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Students who are on probation will be suspended by the College at the end of any fall or spring semester during which their current semester GPA is lower than 2.0 and the cumulative GPA falls below the following standards:

Student Classification Cumulative GPA

Student Classification	Cumulative GPA
First Semester Freshmen	No Suspension
Continuing Freshmen and Sophomores	1.75
Juniors and Seniors	2.00

Suspension under these conditions will be automatic, and the student will be notified accordingly. Pre-enrollment for any future terms will be automatically canceled. The first academic suspension will be for one semester (fall or spring). The second suspension will be permanent. All students returning from a period of academic suspension will be continued on academic probation. For removal of probation refer to the earlier section entitled “Academic Probation.

Reinstatement Following First Suspension

Fall semester suspensions: A student who has been placed on his or her first academic suspension at the end of the fall semester may appeal to the Student Admission & Retention (SAR) Committee for permission to enroll on probation for courses in the subsequent spring term. Such written appeal must be submitted to the Records and Registration Office by the stated deadline and shall be based solely upon an error or extenuating circumstance that the student believes affected his or her academic performance and warrants immediate return to WSC. The SAR Committee reserves the right to require a personal interview with the student prior to ruling on the suspension appeal. In cases where the appeal is approved, such approval does not remove the academic suspension from the permanent record.

Spring semester suspensions: A student who has been placed on his or her first academic suspension at the end of the spring semester may appeal to the Student Admission & Retention (SAR) Committee for permission to enroll on probation for courses the subsequent fall term. An appeal shall be based solely upon an error or extenuating circumstances that the student believes affected his or her academic performance and warrants retention at WSC. The SAR Committee reserves the right to require a personal interview with the student prior to ruling on the suspension appeal. In cases where the appeal is approved, such approval does not remove the academic suspension from the permanent record.

Students suspended at the end of the spring semester will be allowed to enroll in any summer school sessions that may assist them in immediate reinstatement for the ensuing fall term. Reinstatement will be based upon the new cumulative GPA meeting minimum requirements to continue in the fall. Changes in suspension status will not be made for any student until final summer grades have been processed. All summer coursework will be considered in determining fall semester academic standing. In order to ensure due process prior to the fall term, students must appeal the spring suspension to SAR by the appropriate early summer deadline.

Reinstatement Following Second Suspension

No student will be allowed to return to WSC after a second suspension (except to attend the summer term immediately following a spring semester exclusion) without approval of the Student Admission & Retention (SAR) Committee. An appeal to this committee shall be based solely upon an error or extenuating circumstances that the student believes affected his or her academic performance and warrants retention at WSC. If an appeal for reinstatement is granted after a second suspension, but the student officially withdraws from that term of reinstatement, the student must go through the appeal process again to request any future readmission. 

Error shall mean an error in the posting of a grade(s) or a miscalculation of a student’s GPA or academic standing.

Extenuating circumstance shall mean conditions which are more than ordinary such as an accident, unusual factors, or the occurrence of an event or set of events beyond the student’s control that directly contributed to the student being placed on academic suspension by WSC.

For information concerning the filing of an appeal contact the Records and Registration Office.