Academic Standards of Progress

Administrative Rule
5.0701.08
Council: Academic and Student Affairs Council
Effective date: 08/30/22

Value Statement

The Austin Community College District (“ACC” or “the College”) values academic excellence and encourages students to take responsibility for maintaining satisfactory academic progress. When students do not maintain academic progress, the College will intervene as appropriate to assist students in attaining academic success.

Administrative Rule

The College maintains a system for monitoring academic progress to identify those students experiencing academic difficulty. The College will intervene in a student’s academic life when circumstances warrant, will limit enrollment and course selection if considered necessary, and may employ additional interventions that foster and encourage academic success.

The College’s academic standings and interventions are:

  1. Good Standing: Cumulative 2.0 or greater Grade Point Average (GPA.) The student receives a congratulatory statement.
  2. Warning: A student who does not meet a cumulative 2.0 or greater GPA.

Intervention: Registration hold applied. The student is notified of the academic standing and must meet with an academic guidance team member and develop a plan for improvement in order to register.

  1. Probation: Warning moves to Probation when a student does not meet the cumulative 2.0 GPA during the subsequent semester of enrollment. The student must follow the requirements of a performance improvement plan and will remain on Probation as long as the semester GPA is 2.0 or greater.

Intervention: Registration hold applied. Students must meet with an academic guidance team member and develop a plan for academic improvement in order to register.

  1. Suspension: Probation moves to Suspension when a student on Probation does not meet the standard of a semester 2.0 or greater GPA during the subsequent semester of enrollment. The student is suspended for one semester.

Intervention: Registration hold applied. Student is notified that:

The student is suspended and may not enroll in any ACC credit courses for the indicated period. The student may have the opportunity to enroll for the semester under some stipulations. To be considered for conditional enrollment, the student must meet with an academic guidance team member for an Academic Standards of Progress Review. If the Dean of Student Affairs grants approval, the academic guidance team member and the student will develop a plan for academic improvement, including mid-semester report on academic progress.

  1. Conditional Reinstatement: Suspension moves to Probation after the suspension period. The student will remain on Probation as long as the semester GPA is 2.0 or greater. A student not meeting semester requirements will be suspended for one semester.

Intervention: Registration hold applied. The student is notified of the academic standing and must meet with an academic guidance team member and develop a plan for academic improvement in order to register.

A student’s academic status returns to Good Standing at any point that the student meets the cumulative 2.0 or greater GPA.

Students receiving financial aid also must comply with the Satisfactory Academic Progress Policy for Financial Aid Recipients.

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