College Advising Center
Effective Fall 2007
The College Advising Center at Columbia College Chicago is committed to assisting students who are struggling academically. Toward this end, the College Advising Center is enhancing its current policy to provide further support for students who are currently on academic probation.
Effective the fall 2007 term, under the leadership of Associate Director Janet Talbot, the following will occur:
1. A specific hold will be placed on the registration of all students currently on probation due to a cumulative gpa below 2.0. This hold will go on students’ accounts between weeks 4 and 8 of the current term, and will block them from registering for the subsequent term. (During spring, the hold will block both summer and fall registration). We will work with IT (Mike Marquardt) to ensure that this hold only blocks future registration, and not withdrawals from the current term.
2. An email will go out to this group of students, informing them of the new hold and explaining the process to them. The timing of this email will coincide with the placement of the hold.
3. Students who obtain a 2.0 or higher cumulative gpa at the end of the current term will have their holds automatically lifted by Janet Talbot during the first week of January following fall term, the day after grades are due following spring term, and two weeks after grades are due following summer term.
4. Another email will go out to the group of cleared students, informing them that they can now go onto OASIS and register.
5. The list of held students will be managed so that students with NG grades can be monitored and cleared if appropriate as late grades come in.
6. An explanation of this new hold will be added as an initialed item on the Counseling Certificate.
7. College Advisors will be trained to inform probation students of this new process and to encourage students in this situation to still obtain their faculty advising and registration clearance in a timely fashion.
8. College Advisors will not encourage probation students to petition for an earlier registration time/early lifting of the hold. Petitions to lift this hold before final grades are in will be accepted in extreme cases only. An example of an extreme case could include a student who has one semester left to graduate and is very likely to regain compliance.