(for students with more than 32 hours credit earned, excluding summer courses)

Students must maintain the minimum cumulative required course average previously specified under Graduation Requirements to be in good standing and to graduate.

A. Academic Probation:
A student will be placed on academic probation if the student's semester required course average is below 75.

B. Academic Exclusion:
A student will be excluded from further study in the School of Law if:

• the student's cumulative required course average falls below 75 at the end of any semester;
• the student is on probation and fails to attain a semester average of at least 75 the following semester (excluding summer school);
• the student accumulates three or more "unsatisfactory" grades in elective courses by the end of the spring semester of the second year;
• the student accumulates four or more "unsatisfactory" grades in elective courses during his or her law school career; or
• the student accumulates three or more grades below 68 in required courses during his or her law school career. Any student whose grades require probation or exclusion under the above rules shall be placed in such status as of the first day of the semester following the semester for which the unsatisfactory grades were earned, regardless of when the grades were actually reported.

For purposes of applying the foregoing rules, grades earned in summer school shall not be considered except in the calculation of cumulative averages and the accumulation of "unsatisfactory" grades.

C. Academic Appeals:
Except as provided in paragraph (2) below:

1. A student excluded pursuant to B. immediately above may petition the faculty for a waiver of the exclusion rule. The Associate Dean shall notify the excluded student of the date, time, and place of the hearing on the student's petition. The petition must be in writing and delivered to the Associate Dean at least 24 hours before the scheduled hearing on the petition. The student shall have the burden of persuading the faculty that his or her future studies will be successful, and the student shall be excluded unless that burden is clearly met.
2. A student whose cumulative average is below 73 at the end of two or more semesters of study in the Norman Adrian Wiggins School of Law may not petition until two years have elapsed.