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, 6 students (4 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 
W.C. Brown
J.L. Campbell
G.R. Gavalas
E.S. Phinney
D.P. Weitekamp
Mary Neary Morley* 
John F. Hall* 
 

*ex officio member

Misha Imtiaz
Elizabeth Mak
Jasmine Sears
Kedron Silsbee *
Chris Whelan*
Wesley Yu

*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 2009-10.  Meetings begin at 9:00am.

 

Summer Term

Wednesday, August 12

  

Fall Term

Wednesday, September 30

Friday, October 2 - Appeals Meeting

Tuesday, December 1 - Drop Day meeting if needed

 

Winter Term

Tuesday, January 5

Friday, January 8 – Appeals Meeting

Tuesday, March 2 – Drop Day meeting if needed

 

Spring Term

Tuesday, March 30

Friday, April 2 – Appeals Meeting

Tuesday, May 25 – Drop Day meeting if needed

Wednesday, June 9 - Commencement Honors Meeting

Wednesday, June 23 - Last meeting of Spring

  

last updated: 07/15/2009