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Birmingham-Southern College Catalog 2015-2016
A student who does not successfully complete all of his or her registered
courses in a given term may be determined to be an unofficial withdrawal.
A student who attends at least one class session, ceases attending all
courses, and does not officially withdraw from the College, is considered
to have unofficially withdrawn and the student’s awards are subject to
proration, regardless of when the College determines that the student has
unofficially withdrawn.
Satisfactory Academic Progress for Title IV Financial Aid
A recipient of Title IV federal financial aid must maintain certain standards
of academic progress toward graduation, and the College is required
to have and enforce a policy to check academic progress annually. The
College’s policy is based, in part, on the following definitions.
For the purpose of this policy statement, the following definitions apply.
Regular semester
denotes fall term or spring term.
Full-time
students are enrolled in at least three units per semester.
Part-time
students are enrolled in fewer than three units per semester.
Completed unit
refers to a unit successfully completed with a passing grade.
Attempted unit
refers to a unit attempted and either successfully or
unsuccessfully completed. Attempted units include incompletes, dropped
units, official withdrawals, unofficial withdrawals, unsatisfactory grades,
failing grades, and repeated units.
Title IV programs
include Federal Pell Grant, Supplemental Educational
Opportunity Grant, Perkins Loan, Direct Loan, Federal Work Study, and
any other program defined as Title IV by the federal government.
The eligible Title IV applicant at the College must meet all of these
minimum requirements: qualitative, quantitative, and maximum time
frame.
Qualitative Requirement
Minimum cumulative grade point average:
1.500 cumulative GPA from 1- 6.75 attempted units
1.800 cumulative GPA from 7-14.75 attempted units
2.000 cumulative GPA 15+ attempted units