Subject:   Graduate P/D/F and SGCO
Date:      Saturday, August 26, 2006

Dear MIT graduate students,

As you may have heard, there has been an ongoing effort to implement an
option for graduate students to take classes beyond their core
requirement on Pass/D/Fail. Attached is a letter describing this effort.

We are hoping to push ahead during the early fall. We are writing you to
solicit applications for the student steering committee, Students on
Graduate Curriculum Options (SGCO). The purpose of SGCO is to examine
the various issues regarding a proposed P/D/F option and to recommend
one or several possible implementations of a P/D/F option. This
committee is to be comprised of the following positions:

Chairpersons ­ /Emily Fox and Stephen Hou/
Secretary
Members-at-large- /preference will be given to achieve departmental
diversity/

SGCO is not affiliated with any particular student group or department.
However, as P/D/F would impact all graduate programs, we do encourage
potential SGCO members to be open to input from members of their
departments or student groups.

We already have wide support for this proposal, but there is still a
long bureaucratic process which must be followed. We hope that a test
pilot of the program will be in place by Spring 2007.

This is an opportunity to be involved in what we hope will be an
important curricular change in graduate learning. On the committee you
will learn the ins and outs of MIT as well as have face time with some
important big-wigs. The current plan is for SGCO to meet once every two
weeks and as necessary. If you are interested in applying, please send
an email to sgco@mit.edu with the following information:

Name:
Department:
Year:
Previous committee experience:
Why you want to be on the SGCO:

Sincerely,
Emily Fox and Stephen Hou
sgco@mit.edu