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[Music] Welcome to understanding academic probation. If you are watching this video, it is because you are on academic probation. While you may be feeling a little defeated, don't worry. You are not alone. This video is designed to help you discover your power by providing you with the tools to gain insight, understanding, and direction. So relax and stay focused and get empowered. Let's go.
Academic probation is a warning that your performance has fallen below the institution's requirement for good academic standing. Academic standing is measured by your GPA or gradepoint average and is also determined by academic progress. Now let's talk about academic progress. Satisfactory progress will be based on a cumulative successful completion rate of 50%, 60% or 67% depending on credits attempted. For the purpose of calculating satisfactory academic progress, withdrawals W's made within the refund period will count as a WD toward the calculation of progress. A grade of A, B, C, D, P, or MP. The first time taking zero level courses will be considered a successful completion.
Let's talk about academic progress. Completion rate. After attempting anywhere from 1 to 12 credit hours, your minimum required completion rate is 50% of your classes. With increased credit hours, the completion rate of classes passed also increases. From 13 to 18, your required completion rate is 60%. Credits 19 or above, your required completion rate is 67%.
Now, let's talk about your grade point average or GPA. The minimum required GPA is determined by the number of credits attempted. Developmental courses, English 098, 099, FNMT016 will not count towards GPA calculation. Withdrawals could count against your GPA and incompletes do not count towards GPA. However, incompletes if not satisfied will become an F grade. Grades of A, B, C, D, F will count.
Your attempted credits have a GPA requirement. This is the minimum GPA at the attempted credit hours you can earn, but please aim much higher so that you can get a really good solid GPA to help you through your semester. Now, this chart explains everything. This chart below gives an excellent example of attempted credits, minimum GPA, and completion rate applied. And if you look, you'll see that the minimum GPA changes as your attempted credits increase. The completion rate applied also changes as your attempted credits increase. 50% from 1 to 12. 60% of the classes need to be passed between 13 and 17 credits. 18. 60% of the classes need to be passed, but the GPA requirement goes up a little. Once you pass to 19, not only does the minimum GPA go up, but then your attempted completion rate applied also goes up to 67%. 50% of the classes must be passed. Here's 60% of the classes must be passed. And here's 67% of the classes must be passed as your attempted credits increase.
So, let's do a visual for 50% completion rate. Let's look at student example one. This student attempted during the summer of 2021 two classes. 019 for four credits, history 103 for three credits. This gave the student attempted hours of seven with 50%. The student needed to have passed 3.5 credits. Well, they did. They passed four. What put the student on probation here was the withdrawal from the history 103 which gave them a zero GPA. Once the student completed math 123 and received a grade of B with total attempted credits as 10, past hours needed to be five and they succeeded. They passed seven and now they have a GPA of a 3.0. So this semester because of the one pass course the student is now off of probation.
Let's look at the next slide. So let's look at student example two. This is the 60% completion rate. This student is assessed over two semesters and they have attempted 13 credits. Once you attempt 13 credits, you are now assessed at the 60% completion rate and your total number of past credits should be 7.8. This student only has four. While their GPA is a 4.0 from the A they received in bio 109, they're still on academic probation because of the past credits. This is why it's important not to drop a lot of classes. It can get you in trouble and jeopardize your financial aid.
Now let's look at student example three. This is the third completion rate chart. 67%. By the time a student attempts 24 credits, they are now in the 67% completion rate and should have completed at least 16 credits. This student is fine. They've passed 18. This student is also good in the GPA area because it's a 3.0. But let's take a look at what may have been the saving grace for this student. Whenever you take a zero level course for the first time and you receive a grade of MP, that will count in your attempted credits. If you withdraw from a zero level class the first time you take it, that W will not count in your attempted credits and it can throw you on probation. So, it's very important whenever you take zero level courses for the first time, don't stop attending. Don't stop. Hang in there. Do your very best because as long as you don't have a lot of absences and you're in contact with your professor and you're doing the best you can, an MP the first time will save you from going on academic probation. So, hang in there.
Full-time probation. Once a student is considered on full-time probation, you can only register for courses with a counselor. You cannot get any grade lower than a C in any course. While on full-time probation, you are allowed to take up to 13 credits. Withdrawal from any course will count against you, and failure to meet this criteria will result in part-time probation. At the end of any full-time academic probation term, you will be evaluated as follows. If you have met the required GPA and completion rate, 50%, 60% or 67%, you are off probation. If you have not met the required GPA and completion rate 50, 60, or 67% but earn passing grades of A, B, C, P, or MP the first time in a zero level course, you will remain on full-time probation. If you have not met the required GPA and completion rate and did not earn passing grades of A, B, C, P, or MP the first time in zero level courses, you will be placed on part-time probation and allowed to take a maximum of seven credits.
