REGULATIONS RE: ACADEMIC STANDING

The Board of Trustees recognizes that exclusion from the educational program of the school whether by probation, suspension, or dismissal is the most severe sanction that can be imposed on a student in this College and one that cannot be imposed without due
process. The standards and processes by which a student may be placed on probationary or dismissal status and removed therefrom are described below.

A. STANDARDS FOR PROBATION

1. Academic Probation

A student who has attempted at least 12 units shall be placed on academic probation if the student has earned a cumulative grade point average below 2.0.

a. Students from other colleges who enter College of the Redwoods with a cumulative grade point average below 2.0 will be placed on probation.

b. Any student who is placed on probation must bring his/her cumulative grade point average to a 2.0 average in order to be removed from probation.

2. Progress Probation

a. A student who has enrolled in a total of at least 12 semester units shall be placed on progress probation when the percentage of units in which the student has enrolled, for which entries of "W," "I" and/or "NC" are recorded reaches or exceeds 50%.

b. Students who successfully complete at least 50% or more of the units in this category shall be removed from progress probation.

B. STANDARDS FOR DISMISSAL

1. Academic Dismissal

a. A student who is on academic probation shall be subject to dismissal if the student earned a cumulative grade point average of less than 2.0 in all units attempted in 3 consecutive semesters.

b. A student who should be dismissed, but who earned a current 2.0 or better GPA during the determining semester, will be allowed to continue on probation the following term.

2. Progress Dismissal

a. A student who has been placed on probation shall be subject to dismissal if the percentage of units in which the student has been enrolled for which entries of "W", "I" and "NC" are recorded in at least 3 consecutive semesters reaches or exceeds 50%.

b. A student who should be dismissed, but who successfully completed 50% or more of the units during the determining semester will be allowed to continue on probation the following term.

3. Combination of Academic and Progress Dismissal

a. A student shall be subject to dismissal who has been on probation for two consecutive terms with a combination of academic and progress probation and would remain on probation for a third consecutive term.

b. Students subject to dismissal, but who earned a current 2.0 or better GPA during the determining semester will be allowed to continue on probation the following term providing at least 50% or more of the units for which they enrolled during the semester were completed.

READMISSION

1. Students who have been dismissed from College of the Redwoods may apply for readmission after one regular semester of non-attendance.

2. In extreme cases, in which dismissal resulted from extenuating circumstances, students may appeal directly to either the Director of Admissions and Records (Eureka and Branch Campuses) or the Dean of CRDN or Dean of CRMC. Appeals beyond the Dean of CRDN and CRMC or the Director of Admissions and Records may be made to the last two level of appeals (if necessary):

a. Vice President of Student Services
b. Academic Appeals Committee, which is the final appeal level. Such extenuating circumstances shall be those of acute medical, family or other personal problems of such gravity that they may reasonably be seen as rendering normal academic functioning unlikely or impossible so as to reduce materially the student's grades.

Adopted by Board of Trustees: February, 1980
Amended: May 1992, March 7, 1994