Enrollment Guide - Stark State College

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Class attendance
To ensure our commitment to student success, attendance must be
taken in all classes, regardless of modality, starting with the first day of
the class. Faculty may elect to relate course attendance to the course
grading policy. This will be specified in each course syllabus.
For federal financial aid compliance, attendance will be recorded by
the faculty and reported to the College Registrar’s Office. A student is
considered a non-attendee in any course modality when he or she does
not physically attend a class session or does not log in and participate in
the course content as per the federal financial aid guidelines.
Students who receive federal financial aid and do not physically attend
or log into classes will be dropped from their classes and have their
financial aid cancelled or reduced. The federal government mandates
that federal monies for non-attendees who receive federal financial
aid be returned to the Federal Government. Attendance will also be
documented at the end of each semester to verify the last day attended
in each class.
Title IV refund
The Financial Aid Office is required by federal statute to recalculate
federal financial aid eligibility for students who completely withdraw,
stop attending, or take a medical leave prior to completing 60% of a
payment period or term.
Recalculation is based on the percentage of earned aid using the
following Federal Return of Title IV funds formula: Percentage of
payment period or term completed (the number of days completed up to
the withdrawal date) divided by the total days in the payment period
or term (any break of five days or more is not counted as part of the
term). This percentage of completed days is equal to the percentage
of earned aid.
Title IV refund process
Funds are returned to the appropriate federal program based on the
percentage of unearned aid. If you earned less aid than was disbursed,
the institution would be required to return a portion of the funds and/or
you would be required to return a portion of the funds within 45 days.
Keep in mind that when Title IV funds are returned, you may owe a
balance to the institution.
If you earned more aid than was disbursed to you, the institution
would owe you a post-withdrawal disbursement which must be paid
within 120 days of your withdrawal.
Refunds are allocated in the following order:
• Unsubsidized Federal Stafford Loan
• Subsidized Federal Stafford Loan
• Federal Parent (PLUS) Loan
• Federal Pell Grant
• Federal Supplemental Educational Opportunity Grant
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