Appeal Regulations
APPEALS WILL ONLY BE CONSIDERED ONCE ALL DOCUMENTATION IS SUBMITTED TO YOUR COLLEGE.
What are academic appeals for?
Designed to adjust enrollment actions when students miss published deadlines due to extenuating circumstances (medical emergencies, mental health problems, etc.). Forgetfulness is not an extenuating circumstance. Documentation is REQUIRED for every appeal.
- Appeals are only considered for situations outside of a student’s control.
- Appeals are processed with an effective date based on the last date of attendance (LDOA), regardless of circumstance.
- Students are responsible for all fees or repayment of refunds incurred as a byproduct of approved appeals.
- Medical or mental health withdrawals do not automatically allow for a full refund of tuition and fees for the semester. Refunds are determined by the effective date of the withdrawal/resignation in connection to the Bursar’s refund schedule. See Bursar’s refund policy at Tution Refund Schedule .
- Registration information cannot be changed after a degree is conferred.
What CAN students appeal?
- Late resignation requests due to documented issues that prevented the student from successfully beginning or completing their semester ( medical issue, mental health issue, etc.)
- Cannot backdate past the student’s last date of attendance in any class.
- Required documentation
- Late drop requests for one or a few courses due to medical or mental health issues
- Documentation must be provided that clearly shows how the medical/mental health issue is affecting that specific course and not others on the student’s schedule
- The drop will be effective on the date the appeal is approved. The drop cannot be retroactive (effective on a prior date) if the student is attending other courses.
- Required documentation
- Late add/swap due to registration issues outside of student’s control
- Adjustment in credit hours
- Professor must verify in writing the student did appropriate coursework for the hours requested
- Required documentation
- Change grading basis from credit to audit and vice versa
- Scholastic drops
Students can only appeal if it is their first (SD1) or second (SD2) scholastic drop and they are appealing for immediate re-entry. Students on indefinite scholastic drop (SD3 +) cannot appeal through this process. Students who have served at least one term of their scholastic drop should submit an application to the Office of Admissions for consideration.
What CANNOT be appealed?
- Students cannot request to drop individual classes due to reasons unrelated to medical or mental health issues. See late drop requests above for more information.
- Not to appeal for issues surrounding the Retention Hold placed on student accounts.
- Alerts are posted on your WebSTAR student center when the hold is applied
- Cannot appeal to remove enrollment that remains after the course cancellation (purge) is conducted.
- The student is responsible for dropping all courses if they decide not to attend.
- Course cancellation only removes enrollment for students that have an account balance for a prior term of $2000 or more.
- Cannot appeal due to advising issues
- Not intended for students to get around SAP requirements
- Not for grade changes (must speak with Professor to begin this process)
- Not for removing failing grades as a result of issues during a completed semester.
- If the student took finals or completed final projects in any class the term is considered complete.
- Not to drop because the student didn’t know important dates, deadlines, or university processes
- Important dates posted on Registrar’s website at Academic Calendar
- Not to drop to avoid failing grades
- Cannot appeal book fees, registration fees, and/or housing fees
Retroactive Academic Appeals
Only allowable for same reasons as above
- 1 year deadline for filing a retroactive appeal. Time begins after final day of classes for the semester being appealed.
- Must be supported by the student’s College before it can be reviewed by the Committee for Student Retroactive Academic Actions (meets once a month)