SHARE ON: Photo by: Greg Bowman) It’s been a tough week for students in the collaborative nursing program at Canadore College and Nipissing University. It began Monday when some 200 nursing students checked their marks for their clinical course work to discover most had received either “unsatisfactory” or “in-progress” grades. Ally Harrison, President of the Nipissing University Nursing Society (NUNS), says the grades came as a surprise to the first, second and third-year nursing students. “Students were quite shocked, they thought it was a mistake,” Harrison explained. As per the program’s policy, students who are at risk of not passing their clinical work are supposed to come up with an academic plan with their clinical lead in the middle of the semester. Harrison says no such correspondence happened for anyone. “These students were fully under the impression that they were passing this class because they hadn’t been informed of anything else,” she said.