Attachment E

Faculty Senate Agenda

March 25, 2010

Motion on Good Standing:

GSPC recommends that “Graduate students whose Sacramento State and cumulative grade point average (GPA) is 3.0 or above are considered in good academic standing.”

This is to be included in the catalog under a subheading identifying “Post-Baccalaureate / Graduate Academic Action Categories”, to parallel the same designations used for undergraduates.

Background: There is an Executive Order relating to academic standing that only applies to undergraduate students. Consistent with that Executive Order, in the catalog, on p. 102, there is a section entitled, "Undergraduate Academic Action Categories" which includes definitions of "good standing", "academic probation," "continued probation," "academic disqualification," etc. On that same page, for grad students, it simply says "See Graduate Degree Requirements / Scholarship, page 93." The problem is, page 93 doesn't have these "Academic Action Categories." Registrar Dennis Geyer, in the absence of these "academic action categories" for grad students, has been using the undergraduate standard for good standing, which stipulates 2.0 or above is "good standing." Aside from the higher standard to which GSPC seeks to hold graduate students, Title V stipulates the standard as 3.0. This motion thus establishes "Post-Baccalaureate/Graduate Academic Action Categories" that define these categories, and further stipulates that "good standing" for graduate students should be set at 3.0 or above.