Send Junior Off to College and Then Go Back Yourself via Project Win-Win

[Sally_Rubenstone]

<p>Today's Chronicle of Higher Education presents a long article on "Project Win-Win," which is designed to boost the nation's college-completion rate by re-enrolling former students who dropped out without many credits left to complete. </p>

<p>See To</a> Pump Up Degree Counts, Colleges Try to Invite Dropouts Back - Government - The Chronicle of Higher Education </p>

<p>What especially caught my eye was a brief mention of several participating institutions that are offering "academic forgiveness" to returning students who want to re-set their GPA's.</p>

<p>As the author of College Confidential's "Ask the Dean" column, I receive countless questions from adults who got off to a terrible start in college as teenagers and who would love to put their sorry erstwhile grades behind them and begin again with a clean slate.</p>

<p>I suspect that if all Project Win-Win colleges offered such forgiveness, they could up the rate of takers.</p>

[JustAMomOf4]

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What especially caught my eye was a brief mention of several participating institutions that are offering “academic forgiveness” to returning students who want to re-set their GPA’s.</p>

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Our local state university does this. </p>

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The academic forgiveness policy shall apply to undergraduate students who withdraw from Kutztown University and seek readmission after a period of no less than four years. Upon readmission, these students will start over. The grade point average (GPA) and individual course grades earned during the previous period of attendance will remain part of the permanent transcript record. A notation will be made on the transcript record indicating that the Academic Forgiveness policy was applied and that calculation of the overall grade point average is based solely on grades earned after re-entry. Students will maintain credits earned previously in courses for which a final grade of “C” or better was recorded. Credit toward a degree will not be granted for courses in which a grade less than “C” was earned during the previous period of enrollment.
Students who receive Academic Forgiveness must take at least 24 additional credits of graded coursework at KU before a degree will be granted.
Academic Forgiveness may only be applied once to a student’s academic record.

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<p>The 24 credits can be taken at the CC and the credits transferred easily.
I believe that Penn State does this as well.</p>

[Sally_Rubenstone]

<p>Very reasonable approach. Makes me proud to be a Pennsylvania native. ;)</p>