Academic Standing Rules (SHAACST) page

The intent of this page is to establish the rules for identifying students who are in academic difficulty and those who have a GPA which qualifies them for the Dean's List.

The rules are established by each student level (graduate, undergraduate, etc.). Additionally, the rules may be specified for each college within a specific level. The rules established on this page are then used by the Academic Standing Calculation process.Each time a grade mailer is produced or revised (with the exception of duplicates or mid-terms), the student is eligible to have their academic standing recalculated when the Calculate Academic Standing Report (SHRASTD) is run.

The validation tables for all coded values used by this rule-based page must have been previously completed.

Fields Descriptions
Term Perform a search from this field to view the academic standing rules created for a specific effective term.
Type The Type (of Hours) field is updatable, but please note that when the type is updated or changed for one record, all other records with the same level, college, term, and current status will also be automatically be updated with the same Type of Hours code.
Note: The academic standing process uses a student's “displayed” GPA rather than the “stored” GPA when determining their academic standing. For example, if a student's GPA is calculated to be 1.987821, that is the value that will be stored. However, if the institution's GPA display rules are set up to round the GPA to three digits, the displayed GPA would be 1.988, and that is the value the SHRASTD process will use to evaluate the student's academic standing.

This page includes the rules for progress evaluation (PREV), the progress evaluation grade exclusions, and the combined academic standing (CAST) rules. Three windows allow the creation and definition of the rules used by the Progress Evaluation Process (SHRPREV). The rules are used to assign progress evaluation codes and combined academic standing codes to student records.

The three windows used for progress evaluation rules are:
  • Progress Evaluation Rules window
  • Progress Evaluation Grade Exclusion window
  • Combined Academic Standing Rules window