stay home and is unable to get to the College to fill out the form.
The student is incarcerated.
There is a death in the immediate family, defined in the TMC personnel policy manual.
A situation that is completely out of the students control is considered an extenuating circumstance and will be determined by the instructor.

The registrar enters the "I" grade for the instructor when the grades are submitted for the semester. The incomplete work must be completed by the end of the third week, of the next semester, in order to receive a grade other than the one that was submitted with the “I.” The three-week stipulation does not apply to the summer session for the spring. At the end of the third week, and if the student has not re-enrolled, the “I” will automatically be changed to the letter grade submitted by the instructor. Students are not notified when incomplete grades are changed.