Addendum - Benedict College

STUDENT FINANCES 45Satisfactory Academic Progress Scale (Quantitative)To maintain Satisfactory Academic Progress, a student must attempt and earn a minimum prescribednumber of credit hours for each increment attempted while enrolled at the College. The minimum creditsearned for each increment must equal two-thirds of the credits attempted. The incremental credithours that must be earned are shown in the chart below.Credit Hours IncrementMinimum Credit HoursAttemptedIncrement Earned32 2264 4496 66128 88160 110192 132Satisfactory Academic Progress Scale (Qualitative)To maintain Satisfactory Academic Progress, a student must also earn a prescribed grade point averagefor each increment of credit hours earned at the College. The minimum required grade point averagesare shown in the chart below.Credit Hours EarnedGrade Point Average Required1 – 34 1.535 – 59 1.660 – 84 1.885 – 111 1.9112 – 130 2.0Additionally, all students, except newly admitted students in their first semester, must earn a cumulativeGPA of at least 1.00 by the end of each semester or they will be suspended for one semester.Suspended students may be readmitted if they attend summer school and attain satisfactory academicprogress.THE FRESHMAN INSTITUTEThe Freshman Institute at Benedict College is designed to reengineer the first year experience for allfirst-time freshmen in the first college year to produce better academic success in terms of academicprogress and retention. The Freshman Institute is a college-wide supported, comprehensive advocacyprogram for students in the first year of college designed to transform their first year experience tocreate an effective learning community. Focusing on academic and non academic behaviors, theFreshman Institute serves as the catalyst for enculturation of first-time freshman students and providesstrategies, including curriculum reform, learning communities, and other programs and activitiesdesigned to guide first-time freshman students through first-year success. Ultimately, the FreshmanInstitute seeks to impact the academic, civic, spiritual, social, emotional and intellectual developmentof first time freshman students.THEME“TRANSFORMING THE FIRST YEAR EXPERIENCE TO CREATE AN EFFECTIVE LEARNINGCOMMUNITY”SLOGAN“BC TRANSFORMERS: ENTER WITH PRIDE;EXIT WITH POWER”The Freshman Institute operates as a unit in the Division of Academic Affairs. We believe that greatersuccess for freshmen will require improvement in students’ efforts, sense of purpose, scholarship,responsibility, accountability, personal pride and service to the greater community—local, national andinternational. The College has created a cohesive program from our existing wide-ranging efforts andhas incorporated additional best practices in the first college year which will significantly enhance positiveoutcomes in both student learning and in the environment that supports student learning to bemeasured via substantive and relevant assessment.