Satisfactory academic progress or SAP requirements for students receiving financial aid. Academic probation affects your financial aid. Most students are given one semester of aid after being placed on probation to return to good standing. Failure to return to good standing can result in the loss of financial aid of any kind, including loans, and students may have to complete a SAP appeal and educational plan to stay in good financial standing. The following types of grades will count against you. F for failure. FS if you stop attending. Incomplete if you need additional time to complete your work. Unreported withdrawal grades are counted as attempted credits. All attempted credits are counted whether you receive financial aid for that semester or you pay out of pocket.
[Music] Life happens. Hold on. Success is closer than you think. How do I clear my probation status? Should you study more, study differently, study in a different place, take advantage of study groups, or manage your time more efficiently? Two hours of homework and studying for every one hour in class. So, let's do the math. 12 credits equals 12 * 2. That's 24 hours of homework and studying. And the two are different. Plus, the 12 hours you spend in class is a total of 36 hours per week you need to devote to college. That's a full-time job. Consider carefully where you study. Is it conducive to studying? Should you consider staying on campus to study? Do you keep a planner with all assignments and deadlines? Are you spending sufficient time preparing for classes and tests? And are you pursuing the right career path?
Let's look at additional tips. You should meet with your counselor to consider whether you should retake a class to raise your GPA. Consider your course load carefully, balancing more difficult courses with less strenuous courses. Consider a lighter load. This may allow you the opportunity to concentrate on fewer classes. And please use websites like Khan Academy.org to help you. Consider carefully and honestly what habits may have contributed to your current situation and what you can change.
More tips. Take advantage of study skills, writing or time management workshops. The counseling department offers workshops every semester. Check in with your counselor and instructors several times throughout the semester. Catching problems early can make a difference. And take advantage of tutoring. Even for courses that seem to be easy, extra support is always helpful. Academic probation is an uncomfortable situation, but it can be turned around if you see this as the warning it is intended to be. You will analyze what has created your difficulty. Accountability goes a long way. Cultivate your relationship with your assigned counselor and respect their recommendations. Don't miss any appointment times with your counselor. Make the changes necessary to determine a positive outcome. You will be so glad you did. Now, let's get to work. And remember, your counselor is here to help you navigate successfully.
Hello, my name is Gail Chen and I'm one of the members of the academic probation committee. I'm going to talk with you today about habits for success. So we are what we repeatedly do. So if you continue to do the same things over and over again and get the same results that you aren't satisfied with, it tells us that we need to make a change. So excellence then is not an act but a habit. So when people are able to repeatedly do things that bring them success, that's because they engage in changing and renewing habits. So a keystone habit is something we're going to talk about today. And it's no more difficult to incorporate or form than any other habit. Yet it provides the most benefits. They extend small senses of victory. So it's a small win that we can then build from, acting as the foundation for a successful day. They act as the soil from which other good habits grow. So when we complete a keystone habit, we're more inclined to engage in other good habits. They provide you with energy, confidence, and the momentum to achieve more. When a habit becomes part of our daily routine, it helps to build momentum.
So what are the keystone habits? Let's first talk about the keystone. So a keystone is the innermost stone in an arch that helps to interlock or hold in place the other stones. Yet it bears the least weight. Without the keystone, the arch would collapse. It's an integral part of the structure. So, in similarity, a keystone habit is an integral part of any good habit routine. Let's find out what they are.
So, let's talk about the five keystone habits. The first one, active goal setting. When goals are written, they are far more real. You want to establish active goal setting because it develops accountability. You want to write down short-term and long-term goals. A short-term goal could be the completion of one semester. A long-term goal can be the completion of your degree. You want to set priorities. What's first determines where everything else gets placed.
Number two, effective time management. You want to divide your work into priority categories. Things that are important and urgent should be things that are critical. Important but not urgent should be long-term goal related activities as we discussed in active goal setting. Not important but not urgent are distractions or interruptions that you may need to deal with on a daily basis. And not important and not urgent are things that waste your time. Every day you should create a to-do list. And on that to-do list you should try to divide your priorities into those four categories. Make sure you always include an on-time regimen. Be assignment focused, work efficiently, and create a workspace for yourself. You always want to keep super neat notes because those are the things you're going to use later to help you with your test.
The third thing, 30 minutes of exercise. You want to work that body because it's going to reduce the stress in your life and as a college student, you're going to have a lot.
The fourth keystone habit, daily gratitude. Be thankful. Practice this every day. You may not be where you want to be, but you're really working hard to get there, and you have to respect that. Work hard to get where you're going to get and appreciate all of the little things along the way that you have to give up and sacrifice to get there. It'll be worth it.
