Ohio Administrative Code › Title 3357:15 - Stark State College › Chapter 3357:15-18 - Policy on Admissions › Section 3357:15-18-07 - Standards of academic progress

Current through all regulations passed and filed through July 1, 2024
Standards of academic progress (SAP)
				are a series of standards required to maintain eligibility for federal student
				aid. Requirements include components of completion of credit hours and grade
				point average (GPA) as defined in this policy. Students who do not meet these
				requirements will be disqualified from future federal financial
				aid.
Standards of academic progress
				requirements:
(A)
								Stark state college requires that any student who
			 applies for or receives federal financial aid makes satisfactory academic
			 progress toward an Ohio department of higher education (ODHE) approved degree
			 or certificate. All students are subject to the evaluation of standards of
			 academic progress.
(B)
								Satisfactory academic progress is measured as
			 follows:
(1)
									GPA
			 (qualitative measure): overall grade point average of 2.0.
(2)
									Completion rate
			 (quantitative measure): completion of sixty-seven per cent of the cumulative
			 attempted credit hours, including hours of repeated and developmental
			 coursework. All accepted transfer hours will also be included in this
			 calculation. The calculated percentage will be subject to rounding to the
			 nearest whole number based on standard mathematical rounding
			 rules.
(3)
									Maximum timeframe (quantitative measure): completion of
			 an ODHE-approved degree or certificate within the required number of credit
			 hours as listed in the college catalog for the associate or certificate degree,
			 multiplied by one hundred fifty per cent as determined by office of financial
			 aid. This measure will include all accepted transfer credit hours and up to
			 thirty attempted credit hours of required developmental coursework. If a
			 student changes his or her major or is seeking a second degree, the percentage
			 of completion does not start at zero per cent. A student becomes ineligible,
			 via the maximum timeframe element, at the point at which it becomes
			 mathematically impossible for them to complete the program within one hundred
			 fifty per cent.
(4)
									Successful financial aid grade completions are: A, AH,
			 B, BH, C, UC, D, UD, CR.
(5)
									Unsuccessful financial aid grade completions are: F, W,
			 IN, NC. W, IN, and NC grades do not affect the GPA but are included in the
			 completion rate and maximum timeframe components of the SAP calculation. Once
			 IN grades are changed, the student's GPA, completion rate, and maximum
			 timeframe components are re-calculated. Courses in which a student remained
			 enrolled past the add/drop period and earned a W grade cannot be excluded from
			 the calculation.
(6)
									Repeated coursework (see rule 3357:15-13-08 of the
			 Administrative Code) will count toward the number of attempted hours for
			 completion rate and maximum timeframe calculations. Only the highest grade will
			 be used in the calculation of the student's GPA.
(7)
									All students are
			 limited to thirty credit hours of developmental coursework. Grades are assigned
			 to developmental coursework and will be counted in the GPA, completion rate,
			 and maximum timeframe calculations.