Can a student use the freshman forgiveness rule if s/he is found “in violation of the Code of Student Conduct” and receives a grade sanction?
As long as the student meets the criteria for the “freshman forgiveness rule,” the student may apply the rule to a grade sanction. As stated in the “University Faculty Rules” dated June 7, 2005, the “freshman forgiveness rule” (Rule 3335-8-27.1) is as follows: If a course in which an undergraduate student receives a grade of “D+,” “D,” “E,” or “EN” taken during the freshman year (the period during which the first forty-four credit hours are accumulated on the student’s official permanent record) is repeated before the end of that student’s sophomore year (when the student will have accumulated a total of eighty-nine credit hours), the original course credit and and grade will be automatically excluded from the calculation of the student’s cumulative point-hour ratio and deficiency points, but will remain on the student’s official permanent record. This action will be subject to the following conditions: • If the grade in the original course was a “D+” or “D,” a student may repeat the c
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