SATISFACTORY PROGRESS FOR STUDENTS PARTICIPATING IN REGULATED PROGRAMS	No. 4-17b	Rev. 9-12-95
		Date 5-2-91

I. POLICY

Weber State University, in compliance with Federal, State and Institutional regulations, will monitor satisfactory progress, which includes monitoring academic and required credit-hour progress, of students participating in regulated programs.

II. DEFINITIONS

A. Regulated Programs

Extra-curricular and financial aid programs required to monitor academic and required credit-hour progress of participating students. Regulated programs include, but are not limited to, financial aid, academic and activity scholarship, work study, intercollegiate athletic, international student, veteran and student-activity programs.

B. Participating Student

Student who has made application to and has been accepted in a specific regulated program.

C. Required Credit Hours

General education hours, specific University requirements, major and minor hours including electives required for the major/minor and prerequisite courses and general electives required for the completion of a degree.

1. Required credit hours prior to a student's declaration of a program of study will be based on the requirements for the Associate of Arts or the Associate of Science in General Studies, including the electives within those degrees.

2. Required credit hours for students completing more than one major, more than one minor or a minor not required by their major will be based on the first complete single program of study listed.

3. Required credit hours for students completing more than one program of study at the same time (i.e. A.S. and B.S.) will be based on both programs.

D. Satisfactory Progress/Academic Standard

Adherence to University academic standards as defined by Weber State University PPM 4-17, Academic Standards. Students will be allowed to participate until they are suspended from the institution or terminated based on criteria established by the specific regulated program.

E. Satisfactory Progress/Required Credit-Hour Standard

Completion of a specific number of credit hours and satisfactory progress toward the completion of a degree.

1. The minimum number of credit hours the participating student is mandated to satisfactorily complete is determined by criteria established by the specific regulated program.

2. Satisfactory progress toward a degree is defined as the satisfactory completion of a minimum number of required credit hours (see II. C. above). If a student satisfactorily completes an excess of required credit hours in a quarter, the excess hours will be banked to compensate for a possible required credit-hour deficit.

III. PROCEDURE

A. This policy will be implemented in stages. The first stage will establish a manual evaluation with appropriate warning, probation and disqualification penalties for intercollegiate athletics. The second stage will establish an electronic evaluation with appropriate penalties for regulated students.

B. Participating students must select a program of study (declare a major, minor if required, degree, and catalog year) by the deadline corresponding to their intended degree:

Institutional Certificates during the first quarter

of enrollment

Associate Degree or by the time 36 hours have

Two-Year Certificates been completed

Bachelor Degrees by the time 72 hours have

been completed

Graduate Degrees during the first quarter

of enrollment

C. Students not meeting the required academic standard (see II.D.) will be placed on probation or disqualified from participation according to the criteria established in Policy 4-17.

D. Students suspended due to academic standard deficiencies will be required to reapply to the specific regulated program (athletics, financial aids, etc.) for participation.

E. Students not meeting the required credit-hour standard (see II.E.) will be placed on probation or disqualified from participation in the specific regulated program according to the following criteria:

1. Freshmen and Sophomores (less than 90 credit hours)

a. Warning: a deficit of 1-10 credit hours;

b. Probation: a deficit of 11 or more required credit hours;

c. Disqualified from participation: students will be disqualified if they fail to reduce their deficit required credit hours by two credits each quarter while they are on credit-hour probation.

2. Students who have accumulated more than 90 credit hours (Junior-level)

a. Such students who have one or more deficit required credit hours will have one quarter on probation and during that quarter must reduce their deficit by at least two credit hours.

b. Students failing to reduce their deficit by at least two credit hours per quarter will be disqualified from participation.

F. Students disqualified from participation due to deficit required credit hours may regain eligibility to the regulated program by:

1. Continuing to enroll outside the regulated program and reducing their deficit to zero.

2. Continuing to enroll outside the regulated program and reducing their deficit to within the warning category and requesting approval to participate through an authorized regulated program committee and eligibility supervisor. If approved to participate, their continued participation would be based on reducing their required credit-hour deficit by two credit hours per quarter until they have a zero deficit.

G. Credit counted toward satisfactory completion of the required credit-hour requirement must be in accordance with institutional policy.

1. Grades must meet the minimum graduation requirement for each course and program.

2. Repeated courses not offered as repeatable for credit will qualify as required only the first time an acceptable grade is earned.

H. Developmental courses will be counted toward required credit load only if they are taken during the first 36 credit hours of collegiate enrollment. Exceptions must be approved by an authorized regulated program committee and eligibility supervisor.

I. Records of participating students will be reviewed electronically on a quarterly basis. If a satisfactory progress deficiency is identified, the student will be notified via a grade report message as to the type and the extent of the deficit. Students not meeting satisfactory progress requirements will be encouraged, via a grade report message, to seek academic guidance from an advisor.

J. Participating students desiring to change their major will begin their new major with the same deficit required credit hours they had accumulated in their previously identified major.

K. Transfer students will begin with zero deficit required credit hours regardless of their previous academic program, but their transfer hours and GPA will transfer according to institutional policy.

L. A student will be allowed to work on one program of study in each of the three different degree areas at a time; for example, a student could concurrently be working on an IC in Nursing, an AS in General Studies, and a BS in Gerontology and could be tracked for progress in all three programs.

M. A student will be allowed to pursue only one major and one minor in a program of study. Exceptions must be approved by the department chair of the currently declared major.

N. A student who is disqualified because of registration problems with closed classes will be allowed one extra quarter probation if the registration log shows that the student attempted to register for required courses.

O. Students will be referred to individual regulated program offices for additional requirements and guidelines.

IV. ADDITIONAL REQUIREMENTS

Standards higher than the minimum requirements here outlined and higher than those mandated for participation in outside regulating organizations may be established by individual programs according to procedures in the program's approved policies. Appeals concerning these individual program requirements will be made directly to individual programs.