Petitions Instructions for Staff
An academic petition should be used to request any exception to an approved academic rule or policy. This page provides information for staff regarding the campus-wide Academic Petitions Policy process. Instructions for students and the petitions form can be found on the Student Petitions page.
A. Retroactive late drop --
- UG [Advising & Academic Standards Committee (and Faculty if needed)]
- GR [Graduate Staff & Academic Standards Committee (and Program Director if needed)]
B. Late add/drop after the withdrawal deadline from a course --
- UG [Advising & Academic Standards Committee (and Faculty if needed)]
- GR [Graduate Staff & Academic Standards Committee (and Program Director or Faculty if needed)]
C. Enroll in more than the maximum credit hours permitted per semester --
- UG [Advising]
- GR [Graduate Staff & Program Director]
D. Repeat course policy --
- UG [Advising & Academic Standards Committee]
- GR [Graduate Staff & Academic Standards Committee]
E. Program time limit extension requests --
- GR [Graduate Staff & Program Director & Academic Standards Committee/Dean's Office]
F. Readmission/Reinstatement (e.g. RW to P2)
- UG [Advising/Admissions Office & Academic Standards Committee/Dean's Office]
- GR [Graduate Staff & Program Director & Academic Standards Committee/Dean's Office]
G. Accepting a course taken longer than five years ago --
- GR [Graduate Staff (& Program Director or Faculty as needed)]
H. Extend an incomplete I/IE contract beyond the policy designated period (see the Grade Notations section of the catalog)
- UG [Advising & Faculty & Academic Standards Committee/Dean's Office]
- GR [Graduate Staff (& Faculty or Program Director as needed) & Academic Standards Committee/Dean's Office]
I. Senior Residency Requirement (take course off-campus during last 36 credit hours) --
- UG [Advising & Academic Standards Committee/Dean's Office]
J. Transfer of Credit Policy --
- GR [Graduate Staff & Program Director & Academic Standards Committee/Dean's Office & Office of the Provost]
K. Pre-requisite/co-requisite waiver --
- UG [Advising & Faculty]
- GR [Graduate Staff & Faculty]
L. Apply a course toward a specific degree requirement --
- UG [Advising & Faculty & Dean's Office]
- GR [Graduate Staff & Faculty/Program Director & Dean's Office]
M. Fulfill discipline sequence --
- UG [Advising & Faculty & Dean's Office]
- GR [Graduate Staff & Faculty/Program Director & Dean's Office]
N. Undergraduate Student Requesting to Enroll in Graduate Course --
- UG [Advising & Faculty/Program Director]
O. Non-degree guest student requesting to have an exception to the standard grade mode for a course --
- UG [Advising -- START only & Faculty]
P. Other--
- UG and GR [Advising]
- “Other” petitions -- students must see advising office
- If new type of petition, it must first go to the Provost Office to evaluate whether it needs a new category and to determine workflow
The workflow for the petitions process can be viewed through this Lucid flow chart.
Power users are able to:
- Train end users
- On-board new users
- Maintain documentation location within unit
- Understand documented workflow process from end to end
- Point person to report issues to CRM team
- Point person for submitting enhancement requests to CRM team
The power users for each college are:
- CASL
- Susan Gassel
- Kyle Sutherland
- CECS
- UG: Lisa Remsing
- Grad: Deidra Berry
- CEHHS
- UG and Grad: Amanda McBride
- COB
- UG: Lori Ormsby
- Grad: Mary Howard