Maintaining Satisfactory Academic Progress
All students are required to maintain a minimum cumulative grade point average of 3.0 each semester.
Failure to do so will place the student on academic probation for the following semester as approved by the Dean/Chair/Program Director. Students who are placed on probation must regain a cumulative 3.0 GPA within the following semester or they will be subject to academic dismissal.
Financial Aid Implications
A student who does not meet Satisfactory Academic Progress (SAP) requirements after one semester is placed on financial aid warning. Financial Aid Warning allows the student to retain their financial aid for one semester without any action taken on the student’s part. The student is notified via IHP e-mail from the financial aid office indicating they have entered this warning status and the repercussions of not meeting SAP for a consecutive semester.
At the next SAP check (end of the next semester), if the student is now meeting SAP requirements, the student is removed from warning status. If after the next SAP check the student still fails to make SAP after the warning semester (a subsequent semester of cumulative GPA < 3.0) the student loses their aid eligibility. The student is notified via IHP e-mail upon losing aid eligibility by the financial aid office.
Students who lose their aid eligibility, due to these two subsequent semesters of not meeting SAP, are eligible to appeal this decision in writing to the Financial Aid Office. Per the Department of Education, the appeal must explain why the student failed to make SAP and what has changed in the situation that would allow the student to make SAP at the next evaluation. All appeals are reviewed by the Financial Aid SAP Committee.