Policy
Grays Harbor College is committed to helping students achieve academic success. The primary purpose of the Academic Progress and Performance Policy is to quickly identify and alert students with low academic achievement and to provide them with assistance to improve their academic performance.
Every student who enrolls at Grays Harbor College becomes a partner with the college and the State of Washington with shared responsibilities for student progress and goal completion. As part of the College’s responsibility to each student and to the State that helps to fund each student’s college education, Grays Harbor College has established minimum expectations of student progress and academic performance.
Students must earn a GPA of 2.0 or above. If not, the college will place the student progressively on academic warning, probation, and suspension as outlined in Administrative Procedure Number: 405.1. Additionally, the appeal process is outlined in the administrative procedure.
Academic Warning: A notice to students whose cumulative GPA falls below 2.0, indicating they need to improve their performance.
Academic Probation: A status for students who do not raise their GPA to 2.0 after being placed on warning; it requires close monitoring and support.
Academic Suspension: Occurs when a student on probation fails to meet minimum GPA requirements again; students may be temporarily unable to enroll.
President’s List, President’s Scholar, Honor Roll
A student who completes 12 or more credit hours of courses and earns a grade-point average of 3.50 or higher in any one quarter will be listed on the President’s List. The student transcript will be endorsed with HONOR ROLL for that quarter. A student who receives an associate degree with a cumulative GPA of 3.50 or higher will be honored as a President’s Scholar. The student transcript will be endorsed with PRESIDENT’S SCHOLAR.
Grays Harbor College adopts guidelines to ensure that procedures are developed for academic standards consistent with college and legislative intent. Additionally, the College will maintain appropriate intervention strategies to assist students on academic probation to improve their performance.