Departments have the discretion to institute more stringent standards than those enumerated below.

Students in Good Standing

• Receive grades of B or higher in all required courses,
• maintain an overall grade point average (GPA) of B+ (3.3) or higher, and
• have no incompletes.

Academic Notice

• Students who receive a grade of B- or lower are placed on academic notice.
• Students on academic notice must arrange to meet with their advisor, or other faculty member charged with student academic review, to develop a written plan of remediation that may include but is not limited to retaking the course.
• The written plan of remediation will be signed by the student, the student’s advisor, and the Chair of the department or the faculty in charge of the doctoral program. The written plan should be placed in the student’s file and a copy sent to the Dean of Students.
• The School will send to the departments, twice a year, a list of their doctoral students who received a B- or lower on any course. Advisors of record and the department coordinator will receive a list of their doctoral students on academic notice as well.
• A second B- will result in a Dean’s Hold, preventing registration, which will be lifted upon receipt of a signed plan of remediation from the academic advisor to the Office of Student Affairs.

Overall Academic Performance Review

• Doctoral students receive advice and monitoring in the preparation and scheduling of research proposals, comprehensive examinations, and the final dissertation defense, which faculty committees review carefully. Students in good standing may proceed to qualifying/comprehensive examinations without formal review. The departments will notify the School of students in good standing upon completion of their coursework requirements.
• A faculty committee constituted by each department will review the academic record of students who are not in good standing before they may sit for qualifying/comprehensive examinations. Based on this review, the committee may recommend to the School one of the following courses of action:

 - consider the student in good-standing without further conditions;
 - have the student continue on academic notice until specified conditions (e.g., additional coursework, tutoring) are met (at which point the student returns to good standing); or
 - dismiss the student from the program. A recommendation for dismissal from the program requires review by and agreement of the department Chair.

• The School, and not the departments, is responsible for formal dismissal of Dr.P.H. students from the program, following a recommendation from the department sent to the Dean of Students.
• A student must receive a written statement of the departmental review committee’s determination, with copies placed in the student’s record and sent to the Dean of Students.
• The student must, within a year of notification, report to the Dean of Students that all conditions for returning to good standing to the satisfaction of the review committee have been completed.
• Results of qualifying and comprehensive examinations shall be routinely reported to the Dean of Students.

Under consideration by the Doctoral Planning and Policy Committee, October 18, 2004; revised December 13, 2004.