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P.O. Box 1595

Salisbury, NC 28145

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704-216-3593

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704-216-3608

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Rowan-Cabarrus Community College reserves the right to make changes in the regulations, courses, fees, and other matters of policy and procedure when necessary.

Students are both members of the external community, which includes Rowan-Cabarrus Community College, as well as members of the internal academic community of the college itself. As citizens of the external community, students are subject to all civil laws, the enforcement of which is the responsibility of civil authorities. As members of the academic community, students are subject to Rowan-Cabarrus Community College regulations and obligations. College students, as adults, are expected to exercise mature and responsible self-discipline, to behave with courtesy and integrity, and to maintain appropriate academic standards as well as appropriate conduct standards. Failure to maintain required standards can lead to conditional enrollment or curtailment of enrollment. These standards and enrollment constraints are described in the following paragraphs:

Academic Standards

Students must maintain satisfactory academic standards. Academic evaluation of student performance occurs at the end of each semester. This evaluation may be neither arbitrary nor capricious and must be consistent with previously announced criteria. Minimum satisfactory academic performance is defined as maintaining a cumulative Grade-Point Average (GPA) of at least 2.0 (a grade of "C").

Advising Students Who Experience Academic Difficulty

Instructors are responsible for keeping students informed regularly about their progress in individual courses, with specific responsibility to expedite the reporting of student performance at each measurement point (chapter tests, mid-terms, finals, etc.). Instructors and advisors are responsible for assisting students who are experiencing academic difficulty.

Advice to help students improve performance may include, but is not limited to, completing developmental education courses or subcomponents of developmental programs, carrying a reduced course load, special tutoring, or repeating selected courses. Semester grade reports are sent to all students. The faculty advisor and student should arrange a conference with a Student Services counselor whenever the nature of a student's academic difficulty is beyond the scope of the instructor or faculty advisor's ability to assist. Failure to maintain satisfactory academic standards will result in academic probation and can result in academic suspension.

Academic Probation

A student who fails to maintain satisfactory academic standards at the end of any term will automatically be placed on academic probation for the next term. A student placed on academic probation will not be allowed to register and/or begin class until the student has (a) participated in an Academic Probation Workshop or (b) met with a Student Services counselor. Either of these establishes corrective conditions to help the student achieve satisfactory performance while continuing probationary enrollment. The hold on registration/class attendance would then be lifted and documentation of the corrective actions placed in the student's file. A student on academic probation who fails to achieve satisfactory academic standards by the end of the academic probationary term is subject to academic suspension and will not be allowed to register for the next term without the permission of the Vice President of Student Services or his or her designee.

Academic Suspension

At the end of each semester, the counseling staff at the direction of the Director of Counseling and Career Services, will review the cases of all students on academic probation who failed to achieve satisfactory academic standards. Unless they are able to document individual cases of extenuating or mitigating circumstances that, in their professional judgment, justify extending academic probation for another semester, a recommendation for academic suspension may be made to the Vice President of Student Services. However, students suspended from one program may apply for admission to another program where the likelihood of achieving satisfactory academic standards may be more promising. After one semester of academic suspension, a student may also apply for readmission to the program from which he or she has been academically suspended if the sequence of course offerings makes readmission possible.

Academic Appeals Committee

Appeals of academic suspension will be referred by the Vice President of Student Services to the Academic Appeals Committee no later than five days after receipt. The Appeals Committee will be comprised of the vice president, the student's advisor, a counselor, two students selected by the Student Government Association, and the program head of the program from which the student has been suspended. If the Academic Appeals Committee reverses suspension, the student will be afforded an opportunity to make up all work missed during the appeal process.