Hi! This petition is to help out the engineering majors at UCSC.

The transition to online classes has been anomalous for everyone, and as a result, educational institutions around California and the nation are adjusting their policies to accommodate students in this brave new world of Zoomiversity.

In fact, UCSC itself has also agreed to not count any courses taken for P/NP credit towards the 25% which is allowed! However, the Baskin School of Engineering has not explicitly lifted this requirement for the various engineering majors. Meanwhile, UC Berkeley has issued a temporary directive to "temporarily modify requirements for students affected by the COVID-19 emergency and ensure that progress toward a degree or a minor will not be affected should a student take a class P/NP".

Similar policies have been adopted by UCLA, SJSU, UCM, Stanford, JHU, UPenn, Harvard, Yale, Princeton, Columbia+Barnard, Darthmouth, Cornell, CMU, and many other schools around the nation.



This would be a huge help to undergrads studying under Baskin, because not everyone has an equal opportunity at home to learn the way they get to at school, and GPAs might suffer needlessly as a result.

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