New Policy or Policy Revision
Fall 2020
Undergraduate
Second Chance Provision Policy Revision-Addendum
General - Not Department Specific
General - Not College Specific
SACSCOC Credentials Guidelines:
1. Faculty teaching undergraduate general education and/or baccalaureate courses: Doctorate or Master’s degree in the teaching discipline or Master’s degree with a concentration in the discipline (a minimum of 18 graduate semester hours in the teaching discipline).
2. Faculty teaching graduate and post-baccalaureate course work: Earned Doctorate/ terminal degree in the teaching discipline or a related discipline (a minimum of 18 hours above the Master’s degree in the teaching discipline).
Qualifications:
Does this faculty member hold a terminal degree in this discipline or a related field?
Additional Qualifications Complete this section to provide additional qualifications to meet the SACSCOC credentials guidelines. Identify all additional qualifications that apply and explain each item in the justification textbox. Indicate the dates of these additional qualifications and clearly describe the relationship between these qualifications and the course content and/or the expected outcomes of the course(s) assigned to faculty member. Supporting documents such as vita, copies of licenses and certificates, etc., should be submitted with this form by clicking the "attach file" link below. External validation of additional qualifications should be supported by these supplemental documents.
Back in March, an update was made to the Second Chance Provision policy. The two items that changed were:
Minimum credit hours to be completed dropped from 24 to 15
Verbiage added that this policy only applies to courses taken at UNA
The reasonings for these changes were:
1. To clarify that this policy is not applicable to transfer course(s).
2. If we used it for transfer courses, we may be removing coursework that was used
towards a prior degree.
3. Removing transfer work after admission may alter a prior academic standing, which
should not be modified.
4. Removing transfer work after admission could have financial aid and/or scholarship
implications.
5. Grades for transfer courses do not affect graduation.
However, verbiage from the original policy indicates this could apply to transfer courses by references in the following:
Any undergraduate student who has been readmitted to the University after an absence of three or more years from higher education can earn second chance status, which provides an opportunity to eliminate from computation of the grade point average any grades of D, F, or WF received "before admission" or readmission to UNA.
To earn second chance status, the student must achieve a grade point average of at least 2.0 during the first 15 credit hours of completed course work at UNA "following admission" or readmission.
Students meeting these standards must file a formal application in the Office of the Registrar to eliminate from computation in the grade point average any grades of D, F, or WF received "before admission" or readmission.
Any student "admitted" or readmitted to the University after an absence of three years or more will be informed of the Second Chance Provision in the letter of admission.
This is to propose an addendum to this policy update to remove the references to "admitted", “before admission” and “following admission” which could be inferred to apply to transfer courses.