Satisfactory Academic Progress SAP

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Satisfactory Academic Progress (SAP)
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Satisfactory Academic Progress

• What is it, and why is it important?
• Who needs to be involved in the determination of
  SAP?
• How and when must the determination be made?

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Satisfactory Academic Progress

• Student must maintain SAP in his or her course of
  study
• School must establish, publish, and apply
  standards for measuring whether student is
  maintaining SAP
• SAP standards must be same as or stricter than
  standards for non-Title IV aid recipients

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Satisfactory Academic Progress

• Schools SAP standards must include
• Qualitative component, consisting of grades, work
  completed, etc.
• Quantitative component, consisting of maximum
  time frame in which student must complete his or
  her educational program

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Satisfactory Academic Progress

• Maximum time frame for undergraduate programs may
  not exceed 150 of published program length
• Time frame must be divided into increments not to
  exceed lesser of one academic year or half of
  published program length
• Policy must include schedule of work showing
  amount of work student must successfully complete
  at end of each increment
• Each students progress must be assessed at end
  of each increment

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Satisfactory Academic Progress

• SAP standards must be consistently applied to all
  students within categories of students
• SAP policy must include
• Specific policies defining effect of such courses
  as repetitions, remedial courses, incompletes,
  withdrawals, etc.
• Specific appeal procedures
• Specific procedures for student to re-establish
  SAP

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Satisfactory Academic Progress

• For programs over two academic years in length,
  at end of second year, student must have
• C average or its equivalent or
• Academic standing consistent with schools
  graduation requirements

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Satisfactory Academic Progress

• Policy must provide appeal procedures
• School may waive or redefine progress standards
  due to mitigating circumstances
• School defines mitigating circumstances

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Satisfactory Academic Progress

• HOMEWORK!
• When you get back to your office, read your
  institutions SAP policy!