HORRY-GEORGETOWN TECHNICAL COLLEGE

ACADEMIC SATISFACTORY PROGRESS POLICY STATEMENT

FOR TITLE IV (FEDERAL) STUDENT AID RECIPIENTS

Students receiving financial assistance from the federal government through the Pell Grant, Supplemental Grant (SEOG), Guaranteed Student Loan (GSL), and/or College Work‑Study (CWS) program must be making satisfactory progress towards a degree, diploma or certificate. The standards by which satisfactory academic progress is measured are as indicated in the policy outlined below. You must understand this policy as your aid depends on your maintaining satisfactory progress while attending Horry‑Georgetown Technical College.

Purpose: The Education Amendments of 1976 provide that students shall be entitled to receive financial aid from the

federal government only if they maintain satisfactory progress in the course of study they are pursuing. Subsequent regulations have directed colleges to establish, publicize and uniformly enforce reasonable standards of satisfactory academic progress in order to be eligible to participate in Title IV federal aid programs.

I. DURATION OF ELIGIBILITY

A.              Department of Educational regulations direct that students receiving Title IV aid must complete their degree, diploma or certificate program within established time frames. These time frames are listed in Table I of this policy.

B.              Title IV financial aid programs also require that colleges establish increments that indicate whether students successfully complete a minimum number of quality hours a student must complete by the end of each increment. Quality hours are those hours for which a student receives a grade that computes in the student's grade point average.

C.              Students are not eligible to receive financial aid once they have attempted more than 150 % of the normal credit hours required for a degree or certificate program.  

II. STATEMENT OF SATISFACTORY PROGRESS

In addition to the requirement of paragraph I above, students receiving federal financial aid also must maintain the following academic standards.

1.              Financial Aid Probation/Suspension

a.              Students receiving financial aid who are placed on academic warning by the College will be placed on financial aid probation. They will remain eligible for financial aid as long as they continue to meet the College's standards of progress for academic warning students, and minimum quality hours requirements indicated in Table II of this policy.

 b.             Students who are receiving financial aid will be excluded from further payment if they are placed on academic probation from the College or fail to complete the minimum quality hours required as indicated in Table II. Following suspension of financial aid payments, students must achieve a minimum current semester GPA of 2.0 in six or more credit hours within their program of study and establish minimum quality hours before reinstatement of benefits will be authorized.

 

111. A.     If a student who has not previously received federal financial aid becomes eligible in later semesters, before receiving aid, he/she must meet the same standards as required by a student who has been receiving aid since his/her first semester, i.e., the student must be progressing satisfactorily toward a degree, diploma, or a certificate.

B.              Students who need preparatory courses will be allowed a maximum of two semesters (30 credit hours in the Learning Success Center(LSC)priortoenteringtheirprogramofstudy. Time spent in LSCwillnotcounttowards maximum completion times except when curriculum courses are taken in conjunction with LSC courses.

C.             Students may not receive financial aid for courses which have already been attempted twice.

D.             Students on financial aid will be permitted to change their program two times only without possible loss of aid. A second change will be allowed only upon approval of the Director of Financial Aid. In this case, aid can be available only if the student has not been terminated from aid in a prior program.