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Graduate Handbook
VI. ANNUAL EVALUATION OF ACADEMIC RECORD
In compliance with Graduate School policies, at the end of each academic year the Graduate Coordinator will review all Political Science student files for academic deficiencies. The Director of Criminal Justice will evaluate Criminal Justice student files. Once the deficient students are identified, the chair of the committee will be consulted on whether students should receive a letter of notification. If students do not have any academic deficiencies, they will receive a letter that states that they are making satisfactory progress in the program. The first deficient letter a student receives serves as an initial warning and has no impact on the evaluation of student performance, if the deficiency is resolved. More than anything else, this letter serves as a heads-up for student and faculty alike. A second warning letter is much more serious, in that it is a result of the student's failure to resolve the deficiency in her/his record. If the student still has not resolved the deficiency in a reasonable amount of time and after consultation with the Chair of the Committee and the Chair of the Department, he or she may be dropped from the program. All letters will be sent to students and placed in their graduate files.
See Appendix 2 for the evaluation form which is completed each year by the Graduate Coordinator or the Director of Criminal Justice for each student in the graduate program. Please review it carefully. Your progress will be considered unsatisfactory if you fail to file a program statement in a timely manner, accumulate or fail to remove "incompletes" from your transcript, fail to complete your M.A. essay or dissertation in a timely manner, fail preliminary examinations, fail to enroll or complete required coursework, or receive a grade below B-. In addition, any graduate student who fails to maintain a cumulative grade point average of 3.00 or higher for all course work subsequent to admission to the Graduate School will be dropped from the University. [ Next page ]
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