Student Completion Policy Audit
Tools for identifying and prioritizing institutional barriers to success
This resource will help you determine whether your institution’s academic rules, regulations, and processes might create unnecessary obstacles for students’ degree progress and completion.
Nearly every academic policy, no matter how minor, plays a role in the student experience. But most policies are determined one at a time, sometimes arbitrarily, and some can pose significant barriers to degree progress and graduation.
For example, dozens of strict bursar hold policies may prevent students from registering for courses at all. On the other hand, overly lenient course repeat policies might lead some students to proceed too far down the wrong path without guidance from an academic advisor.
To help you rethink and revise your own academic policies in support of student success goals, we have identified 18 policies with a particularly high impact on students. Start by completing the diagnostic exercise with a small committee.
Then, explore detailed descriptions and relevant resources for each of the 18 policy areas.
- Degree plan requirements
- Degree milestones
- Experiential education requirements
- Transfer credit articulation
- Remedial education
- Course load
- Major declaration
- Excess credit accumulation
- Bursar holds
- Multi-term registration
- Course wait lists
- Early academic alerts
- Course repeats
- Course and institutional withdrawal
- Academic probation and dismissal
- Student communications
- Student aid renewal
- Non-registered students
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