ANNOUNCEMENT

GRADE FORGIVENESS POLICY CHANGE--UPDATED 5/14/09
The Grade Forgiveness Policy has been revised effective with the fall 2009 Undergraduate Catalog. The new policy states: "Students who receive a grade of C- or lower (grades of C-, D+, D, D-, F and WF) may repeat up to five courses to improve the overall grade point average. A course may be repeated once with grade forgiveness applied. Grade forgiveness is automatically applied only to the first repeat of a course with an original grade of C- or less, regardless of how many times the student may elect to repeat the course for other reasons." (Changes are indicated in red.)

WHAT DOES IT MEAN?
To clarify for students and advisors, this means that a student may use grade forgiveness ONE TIME PER COURSE (as in the current policy) but ONLY FOR FIVE COURSES during the student's enrollment at the University (new policy). Students who have already used grade forgiveness, no matter how many times, will be able to use grade forgiveness an additional total of five times beginning this Fall. Once the five-time limit has been reached, grade forgiveness will not be applied, and all attempts at taking a course will be calculated into the student's attempted hours and GPA. 

HOW DOES IT WORK?
The process will work as follows:

If a course is repeated multiple times, only the first repeat of an individual course will be used to forgive the original course.

For example: A student earns a D in MATH 163, repeats the course and earns a lower grade, which forgives the first grade. The student then enrolls in the course a third time and earns a higher grade. Both the second and third grade will be used in cumulative GPA calculations.

Only the first five repeated courses will be forgiven. Students are not given an option to select which course might be forgiven.

QUESTIONS?
Students who have questions about how the new policy might affect them should first consult their academic advisor.