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ACADEMIC
FORGIVENESS POLICY
University of West Alabama undergraduate students who
have completed 90 hours of academic credit at UWA and have earned a minimal
grade point average of 2.00 on work attempted at UWA and overall may apply for
the Academic Forgiveness Policy. This policy allows a student to delete up to
three course grades (maximum of twelve semester hours) from the computation of
their cumulative grade-point average. Academic Forgiveness can be granted only
one time.
Deletion of grades from the computation of the cumulative grade-point average is
not available in certain courses, including professional courses in the Division
of Nursing and other programs in which requirements are mandated by other
agencies.
This policy cannot be used by a student who is currently on academic suspension
from the University in order to remove his/her suspension. The student must be
currently enrolled or eligible to return before the policy can be applied to
his/her academic record. The policy also cannot be used to drop the grade of a
course that was assigned due to academic misconduct, a course applied toward a
previously awarded baccalaureate degree, or a course accepted as transfer
credit.
If a deleted grade is a required course for graduation and the same must be
retaken, the course must be repeated at UWA. Once a request for deletion of a
grade has been granted and that grade has been removed from the calculation of
the cumulative grade-point average, the grade and the credit cannot be
restored.
Honor societies or graduate/professional schools may or may not honor the
Academic Forgiveness Policy. The GPA for recognizing honor students at
graduation will be based on all coursework taken and will not take into
consideration courses dropped by the Academic Forgiveness Policy.
Although the dropped course is not computed into the cumulative grade-point
average, the dropped grade will remain on the transcript with the notation that
it has been excluded from earned hours and the GPA.
December 13, 2006; Rev. February 3, 2010
If you wish to
apply for Academic Forgiveness, please complete the following form:
Academic
Forgiveness Application
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