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Student Affairs - Progress Toward Degree Requirements
We monitor students' progress in a variety
of ways and provide feedback to students about their academic careers
in LSBE. Students may find out about the status of their degree requirements
at any time by scheduling an appointment with their advisor or with
a student affairs staff member. The APAS report is an excellent advising
tool and provides information about student's progress in their degree
program. Also, there are some key points in students' careers during
which they receive formal feedback from student affairs staff:
• Application for Candidacy
Students must submit an application
for candidacy to SBE 21 after 30 cumulative credits. Student Affairs staff monitor
students' progress toward finishing the pre-candidacy requirements.
Students receive information about their admission to candidacy (upper
division status), or about how they're making good progress, or that
they are not GPA eligible for admission. If students are not GPA
eligible, a meeting with their advisor or with student affairs staff
is recommended. Applications are monitored each term until the student
either gains admission or changes out of the school. All notification
is sent to the student’s official UMD email account.
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Preliminary Credit Check
Student are required to submit a graduation
plan at 90 credits. Students pick up the graduation plan in SBE 21
and meet their advisor to plan out their remaining requirements. After
the advisor signs the plan, the student must submit the plan to SBE
21. The term before the student is expected to graduate, the Student
Affairs Office sends the student a preliminary credit check which informs
the student about requirements that are still outstanding. The credit
check also contains information about how the student may pre-register
for their LSBE courses in their last term. (We do not monitor requirements
for any non-LSBE majors or minors.)
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Final Credit Check
During the student's term of expected graduation,
the Student Affairs Office performs a final credit check. This credit
check is to assure that the student has indeed registered for the requirements
which were listed as outstanding on the preliminary credit check. If
the student is registered for ALL outstanding requirements, the student
is notified that they must successfully complete those courses in order
to receive their degree. If all requirements are not in progress, the
student is sent a discrepancy memo stating which requirements are still
outstanding.
The degree clearance officer, in the Office of Financial Aid and Registrar,
examines each student's record to make sure
that all final grades were successful attempts
and that there are no "Incompletes" on
the record. If the student's record is complete,
the degree is posted on the record. The student
is sent a transcript which lists the degree
posting. Diplomas are mailed out approximately
four months after the degree has posted.
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