Student Academic Standing
Dean’s List
Full-time Undergraduate Students
Dean’s List recognition for full-time matriculated students is awarded at the end of each fifteen-week semester. To be eligible, students must have earned a minimum of 12 graded semester hour credits with a minimum 3.5 semester average. Students are ineligible for the Dean’s list if they have either: been issued “incomplete” grades at the time the Dean’s List was produced or were enrolled in pass/fail courses during the grading period, reducing the student’s gradable course load below 12 credits.
Senate Approval: May 26, 1989
Admin. Approval: June 18, 1989
Part-time Undergraduate Students
Dean’s List recognition is awarded to Part-time matriculated undergraduate students at the end of the Spring semester. To be eligible, students must have been part time during both the fall and spring semesters and successfully completed a minimum of 12 graded semester hours within that academic year (fall and spring semesters) with a minimum grade point average for the year of 3.5. Students are ineligible for the Dean’s list if they have either: been issued “incomplete” grades at the time the Dean’s List was produced or were enrolled in pass/fail courses during the grading period, reducing the student’s gradable course load below 12 credits.
Senate Approved R-07-09-03
Administrative Approval 10/26/07
Academic Probation Policy
Academic Warning: Students shall be placed on Academic Warning the first fall or spring semester in which their cumulative GPA falls below 2.0.
Academic Probation: Students who are on Academic Warning and fail to raise their cumulative GPA to the minimum 2.0 in the following fall or spring semester shall be placed on Academic Probation. Students on Academic Probation shall be allowed to continue at the University but shall remain on probation provided their semester GPA is at least 2.3. Once the cumulative GPA reaches 2.0, the student shall be removed from Academic Probation and shall be returned to Good Standing. Students shall have three (3) semesters to raise their cumulative GPA to 2.0. If the cumulative GPA is below 2.0 after the third semester of probation, the student shall be academically suspended.
Academic Suspension: Students on Academic Probation shall be Academically Suspended in the fall or spring semester if (1) their semester GPA is below a 2.3 and cumulative GPA is below a 2.0, or (2) their cumulative GPA remains below 2.0 after the third semester of probation. Students who are academically suspended from Western Connecticut State University are no longer matriculated at the University.
Suspended students can appeal for reinstatement to regain matriculation status, they may do so during or subsequent to the semester in which they are non-matriculated. Reinstatement to the University does not guarantee acceptance or reacceptance to programs with GPA requirements higher than 2.0. All appeals shall be made to their Academic Dean. Once a student’s dismissal appeal has been granted, if a cumulative GPA 2.0 is not attained in the first semester back, the student will be dismissed. Students are ineligible to appeal if they are dismissed a second time.
Dismissed students may register part-time as non-matriculated students but must achieve a cumulative GPA of 2.0 or higher prior to attempting 30 credits as a non-matriculated student, to return to good standing and apply for readmission to their last program of study.
Admin. Approval: April 18, 1986*
Administration Approval of Revisions: May 31, 2024
*Clarification of President: Of course, individual schools or programs may have standards for probation and dismissal from that school or program that are higher than the University standards. A student can be on probation or be dismissed from a school or program and still be in good standing at the University.