ACADEMIC PROGRESS
Academic records will be reviewed at the end of each semester. Students must maintain the required cumulative grade point average of 2.0 in order to be eligible to receive assistance.

The cumulative number of hours completed will be evaluated at the end of each semester. Students must show progress towards successful completion of their degree requirements to maintain financial aid eligibility. Every financial aid recipient must pass at least 67% of credit hours attempted by the end of each semester but may not exceed over 150% of the hours required in their program. For example, if your degree requires 64 credit hours to graduate, you are eligible to receive financial assistance until you have attempted 98 credit hours. Additional time needed to complete the degree beyond the maximum stipulated must be entirely at the student's expense.

Course withdrawals, incompletes, and course failures count as hours attempted, but not completed. Repeated courses and transfer credit hours received from another college will be counted in hours attempted.

At the end of each semester the Financial Aid Office will determine whether students receiving financial aid have successfully completed a minimum percentage of work towards their degree or diploma. According to federal regulations, students attending less than full-time hours will be prorated. All remedial classes are counted if mandatory.

Financial aid recipients will be granted a two-semester probationary period following their first semester of failure to make satisfactory progress. During the probationary period, students can continue to receive financial aid provided they are otherwise eligible. Students have this period to re-establish satisfactory academic progress. If, at the end of the financial aid probation period, the student is able to re-establish satisfactory academic progress, the probation is lifted.

Financial aid will be terminated for students who fail to make satisfactory academic during the probationary semesters.

A student who does not meet the academic requirements for aid eligibility at the end of the second semester of probation may attend the next semester(s) at their own expense in order to make up the deficiencies (grade-point average and/or hours). This only applies if the student has not been placed on academic suspension.

A student who has become ineligible for financial aid has the opportunity to appeal. Appeals may be done for circumstances including, but not limited to, (a) an extended illness or hospitalization of the student; (b) an accident which incapacitates the student for an extended period of time; or (c) the death of an immediate family member. All appeals must be in writing, include supporting documentation and be submitted to the Financial Aid Office for review.