Opening Doors to Excellence

One of the options available to you is to participate in the Opening Doors program. Participating students enroll in Guidance 507 a 3 unit grade earning course. The grade and units earned from this course can help you improve your academic standing. Since the course is for credit, tuition and fees do apply.

Your probation standing is based on your cumulative academic performance. The semester in which you earn a cumulative GPA of 2.0 for work completed a Chaffey College and/or have less than 50 percent of your units attempted in grades of W, I, NC and/or NP, you will be off probation. Your third consecutive semester on probation will result in your dismissal from the college.

If you are dismissed, you will not be allowed to register for the next consecutive semester after the dismissal action. To be readmitted after being dismissed, you must sit out the dismissal period, reapply online to the college, attend a Readmissions Contract Workshop, meet with a counselor to complete and educational plan and be cleared to register for classes.

Each college has their own rules that apply to previously dismissed students or students on probation from other colleges. Consult the catalog or contact the admissions office at the college you plan to attend to see if there are any restrictions or if there is a special admissions process for academically disqualified students.

As mentioned earlier, several options are presented at the information session. One of them addresses this possibility. Please attend the information session for more information.

Unfortunately, the only way your registration block can be cleared is if you attend the information session. Please make the necessary adjustments to your schedule and secure transportation to attend a session that is most convenient for you.

Grades earned in summer are applied to the following fall semester to determine probation standing. By itself summer is not a semester, so grades earned in that session are not immediately used to regain good standing.

Your academic record is permanent and time does not relieve your previous performance. Your probation standing is based on consecutive semesters on probation without regard for the time between those semesters. That means if you enrolled in courses 10 years ago then re-enrolled in the current semester your next consecutive semester would be the current one even though ten years have passed between terms.

There are two answers to this question.

1. Grades earned at another college may be used to replace previous substandard grades if the course taken is equivalent to a course taken previously at Chaffey. An official transcript must be submitted to Chaffey and a request made for an official evaluation of the transcript with the Admissions and Records office. After the official evaluation is completed by the Admissions and Records office, make an appointment to meet with a counselor for a course to course evaluation of the transcript. Grades earned in equivalent courses at another college may be used to renew substandard grades in courses taken previously at Chaffey. Also, courses and units completed at another college may be used for academic renewal. See a counselor for assistance with both of these procedures.
2. Your probation standing is based on courses completed and grades earned at Chaffey College only. Coursework completed at other colleges may be used to improve your GPA through academic renewal or grade renewal by course repetition (as described in item 1 above). Only the cumulative grade point average and courses completed at Chaffey are used to determine academic and progress probation standing.