Previously, a student had to complete 24 credit hours per academic year. This policy has changed so that the minimum number of credit hours a student must successfully complete is 75% of the attempted hours during the academic year.

The minimum GPA of 1.8 has changed to 1.7, depending upon the number of credit hours attempted.

All Federal Pell Grants, Federal Supplemental Education Opportunity Grant (FSEOG), College Access Program (CAP Grant), Federal Work-Study, Federal Perkins Loans and William D. Ford Federal Direct Loan Program (Direct Loans), ACG and SMART.

Satisfactory Academic Progress is based on BOTH completing the required number of attempted hours AND maintaining a minimum grade point average.

Attempted hours are defined as those for which a student receives a grade of A, B, C, D, F, I, W, WP, or WF.

Grades A, B, C, and D shall be considered as credits earned.

Grades F, W, I and Audit—No credit hours will be considered as earned, however, these hours will be considered as hours attempted for the purpose of determining Satisfactory Academic Progress.

A student who fails to maintain satisfactory progress as defined will not be permitted to receive federal or institutional financial aid.

A student must successfully complete a minimum of 75% of the credit hours attempted during the academic year. Successful completion for this purpose is defined as receiving a grade of “D” or better.

Satisfactory progress standards are reviewed at the end of the spring semester.