ONLINE POLICY AND PROCEDURE SYSTEM

 Procedure:         Petitions Processing
 Department:      Registration and Records
 Contact:           reginfo@isu.edu

 

A student may petition the appropriate college dean or committee for consideration of problems of curriculum or admission which are not covered by stated procedures. Curricular petitions must include:

  1. A recommendation from the student's advisor.

  2. A recommendation by the chair of the department offering courses in the subject field or by a special committee overseeing the requirement.

  3. Catalog copy of description of courses transferred from other institutions if the course is to be considered in a test of course equivalency.

All copies of the petition are to be advanced to the Registrar's Office for action after all signatures are affixed. Decisions may require several weeks, and notice of the result will be mailed to the student. A student may petition:

  1. Deletion of Idaho State University grades from computation in the grade point average (GPA) under the conditions which follow:
    1. When a student changes to a radically different curriculum, lower division courses which are not required in nor appropriate to the new curriculum may be eliminated from computation of grade point averages for the purpose of determining probation or graduation at the discretion of the dean who has responsibility for the new curriculum.
    2. Elimination of computation of courses from grade point average by petition also results in the elimination of the corresponding course credits.
    3. This adjustment will not be made until the conclusion of one semester in the new curriculum.
    4. Courses (and their prerequisites) that satisfy any general education requirements in the university cannot be removed from GPA computation, even if alternate courses meeting the requirement have been taken.

  2. Academic dismissal and reinstatement. Students will be notified at mid-semester as to whether they are doing D or F work in any class. The students' advisors will also receive this information so they may work with the students to try to prevent probationary status.


    Following dismissal, under the scholastic probation ruling, a student on first dismissal will automatically be reinstated after a one semester layout, but must meet with an advisor in order to register for classes. A student on second dismissal will automatically be reinstated after a two-semester layout and must meet with an advisor to register. A student who has been dismissed three or more times must lay out two semesters, petition the Readmission Review Board for reinstatement, and meet with an advisor to register. Readmission to the university does not mean readmission to the program or major in which a student was enrolled prior to dismissal. See the appropriate department or college advisor for information on readmission to that program. Readmitted students will be on academic probation and must attain at least a 2.00 GPA for the semester to avoid another dismissal.

    Students who wish to petition the layout period or who have been dismissed three or more times will need to submit a petition to the Readmission Review Board located in the Supplemental Academic Advising Center in the Administration Building. Students who petition to return to the same major in which they are enrolled at the time of dismissal will need to have an advisor or department chairperson add his or her recommendation to the petition prior to submitting it to the Readmission Review Board. The petition deadlines are August 1st for fall semester and December 1st for Spring semester. Decisions reached by the Readmission Review Board are final. The summer session does not qualify for a semester layout. Students who are dismissed must lay out either fall and/or spring semester. Summer semester is not considered to be a semester layout. Students on dismissal may attend summer session at their own discretion but will NOT be eligible for Financial Aid.

    If a student on dismissal attends during summer and does not earn 2.00 GPA, that student will be placed on "continued dismissal" and must fulfill the previously assigned layout period during the Fall and/or Spring semester.

    Dismissed students who have not laid out the required time period, but who attend Summer session and wish to attend Fall or Spring semester, will need to petition the Readmission Review Board for admission unless grades from Summer are sufficient to remove the student from probationary status.

    A student on probation who attends Summer session, but does not earn a 2.00 GPA and does not achieve the appropriate cumulative GPA, will be on continued probation

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  3. Substitution of department requirements. A student may petition to substitute courses in lieu of departmental requirements. The course or courses the student wishes to substitute must be approved by the departmental chairperson.

  4. Substitution of the general education requirements. A student who transfers from another institution may petition to have courses with similar content but different titles than those offered at ISU substituted for courses listed in the general education requirements. Petitions must be approved by the department chairperson of the discipline in which the course being petitioned is offered.

  5. General education requirements deficiencies. A transfer student my petition to waive a maximum of one credit hour in the area of humanities, social science, or natural science to fulfill the general education requirements. This normally pertains to students transferring to Idaho State from an institution which uses the quarter system rather than the semester system.

  6. Pass-No-Pass option. A student may petition to have a P or NP converted to a letter grade. The petition must contain the grade assigned in the class and must be signed by the class instructor.

 

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Questions or comments? Please contact reginfo@isu.edu or (208) 282-2661.

Date adopted: July 2002   Last Modified: 12/12/08 at 03:33:53 PM