Academic Standards

The courses/competencies offered through CBE at UMHB are assigned semester credit hour values.  The enrollment status of CBE at UMHB students is determined based upon the total number of credit hour equivalents (CHE's) in which the students are enrolled at the beginning of each semester.

            Students are required to make measurable progress toward degree completion every term.  Consequently, a student’s academic standing is determined by the student’s progress toward graduation.  There are five categories of academic standing recognized by the CBE at UMHB Program: Good Standing, Warning, Suspension, Warning Continued by Appeal, and Dismissal.  Students completing a minimum of 12 semester credit hours of courses/competencies each term are considered to be making on time progress toward degree completion and, therefore, in academic “Good Standing.”

A student completing less than 12 semester credit hours but at least 3 semester credit hours of courses/competencies in a term is also considered to be in academic “Good Standing.”  However, the student’s progress toward graduation may be delayed.  Students not making on time progress toward degree completion are reminded catalogs are considered valid for six years.  A student who fails to complete the required work for a degree in a six-year interval dating from the student’s first term of enrollment must reorganize his or her degree plan to conform with the current catalog.

Students completing less than 3 semester credit hours of courses/competencies in a term are not considered to be making timely progress toward degree completion and will be placed on academic “Warning” for the following term.  A student who does not complete at least 3 semester credit hours of courses/competencies by the end of a warning term will be placed on academic “Suspension.”  Students who are placed on academic suspension are administratively withdrawn from CBE at UMHB and are ineligible to re-admit for a minimum of one term.

A student may petition being placed on academic suspension in writing to the Associate Dean of Digital Learning and Innovation within 30 days of the warning term end date.  An appeal should state the factor(s) contributing to the student’s inability to make timely progress toward degree completion and describe the measure(s) the student will use to attain academic “Good Standing” if allowed to continue enrollment.  If the CBE at UMHB Program Director approves a student’s academic suspension petition, the student will be given the academic standing of “Warning Continued by Appeal” and will be allowed to enroll in the next available term.

Students allowed to enroll under the academic standing of “Warning Continued by Appeal” must complete at least 3 semester credit hours of courses/competencies by the end of their second warning term.  A student who does not complete at least 3 semester credit hours of courses/competencies by the end of the second warning term will be placed on academic “Dismissal.”  Students placed on academic dismissal are administratively withdrawn from CBE at UMHB and are ineligible to reapply for admissions to the CBE Program.