Columbia Law School Offers Pass/Fail Grading Amid Gaza Protests

Columbia Law School in New York is offering an optional pass/fail grading scale as the university struggles to deal with Pro-Palestine student-run encampments on its campus.

Students may elect a course to be graded on a full credit or fail basis up until an hour before taking the final exam for that course, according to a memo sent to the student body, which was obtained by Bloomberg Law. The optional grade shift was offered to students May 1. Final exams will resume remotely May 2.

“We know that the current final exam period has been challenging and unpredictable, and we ...