And finally, number five, learn a new skill. This prevents you from becoming stagnant and complacent, and it makes you more marketable as time goes on. Because what's good today may be obsolete 10 years from now. So the goal is to practice all five keystone habits. They're not stressful. They come more natural and you will be more successful if you practice them.
Today I'm going to speak with you about creating an academic game plan. Uh just a short uh reason why I came up with creating a game academic game plan. I remember being in your position, a student on academic probation while I was in college and at that time I felt a little down about myself and figured okay I got to come up with a plan. So I developed uh an academic game plan for myself. So today I would like to share with you about how I created my game plan which I hope you will think about creating a game plan for yourself.
So game plan I I created an acronym for it for the game plan and as you could see G is for grind, A is for attitude. M is for motivation. E is for execute. P is for prioritizing. L is for leverage. A is for adapt. And N is for navigate. So, let me just explain it. You got to be willing to grind in this position. You being on academic probation. You're willing to give up everything you have to make sure that you get off of academic probation. Got to have a positive attitude about it. This isn't the only uh problem you're going to have. This is a minor problem, okay? But you have to have the right attitude. You got to continue to stay motivated. You have to have that motivation every day to to create that positive uh attitude uh so that you'll be able to get off academic probation. Got to be willing to execute that game plan that you created for yourself. And you have to prioritize your your academics, your life, and you have to put all that together. Prioritize and that's a very important part. Gotta be able to leverage, have that balance. Okay? Have that balance to to live your personal life as well as achieve your academic success. Gotta be willing to adapt to this this process. This is going to be new, creating a plan that helps you uh become successful. And finally, be willing to navigate it. Okay? You got to be willing to navigate the system. Understanding your role as a college student really is important to understand your role as a college student. So creating that academic game plan is very important.
Research suggests for each credit hour of class, a student should dedicate two hours of homework and study. Okay, you see here we have a full-time roster. Okay, English 101, CIS 103, uh fundamentals 017, and sociology. Each of those are three credit courses. You put two hours to each of those uh courses. You come up with six hours per week for a total of homework and study per week is 24 hours plus the 12 credit hours equals a total of 36 hours per week that you have to be willing to execute, grind, motivate your game plan.
Okay, let's talk about homework versus study habits. Okay, here's a question that I like to ask you. Is there a difference between these two habits? Think about it. Yes, there is. Okay, homework is basically homework. Okay, if you remember back in high school when you did your homework, you were just done. You finished your homework, you closed that book, and you went on. I remember being in college. I tried that same habit, trying to do my homework. I made sure my homework was done, and then I really didn't put in that study habits part. Then I realized studying was totally different than homework. Now you may have to combine them together sometimes, but you have to study at least at at least every day as the research indicated earlier. It states that we have to put in time.
Now I will say it said 36 hours per week. When I heard that I was like, oh, I don't know if I can get that much time. I was a student athlete. So, I had to come up with a plan. Um, I said to myself, well, let me think about what can I do. So, I said to myself, I needed to do at least six to eight hours a week. Can you find at least six to eight hours a week to complete the homework, study habits? Can you find at least six to eight? I know we're all busy. So, I'm saying I it did say we need to figure out how to put in that 36 hours. Well, what I did for myself at the start of my uh program, our probation program, I decided I said, "Well, I can find at least eight hours. I know I could do eight hours." All right. Eight hours consists of two hours on Monday, two hours on Tuesday, two hours on Wednesday, two hours on Thursday. Friday was free. And I I'll tell you a little little fun part that I used to motivate. Remember I said motivation? Well, Fridays was free for Freddy. If you know remember my name is Fred Dukes. I looked at it. If I grind Monday through Thursday, I could be free for Freddy on Friday. So, that's just a little something that I use to motivate myself being on academic probation.
So, grind time, let's talk about it. Two classes on Monday and Wednesday means four hours of homework or study. So, some days you might just have homework, but you need to put a little studying involved in there. You can never go a day without studying. Two two classes on Tuesday and Thursday means another four hours, which means eight hours of homework and and studying a week. So that's eight hours. That's like a normal job. You're putting in a normal eight hours of work like a normal job. So for me, I could do that. That was comfortable for me. I think that you need to think about what's going to be comfortable for you so that you know you want to execute. Remember that word, execute your homework and studying every week. Okay? So let's just make it happen. Start. You got to start somewhere, ladies and gentlemen. You have to start somewhere. Let's try to improve your homework and study habits. Let's try to improve that. That's very important. All right. Find the time to grind. That's that grind time I was talking about. Mine was two hours every day. Yours may be different. Find that time to grind. Set your goals high. Set your goals high for yourself. Look for the long road, seeing yourself crossing that stage at graduation. Remember, it's no pain, no gain. If you don't put no time in, you're not going to gain anything. So you have to put the time in every day. Stay true to your game plan. That means make sure it happens every day. Every single day. Stay true to your game plan. Let's make it happen.
