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Effective: March 28, 1989 AUTHORITY/SOURCE Provost and Executive Vice President POLICY Degree-seeking students are those who have been admitted to a graduate degree program. Students who have applied and are admissible to such programs, but who have not yet been admitted, may take courses for one semester while their applications are being processed.
4.2. MAINTAINING GRADUATE STATUS Effective: March 28, 1989 AUTHORITY/SOURCE Provost and Executive Vice President POLICY To remain in good standing, students must maintain a graduate GPA of 3.0. Only courses required by the graduate program will be counted in the GPA. Undergraduate prerequisites taken after the bachelor's degree will not count toward the graduate GPA. More stringent grade expectations may be required by individual programs. These more stringent requirements must be published in a policies and procedures manual and be available to students.
4.2.2. REPEAT COURSES AND FORGIVENESS POLICY Effective: March 28, 1989 AUTHORITY/SOURCE Provost and Executive Vice President POLICY A forgiveness policy is a way in which a student may repeat a limited number of courses to improve his or her grade point average by having only the grade received on the last repeat used in its calculation. Graduate students must follow procedures described in the catalog to utilize the University's forgiveness policy. Graduate students may repeat no more than two courses with no course being repeated more than once. The course shall be repeated on a letter grade basis. Only the grade and credit received on the second attempt shall be used in computing the graduate GPA. The original grade will remain posted on the student's permanent record.
Effective: March 28, 1989 AUTHORITY/SOURCE Provost and Executive Vice President POLICY An incomplete grade is a temporary symbol given at the discretion of the instructor for work not completed because of a serious interruption not caused by the student' s own negligence. An incomplete grade is not to be assigned to dissertation or thesis credits to indicate that the work is in progress. An incomplete must be made up within two semesters or it will automatically default to the grade that the student earned in the course. There is no extension of the two semester deadline. To complete the course, the student must consult with the instructor. The student must not register again for the course. Individual departments may have more stringent requirements.
Effective: February 11, 1997 AUTHORITY/SOURCE Provost and Executive Vice President POLICY The University requires (9) credit hours, or its equivalent, for Fall and Spring and six (6) credit hours, or its equivalent, for Summer of graduate enrollment for full-time status. The number of hours which a graduate student may carry without special permission is 15. A heavier load must be approved by both the department chairperson and the appropriate academic dean. Recipients of stipends from the University, whether holders of fellowships or assistantships, must be full-time students. Academic deans may grant exceptions to this policy for teaching assistants in those departments which conform to national course load policies in their disciplines.
Effective: March 28, 1989 AUTHORITY/SOURCE Provost and Executive Vice President POLICY Active status entitles students to utilize the University's resources. Doctoral programs require a minimum of 3 credit hours per semester to maintain active status in the program. Masters programs require a minimum of l credit hour per semester to maintain active status in the program. Lapses in enrollment for three or more consecutive semesters require that the student apply for readmission subject to the admission procedures, criteria and policies in effect at the time the reapplication is made (see sections 2.5.1. and 4.2.9.).
4.2.6. DISSERTATION OR THESIS ENROLLMENT REQUIREMENT Effective: February 11, 1997 AUTHORITY/SOURCE Provost and Executive Vice President POLICY After a doctoral student is admitted to candidacy, continuous registration for at least 3 credit hours each semester(including the summer term)is required until the dissertation requirement is fulfilled.Once enrollment in thesis credits is initiated, continuous registration for atleast 1 credit hour each semester (including the summer term) is required until the thesis requirement is fulfilled.
Effective: March 28, 1989 AUTHORITY/SOURCE Provost and Executive Vice President POLICY Course work must conform to the general time limits for doctoral and masters degrees stated in section 3.6.
4.2.8. SATISFACTORY ACADEMIC PROGRESS Effective: March 28, 1989 AUTHORITY/SOURCE Provost and Executive Vice President POLICY Each graduate program must establish procedures to ensure that students in the program maintain satisfactory academic progress toward both the required grade point average and completion of degree requirements. Graduate students must be informed of these procedures at the time they are admitted. The Dean of the University Graduate School is responsible for monitoring program compliance with this requirement.
Effective: March 28, 1989 AUTHORITY/SOURCE Provost and Executive Vice President POLICY A student who finds it necessary to be excused from registration in a graduate degree program for three or more consecutive semesters must formally request a leave of absence from the graduate program. Leave time must be approved by the program director and the academic dean. Leave will be granted only under exceptional circumstances. When there is no mutual agreement the decision will be made by the academic dean. When a student returns from a leave of absence, decisions concerning previous or current program of studies will be mutually agreed upon by the student's supervisory committee and the student.
4.3. CHANGE OF MAJOR OR COLLEGE Effective: March 28, 1989 AUTHORITY/SOURCE Provost and Executive Vice President POLICY If a student wishes to change his or her major field of study or college after having been admitted to a graduate program, he or she must apply for admission to the new program.
4.4. ACADEMIC WARNING, PROBATION, DISMISSAL Effective: March 28, 1989 AUTHORITY/SOURCE Provost and Executive Vice President POLICY Conditions for incurring academic warning, probation or dismissal and procedures for appealing dismissal are specified in the University catalog. Any program or department may have more stringent requirements which may result in academic warning, probation or dismissal. These requirements must be specified in the graduate policies and procedures manual of the department. |
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Dr. Stephan L. Mintz, Interim Dean of the University Graduate School ugsadean@fiu.edu PC 230 · Phone (305) 348-2455 · Fax (305) 348-3433 http://gradschool.fiu.edu << BACK TO TABLE OF CONTENTS |