Current Students: Academic Forgiveness

When to use this form:

• Academic forgiveness is intended for the student who is returning to college with a grade point deficiency.
• This policy covers only those students who have not been enrolled as a full-time student (12 or more semester credit hours) at any institution of higher learning during the four consecutive academic years immediately preceding the readmission semester.
• This policy is limited to students who have not yet been awarded their first academic degree.
• Academic forgiveness will be granted only once for any student.
• To be eligible for academic forgiveness, a student who does not qualify for readmission because of a low GPA may be admitted to the College and placed on academic probation.
• When and if all prerequisite conditions have been met, academic forgiveness will be granted upon the successful completion of twelve credit hours of courses numbered 100 or above with a minimum GPA of 2.0.

Who needs to sign?

• Student
• Advisor

How to complete:

• The student picks up the form reads the back carefully.
• The student then signs three places and the advisor review and signs.
• The form is then returned  to Enrollment Management.

Other Information:

• Be very careful when handing out this form, it is a strict process to grant forgiveness.
• The entire policy is on the back of the form, stress to students to read it carefully.
• This does not remove the courses from the students’ transcript, only the calculation of their GPA. (it appears as a D~ or F~).
• There is a separate form for BOG students (STU.T.301.BOG).