学生财务服务 学业进步政策

作为一名在韦斯特蒙特学院获得经济资助的学生, it is important that you are aware of our policy that will allow you to remain in good standing and make satisfactory progress toward the completion of your program of study. Failure to make satisfactory academic progress 五月 result in the loss of your financial aid awards.

Federal regulations require that all students receiving Title IV aid meet or exceed the academic requirements of the institution. 除了, Westmont College requires all students receiving institutional aid to meet or exceed the standards of academic progress (see "令人满意的学业进展"). 为了遵守, all financial aid recipients at Westmont College will have their academic progress monitored following the conclusion of each semester or period of enrollment (including Mayterm).

为了获得经济援助，学生必须首先:

  • 有高中文凭，还是
  • 有普通教育发展(GED)证书，还是
  • 已经完成了家庭教育计划.

全日制课程最少为每学期12个单元. 在大学的第一年, students 五月 be encouraged to carry only 13 units each semester while they adjust to the rigors of academic life. A schedule of 17 units during each semester of the sophomore year and 16 in the semesters of the junior and senior years will bring students to the 124 minimum units needed for graduation when all four years of college are taken at Westmont. 除非学生另行通知学生财务服务部, 经济援助奖是基于全日制入学.

接受联邦、州或西蒙大学资助的财政援助的学生必须:

  • Meet a “qualitative standard,” by maintaining a Westmont cumulative GPA of at least 2.00.  Please note that grades from transfer coursework are not included in the Westmont cumulative GPA.
  • Meet a “quantitative standard” by completing a minimum percentage of all units attempted:
    • Students with "freshman" standing (students with fewer than 26 earned units) must have completed a minimum 66.7%的尝试单位
    • 所有其他学生必须完成至少75%的尝试单元.
  • 在每个入学期结束时，对学业进展进行监测和测量.

学业进展状况良好

  • 良好的信誉:学生在质量和数量上都达到了标准
  • 金融援助 Warning:  A student who was previously in good standing and is no longer meeting either the qualitative or quantitative measure.  Such a student continues to be eligible for aid; there is no need for 上诉.  学生将被告知他/她有一个学期的时间来恢复良好成绩. 
  • 金融援助 Suspension:  A student who was on 金融援助 Warning for the previous semester and did not succeed in regaining Good Standing.  该学生没有资格获得援助，但可以上诉复议.
  • 金融援助 Probation/Continued Probation:  A student who does not regain Good Standing after being on 金融援助 Warning and, 因此, 是否被暂停资助, 可以申请复议.  If the appeal is approved, eligibility for aid 五月 be reinstated for one payment period.

令人满意的学业进步申诉程序

没有必要对财政援助警告状态提出上诉, 处于这种状态的学生可以继续接受援助.  

被暂停资助的学生可向学生财务服务中心提出申诉. An appeal should address any extenuating circumstances that led to the student’s academic performance, 以及讨论学生恢复良好成绩的计划. Appeals will be decided by the Director and Assistant Director of 金融援助 and decisions made in response to these appeals will be final.

If, 在上诉过程中, it is determined that the student will require more than one term/semester to meet the progress standards outlined above, 上诉 五月 得到批准后，学生将被列入“学术计划”.“学生的进度将在每个学期(或中期学期)结束时进行评估, if the student is enrolled) to ensure that the student is progressing toward "good standing" and is meeting the requirements of the academic plan. If the student is meeting the requirements of the academic plan (or has attained "good standing"), 该学生将有资格继续获得经济援助. “学业计划”的任何变更必须得到学生金融服务部门的批准.

重建援助资格

Students whose status is either 金融援助 Warning or 金融援助 Probation must bring the qualitative and quantitative measures up to or above the minimum standard (see "令人满意的学业进展") in order to regain Good Standing.  

A student on 金融援助 Probation and who could not be reasonably expected to regain Good Standing after only one period of probation 五月, 在上诉之后, be allowed to be on Continued Probation if the previous semester’s performance would meet the qualitative and quantitative standards when examined on its own.  这将由财政援助主任酌情决定.

机构基金学术标准

以下机构基金要求学生满足, 至少, 学业成绩的定量和定性标准:

  • 奥古斯丁，门罗，校长/转学校长，候选人奖(最少). 平均绩点3.25)
  • Ruth Kerr/Transfer Kerr, Wallace Emerson，教务长/Transfer教务长(min). 平均绩点3.00)
  • 创始人/转学创始人，院长/转学院长(最少). 平均绩点2.75)
  • 勇士学术奖
  • Westmont Vista奖
  • 韦斯特蒙特学院助学金
  • 教职员工教育福利
  • 学费交换/CCCU交换/CCC交换
  • 体育，音乐，艺术，戏剧或其他人才奖学金
  • 第五年教学计划折扣
  • Westmont College无息贷款
  • All other institutional gift aid, regardless of the source/department originating the award

例外:

  • 韦斯特蒙特国家功绩
  • RA退税

资格期限

Students 五月 receive Westmont aid and Cal Grants for a maximum of eight semesters or until the student receives their first B.A. 学位，以先到者为准. Transfer students receive aid for a prorated period of time based on the number of units transferred at the time of admission to Westmont. 例如, a student who transfers to Westmont from another college or university with 32 semester units of coursework will be considered to be a first-semester sophomore and will be eligible for six semesters of Westmont-funded aid. Cal Grant will be available based on the number of semesters used at other institutions. Westmont-funded grant aid and some forms of federal aid are not available to students pursuing a second B.A. 及/或B.S. 学位.

Federal law limits the time needed to complete an undergraduate 学位 to 150% of the published length of the program.  这意味着对于攻读学士学位的学生来说, federal aid is limited to six years (12 semesters); students in the teaching credential program are eligible for up to three semesters of federal aid.  A student becomes ineligible for federal aid if and when it becomes mathematically impossible for him to complete his program within 150% of its length.

一些形式的经济援助奖是根据学生的班级水平颁发的. Class level at Westmont is based upon earned units as follows: first-year students: Fewer than 26 units; sophomores: 26-58 units; juniors: 59-91 units; seniors: 92 units or more.

此信息可能会更改. 如有任何问题，请与学生财务服务部联系.