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EICCD Fresh Start Policy

Students who are returning to EICCD to pursue a degree or diploma after an absence of three or more consecutive years may request permission to remove one or more of their entire academic terms from future degree and GPA considerations.
 
Eligibility

To be eligible for academic forgiveness consideration, students must meet these requirements:

1. Students must not have enrolled at EICCD for three or more consecutive years.
2. Students must not have graduated from any program at EICCD.
3. Students must currently be enrolled and have successfully completed 12 hours of coursework, with a minimum 2.0 GPA, after returning to EICCD.

Condition

Academic forgiveness is based on the following conditions:

1. Forgiveness will be applied only to an academic term(s) completed prior to the student’s extended absence.
2. All courses and credits that were taken during the chosen term(s) will be removed from consideration for GPA and degree requirements. Students CANNOT combine courses from multiple terms to comprise the term dropped.
3. All courses for the chosen term will remain on the student’s academic record.  Grades for those courses will be changed to the letter “O”.
4. A student will be granted only one academic renewal.
5. All other EICCD academic rules, policies, and requirements apply.
6. When possible, faculty will be contacted when a grade assigned by them has been removed.

Procedure

Students should begin the process by discussing their desire to pursue academic forgiveness with an academic advisor in Student Services or their assigned academic advisor. Students must submit an application requesting academic forgiveness to the Dean of Student Development after they have successfully completed 12 credit hours.

Send us an e-mail or call 1-800-895-0811 for more information.