Graduate Studies Committees are responsible for evaluating the students in their programs to ensure that they are making satisfactory progress toward a degree. If the Graduate Studies Committee finds that a student is not making satisfactory progress, it may recommend to the graduate dean that the student's program be terminated. A graduate student whose overall grade point average falls below 3.00 at the end of any semester or summer session will be warned by the Office of Graduate Studies that continuance in the Graduate School is in jeopardy. A graduate student who has been dismissed may be readmitted for further graduate study only by petition of the Graduate Studies Committee in the student's major area or by the Graduate Studies Committee of another program that will accept the student. The petition must be approved by the dean of graduate studies.
Academic dismissal is reflected on the student's permanent record.