Academic Renewal Petition

Academic Renewal
This policy will be effective with the summer term of 2003 for students who have met the criteria outlined in this policy. Students who return to the University of Missouri-Columbia to pursue an undergraduate degree after an extended absence may request permission to remove one or more of their complete academic terms from future degree and GPA considerations.

Eligibility
To be eligible for academic renewal consideration, students must meet these requirements:
1. Students must not have enrolled as degree-seeking at the University of Missouri-Columbia for four or more consecutive years from the last term of enrollment as reflected on the student's transcript.
2. Students must not have graduated from the University of Missouri-Columbia.
3. Students must either:
a) after their absence, be admitted as degree-seeking and have earned a minimum of 12.0 credit hours with at least a 2.5 GPA of record for those hours at the University of Missouri-Columbia within the past 12 months; or
b) have attended as a non-degree seeking student and have earned thereby a minimum of 12.0 credit hours with at least a 2.5 GPA of record for those hours at the University of Missouri-Columbia within the past 12 months and subsequently have been admitted as degree-seeking by the University.

Conditions
Academic renewal is based on the following conditions:
1. Students may be granted only one academic renewal.
2. All courses and credits taken during the chosen terms will be removed from consideration for GPA and degree requirements. Students may not combine individual courses from multiple terms to comprise the semester(s) dropped. All courses and grades for the chosen terms will remain on the student's academic record.
3. Renewal may be applied only to academic term(s) completed prior to the student's extended absence.
4. Students who choose academic renewal must meet the degree requirements of the University of Missouri-Columbia undergraduate catalog in effect at the time of their readmission.
5. Degree requirements met during the dropped terms will have to be repeated.
6. To be eligible for a degree, students must complete a minimum of 24 credit hours of course work awarded by the University of Missouri-Columbia after the granting of academic renewal.

Procedures
1. Students should discuss their desire to pursue academic renewal with an Academic Adviser in the college they wish to enter.
2. Students should submit an application for academic renewal to the Office of the University Registrar.
3. For each term approved for academic renewal a note will appear on the transcript.

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