Academic Standing

Undergraduates

The faculty Scholastic Standards Committee has the authority to place on academic warning, probation, or dismissal any student according to the following standards:

Academic Warning

Any student with 12 or more attempted credits whose cumulative institutional G.P.A. ("institutional" refers to credits earned at Portland State) falls below 2.00 is placed on academic warning. A registration hold will be placed on the student's record until s/he has attended a mandatory workshop offered by the Undergraduate Advising & Support Center (UASC).

Academic Probation

Students on academic warning are placed on academic probation if they do not meet at least one of the following requirements:

1. Raise the cumulative institutional G.P.A. to 2.00
   or
2. Earn a G.P.A. for the given term of 2.25 or above.

Academic Dismissal

Students on academic probation are dismissed if they do not meet at least one of the following requirements:

1. Raise the cumulative institutional G.P.A. to 2.00
   or
2. Earn a G.P.A. for the given term of 2.25 or above.

If only the second of these requirements is met, the student remains on probation subject to the same requirements as those specified above.

A student's academic status may change by repeating courses.

Academically Dismissed Students

An academically dismissed student's status may change by repeating courses but not by grade changes made by the instructor. Academically dismissed students are not permitted to register for any Portland State University day, evening, summer, or Extended Studies credit classes.

A student who is dismissed may be reinstated to the University upon petition to and approval by the Scholastic Standards Committee (see Petitions). If reinstatement is approved, the student will be reinstated to probation status.

Graduate Students

All students admitted to graduate studies (regular, conditional, and graduate certificate) at Portland State must maintain a G.P.A. of at least 3.0 for all institutional graduate credit ("institutional" refers to credits earned at Portland State). All graduate students, especially those in a conditional admission status, are expected to keep in close communication with their departments and to avail themselves of departmental advising.

Academic Probation

An admitted student is placed on probation if:

1. The student's cumulative graduate institutional G.P.A., based on the completion of 9 graded graduate credits after admission to the graduate/postbaccalaureate level is below 3.00 at the end of any term, or
2. The student's term graduate G.P.A., based on a minimum of 6 graded graduate credits, is below 2.67 for a given term.

While on academic probation the student will not be permitted to graduate, to be advanced to doctoral candidacy, to receive approval of the master's degree program (Office of Graduate Studies form GO-20), to receive or continue to hold a graduate assistantship, or to register for more than a total of 9 credits in any term. Removal of academic probation occurs if the cumulative graduate G.P.A. is brought to 3.00 within the next 9 graduate credits in graded courses in the case of probation due to a low cumulative G.P.A., or both cumulative and term G.P.A. of 3.00 or above in the case of probation due to a low term G.P.A.

Disqualification

Academic disqualification occurs if:

1. The student on academic probation for low G.P.A. fails to achieve a cumulative graduate G.P.A. of 3.00 or higher within the next 9 graduate credits in graded courses; or
2. The student on academic probation for a term G.P.A. below 2.67 does not earn at least 3.00 term G.P.A. and does not achieve 3.00 cumulative G.P.A. within the next 9 credits of graded graduate course work; or
3. The student becomes subject to academic probation for a second time.

A student who is disqualified may not register for any graduate courses at Portland State for at least one calendar year.

Readmission After Disqualification

A student who has been disqualified may petition for readmission as a degree-seeking student in a graduate program after one calendar year. Readmission after the mandatory one-year period is initiated by the student's filing of a petition for readmission to the Graduate Council through the Office of Graduate Studies. Readmission is not automatic. To be readmitted the student must meet all current admission requirements, with the exception of the graduate G.P.A.

If the student's graduate program recommends readmission, the Graduate Council may grant readmission, with or without additional academic requirements, or may recommend continued disqualification. If the Graduate Council approves readmission, the student must submit a re-enrollment request to the Office of Admissions, Registration and Records. The readmitted graduate student is subject to all University and program requirements in effect at the time of readmission. The student must raise his or her Portland State cumulative graduate G.P.A. to 3.00 or better within 12 credits of graded graduate course work after readmission, or s/he will be disqualified.

Graduate courses completed at any institution while a student is under disqualification status at Portland State is not applied toward a graduate program at Portland State.