Pepperdine Students Will Lose Convo Credit Per Uncompleted Course Eval

MALIBU, CA - In the heat of course evaluation season, the Pepperdine administration announced that students who fail to complete all their course evaluations on time will get one convocation credit deducted from their transcript per uncompleted course evaluation.

“It is called dead week for a reason. I don’t have the time nor energy to roast all of my mediocre professors right now. Pepperdine should stop using convocation credits as a method to extort their students. I would rather pay a $50 fine than this!” complained Charles Yu, 20, a junior Business Administration major.

The convocation office explained that convocation credit is a reflection of a student’s relationship with Jesus Christ. They are a form of spiritual brownie points that can be added or deducted based on a student’s spiritual conduct. Not completing course evaluations, the administration has argued, is akin to falling short of ideal Christian living.

Ephesians 4:22-25 states, “You were taught, with regard to your former way of life, to put off your old self, which is being corrupted by its deceitful desires; to be made new in the attitude of your minds; and to put on the new self, created to be like God in true righteousness and holiness. Therefore each of you must put off falsehood and speak truthfully to your neighbor, for we are all members of one body.” In light of Paul calling us to adopt a new self and speak truthfully to our neighbors, the University wishes all their students to emulate this calling and to practice transparency in evaluating their professors.

Rumors have surfaced that the administration is pushing this measure in an effort to increase their sample size of student reviews with the intention of using the data to finally select a visiting faculty lottery for the upcoming study abroad program in North Korea.