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2013–14 Graduate and Adult Programs Academic Catalog
Adult Programs
Academic Information
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Some academic programs have stricter academic progress
requirements than those listed above. Students should check
academic department sections of the catalog for the specific
grade point requirements of their majors.
Students who are not in good academic standing will be notified
by the Assistant or Associate Academic Vice President of their
college. First-semester freshmen who do not meet the 1.0 average
will usually not be academically suspended in order to provide
some additional time for them to make the adjustment to college
life.
Any student who does not meet the minimum cumulative GPA
required for academic probation will be suspended for at least one
semester. Any student on academic probation for two successive
semesters who is not making satisfactory academic progress is
subject to academic suspension. Any student whose term GPA
is not above 1.0 for two successive semesters and who is not
making satisfactory academic progress is subject to suspension.
The Assistant or Associate Academic Vice President of a college
may make exceptions to the academic progress guidelines when
appropriate.
A student receiving veterans benefits who is on academic
probation for two successive semesters without making
satisfactory progress will be reported to the Veterans
Administration. The veterans benefits for such a student will be
terminated unless the student is making progress toward meeting
the minimum academic requirements for graduation.
Faculty members and other counselors are available to discuss
student progress. The student experiencing academic difficulty
should utilize these personnel, as well as resources available in
the academic assistance center, to help find solutions to academic
problems.
Students on academic warning or probation may be required
to take a special study skills course as a condition for continuing
at the University. Academic warning may preclude involvement in
certain University activities. Students facing academic warning or
probation should consult with the coaches, advisors, or directors
of their activities to learn of academic requirements or restrictions
that may apply to those activities.
A student must maintain satisfactory academic progress
to receive financial aid. Students receiving aid should check
the financial aid section of the catalog to obtain the academic
progress requirements that pertain to particular aid programs.
A student suspended for academic reasons may apply for
readmission during any semester in the regular academic year
following the semester of suspension. A student who is subject to
suspension for a second time may be permanently dismissed.
Attendance
Regular attendance is necessary for the student to receive full
benefit from the University experience. University policy allows
each faculty member to determine and develop reasonable
attendance standards which will meet the particular needs of the
course. See syllabi for attendance requirements for individual
courses.
Course Load
A student’s academic load for any given term is subject to
reduction or limitation by the Associate Academic Vice President
or Director of a particular graduate program for poor scholarship or
excessive work responsibilities outside of college hours.
Repeating Courses
While adjusting to academic life at Cedarville, some new
students earn grades they consider to be unsatisfactory.
Consequently, any first year freshmen students who earn an
unsatisfactory grade in their first two regular semesters of
enrollment may repeat the course at Cedarville University before
the end of their fourth consecutive semester of enrollment.
Under this freshman repeat policy, the cumulative GPA will be
recalculated using the second grade instead of the first.
A similar policy applies to a transfer student. Under the
transfer repeat policy, courses taken during the first semester of
attendance may be repeated within the succeeding two regular
semesters. The cumulative GPA will be recalculated using the
second grade instead of the first.
Under these repeat policies, any course may be repeated.
Although the first grade is no longer calculated into the cumulative
GPA, the course and grade information does remain on the
student’s transcript. In all other cases when a student repeats
a course, both grades are calculated into the cumulative GPA.
However, credit hours for a repeated course may count only once
toward the credits needed for graduation.
Students repeating courses are required to pay all applicable
tuition and fees for those courses. Other program-specific
requirements may be listed under the academic program.
Independent Study
On occasion special student circumstances may suggest
that an independent study course option should be considered.
Such an option might recognize opportunities to explore areas
not covered in normal course structure, reward self-motivated
students, and encourage joint study by faculty and students on
specialized projects.
Individual students and faculty members develop the specific
criteria that must be met for the successful completion of
independent study projects. However, the following guidelines
govern the independent study program:
• Only one independent study project may be undertaken in an
academic term.
• The maximum credit that may be earned for any one
independent study project is three semester hours.
• The faculty member supervising the independent study
and the Associate Academic Vice President or Director
of a particular graduate program must sign the student’s
independent study form. Registration for the independent
study must occur at the beginning of the semester in which
the work is to be completed.
• No more than six semester hours in independent study may
be counted toward the graduate degree.
• In general independent study projects cannot be taken in lieu
of required courses unless special arrangements have been
made through the department sponsoring the course and the
Director of that particular graduate program.
• It is the prerogative of individual faculty members to offer
independent study courses or not.
• Participating faculty members determine the letter grade.
Reservation Deposit
A reservation deposit must be submitted by new and readmitted
students as an indication of their intention to enroll. The amount
of the deposit is $150. This money is credited to the student’s
account and used to cover first semester expenses. A student
must submit a reservation deposit to register for classes. The
reservation deposit is nonrefundable. Instructions for submitting a
reservation deposit may be found at