Hi, my name is Diane Brisban and I'm also a member of the academic probation committee and I'm here to speak with you today about emotional intelligence. Your emotional awareness and ability to handle feelings will determine your success and happiness in life. So true. Now what is emotional intelligence? Well, by definition, emotional intelligence, also known as emotional quotient, is the ability of individuals to recognize their own emotions and those of others, identify feelings and label them appropriately, use emotional information to guide thinking and behavior, and manage or adjust emotions to achieve one's goals. The importance of emotional intelligence is well, as we all know, your intelligence quotient uh contributes to about 20% of the factors that determine success, while 80% contributes to the factors that are identified as emotional intelligence or EQ.
Now there are five key components of emotional intelligence. The first one being self-awareness helps to answer that age-old question of who am I? So self-awareness provides an awareness of your emotions, your feelings, tendencies and habits, whether they be bad or good. A second key component is motivation and it helps you to answer why am I here and where am I going? and it provides that internal drive that's needed to complete a goal, whether it be academic, career, or personal. Then we have self-management or control and that's the ability to manage emotions and impulses. Take personal responsibility for mistakes rather than blaming others. And then there's empathy, sensing the emotions of others. In other words, putting yourself in someone else's shoes. And another important component is social or interpersonal skills, which provides the ability to develop and manage relationships that benefit both yourself and others.
The benefit of developing EQ well it provides personal knowledge and that's empowering. It gives you the ability to maximize your strengths and minimize your weaknesses. Say you are good in English. So you definitely want to try to get A's and B's in your English classes. And maybe you're not you're not as good in in math. So you you'll go to uh learning lab. uh you'll take advantage of the resources and supports available so you can minimize your weaknesses and if by chance uh you can instead of an F uh you'll be able to uh pull out a C on that in uh math. Another benefit of developing EQ is flexibility. It gives you the ability to adapt your feelings and behaviors to unfamiliar or changing conditions. Perfect example is COVID-19 and the online learning that had to be done uh without a doubt. Uh resilience is another ability to recover from disappointments and setbacks. Another benefit of developing EQ is effective communication, giving you the knowledge of what and why of personal feelings that uh that enhances the ability to communicate with confidence and positivity. Effective communication is also essential for uh resolving conflict and it gives you the confidence to give and accept constructive feedback. Another benefit of developing EQ is positive relationships. It helps in rapport building, both personal and professional, and it increases of your understanding and compassion of others.
So when developing a strategy, you want to think about the following. How many classes do you need to take next semester? So this will vary from each student. You may need uh six credits, which would be two classes, or you may need a total of four classes, or you may need more depending on your circumstance, but we'll be able to guide you through that process. Do you qualify for an excused withdrawal? So if you had extenuating circumstances, medical condition, you lost a family, friend, loved one, and then if you were on medical leave. Uh so with that, uh you will have to have that documentation, and we will guide you through what documentation you'll need to apply for an excused withdrawal. Do you need to register? So you may have already registered, but we'll look at what courses did you register for the next semester. What classes will you need? And then also, do you need to change your schedule? And what will be different for you next semester? Uh will you take will you work less hours? Will you be working more hours? Do you have family obligations? And how will all of that impact your academic success?
CCP. We've shared a lot of really great information with you today, and you might be wondering, what are my next steps? So, the first thing we'd like for you to do is check your financial aid standing status. You can do this by logging into myCCP, going to the student tab, clicking on financial aid, and then selecting SAP academic progress, and then you would select the current school year. Knowing your financial aid standing status is crucial to making sure that we can set you up with a plan for success.
Once you've done that, we'd like for you to contact counseling if you still need to register or make any schedule changes if you are over the number of credits you can take. So remember, for full-time probation students, that maximum is 13 credits. And for part-time probation students, that maximum is seven credits. So if you are over your max of credits, you will be at risk of having your courses dropped this semester. So, it's really important to make sure that you're within those guidelines.
Now, your next steps during the semester, you will be assigned a counselor that can help you develop a success plan and you're going to have check-ins with your counselor. And once registration rolls around again, you'll register for the next semester. And then you would discuss a SAP appeal if necessary if you're at risk of possibly losing your financial aid.
In conclusion, we want to thank you for your time and attention. And if you have any questions, please do not hesitate to email us at counseling@cccp.edu. We are dedicated to your success.
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