Office of the Registrar - California Institute of TechnologyCalifornia Institute of Technology
Undergraduate Academic Standards and Honors Committee

   

Responsibilities 

UASH is responsible for awarding a variety of academic honors (e.g., graduation with Honors, and the Green, Frohlich and Sigma Xi prizes) and for ensuring that a consistent set of standards and rules is applied in academic matters involving undergraduates.

  

Members 

UASH is composed of a chair and 8 professors elected by the Caltech faculty, 5 students (3 voting, 2 alternate) selected by the IHC, the Registrar, and the non-voting Undergraduate Deans. The current members of UASH are:

R.P. Sherman, Chair 
D.A. Boyd
W.C. Brown
J.L. Campbell
G.R. Gavalas

E. Mantovan

E.S. Phinney
D.P. Weitekamp
M. Neary Morley* 
D.R. Kiewiet*

B. Green* 
 

*ex officio member

Jennifer Greco*

Bryan Jadot
Christopher Kolner

Mike Paluchniak

Jeff Shen*

*alternate

 

  

Handbook for Students 

The UASH Handbook for Students provides students with information about how to prepare petitions for submission to UASH. It is available in the following formats:

  

Forms 

Forms to submit to UASH are available from the Deans' or Registrar's office or here in PDF format. If you download a form, you may complete it electronically (using the freely available Adobe Acrobat Reader), but must submit it to the registrar's office in person.

Many of these forms will need:

  

Links 

 

Meeting Dates 

UASH meets in the Center for Student Services, Brennen Conference Room, 3rd Floor.  Below are the scheduled meeting times for 2011-12.  Meetings begin at 9:00am.

 

Summer Term 2011

Wednesday, August 10 - Summer Meeting

  

Fall Term 2011

Tuesday, September 27 - First Meeting of Term

Friday, September 30 - Appeals Meeting

Tuesday, November 29 - Drop Day meeting if needed

 

Winter Term 2012

Thursday, January 5 - First Meeting of Term

Monday, January 9 – Appeals Meeting

Tuesday, February 28 – Drop Day meeting if needed

 

Spring Term 2012

Tuesday, April 3 - First Meeting of Term

Friday, April 6 – Appeals Meeting

Wednesday, May 30 – Drop Day meeting if needed

Wednesday, June 13 - Commencement Honors Meeting

Wednesday, June 27 - Last meeting of Spring

  

Summer Term 2012

Wednesday, August 8 - Summer Meeting

last updated: 11/30/2011