Administrative Rule No: 4020-11

Title: Academic Standing

Purpose
Linn-Benton Community College applies academic standing regulations to ensure student academic performance is consistent with progression toward the completion of declared degree and/or certificate requirements.

Statement
Degree-seeking students registered for credit classes after the drop/add deadline has passed each term are subject to academic standing regulations for that term. Students are considered to be in good academic standing if they earn a 2.00 GPA or higher each term and maintain a cumulative GPA of 2.00 or higher. Students who are not meeting academic standards may not be eligible for continued enrollment. Students on Academic Warning, Academic Probation, or Academic Suspension will be notified of their status via their LBCC email account.

 Good Standing – Students with both a term and cumulative GPA of 2.00 or higher are considered to be in Good Standing.

Academic Warning – Students will be on Academic Warning when:

  1. their term GPA drops below 2.00, or
  2. their cumulative GPA is below a 2.00 and they have attempted 36 credits or less.

Students who do not achieve a subsequent term and/or cumulative GPA of 2.00 or higher during their Academic Warning term may be placed on Academic Probation.

Academic Probation – Students will be on Academic Probation when:

  1. they are on Academic Warning or Academic Probation and their term GPA is below a 2.00 and they have attempted 18 or more credits, or
  2. their cumulative GPA is below a 2.00 and they have attempted 37 or more credits.

Students who do not maintain a subsequent term and cumulative GPA of 2.00 may be placed on Academic Suspension.

Academic Suspension – Students will be placed on Academic Suspension when they are on Academic Probation, and both their term and cumulative GPA are below a 2.00, and they have attempted 37 or more credits. Students on Academic Suspension will not be allowed to register for classes until they have an Academic Suspension Appeal to Return approved.

Appeal to Return

Students who are academically suspended must submit an Appeal to Return prior to re-enrolling in credit courses. Deadlines to submit appeals for each term will be listed on the LBCC website. Appeals to Return that are submitted by the appeals deadline each term will be reviewed and decided by the Academic Appeals Committee prior to the drop/add deadline for the following term. Appeals not received by the deadline will be reviewed during the next appeal review period in the following term. Students who are approved to return may need to complete particular requirements to re-enroll, including but not limited to meeting with LBCC academic support staff, taking a limited number of credits, or being limited in the types of classes they may take until they have demonstrated academic improvement. 

Minimum Academic Standard for Continuation in a Program

Students must maintain a 2.00 GPA in all major-specific course requirements to continue in a program. Students who do not meet this requirement may petition their program department for reinstatement. Some programs may have more restrictive requirements, which are indicated in the college catalog.

Date of Adoption: 8/13/84
Dates of Revision: 11/19/91; 10/7/08; 3/1/12; 6/2/16; 04/06/23; 04/30/24
Date of Last Review:  4/2/2020; 04/06/23; 04/30/24