Satisfactory Academic Progress (SAP) Policy
Satisfactory Academic Progress (SAP):
- Windsor University implements and consistently applies a satisfactory academic progress policy and discloses this policy to students.
- Standards for measuring satisfactory academic progress include qualitative and quantitative standards used for the evaluation of student progress.
- The institution takes appropriate action if students fail to meet the institution’s minimum standards of progress.
- Students are informed of their academic progress and standing in the program at regular intervals throughout their enrollment.
- Quantitative Standards:
- Completion Rate: The percentage of courses that are completed as compared to attempted courses, this means that a student must complete not less than sixty-seven (67%) of the attempted courses. This is done by dividing the sum of the number of credit hours that a candidate has completed by the credit hours attempted.
- Time Frame: This must be as follows, the maximum time that the students are allowed within the university to complete the MBA program is 20 months but has an allowed time of 30 months at most. This is usually defined as 150 percent of the metrics set for the standard program duration.
- Qualitative Standards:
- Academic Performance & Engagement and Participation
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Cumulative GPA: Students are required to maintain a minimum cumulative GPA of 1.67 (C-) on a 4.0 scale to meet academic progress standards.
Course Grading Breakdown: This course is graded out of a total of 100 points. 60% of the grade is based on discussions, projects, case studies, and/or presentations submitted through Moodle, while the remaining 40% comes from regular assessments and coursework as outlined by the professor.
In the case of projects, case studies, and presentations: Each student will complete one project or case study and one presentation for the entire course. These assignments are designed to accommodate different time zones, with the option for students to submit recorded presentations if they cannot present live. If a student is at risk of failing the assessment, the professor will reach out to offer guidance and allow re-submission after adjustments.
Assessment Options: The instructor may either hold up to two assignments or quizzes that together weigh 20% of the total grade throughout the course, or alternatively, administer one midterm exam in the middle of the semester, also weighing 20% of the total grade.
Final Assessments: The professor may choose to hold a final exam at the end of the semester, weighing 20% of the total grade (as an open-book exam), or replace it with discussions, projects, case studies, and/or presentations that would then account for 80% of the grade instead of 60%. In this case, the project/case study may be divided into parts, with the final part completed at the end of the semester. Alternatively, students may be required to give a presentation or participate in discussions that demonstrate the skills and outcomes learned from the course.
- All the coursework should be held on the University’s platform (Moodle). Each required coursework assessment should be open for students for at least 7 days.
- The instructor should get all the resources for all the coursework from the McGraw-Hill account provided by the University on Moodle.
- The table below describes the evaluation procedure for this course.
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- Academic Performance & Engagement and Participation
Minimum Requirements for Each Course:
Students must meet the minimum requirements for all courses respectively while fulfilling the program’s graduation conditions. Students who fail a course or cannot graduate due to their lack of grades should retake and pass the courses with the lowest required grade to achieve the graduation requirements.
Below are the minimum requirements for each course type and the academic program as a whole:
Transcript Request:
After the end of each semester, the student can request an official transcript from the University’s website online.
- Qualitative Standards:
- Feedback and Improvement:
Regular Feedback from faculty is a key part of the qualitative standards. Students are expected to use this feedback to improve their performance continually. Success advisors also play a role in providing guidance and support to help students address any academic difficulties they encounter.
- Depth of understanding: Instructors make sure that students completely understand the targeted course throughout the engagement, and the following: Windsor University is a member of the ePlatform (Wheelers), which provides the students & faculty members with online digital library resources and services associated with the ePlatform (Wheelers). Windsor University subscribed to hundreds of databases in different academic disciplines. EPlatform (Wheelers) assists the students & the faculty members with e-books and audiobooks, Windsor University has also subscribed to EPlatform (Wheelers) Librarian Services, which offers webinars and librarian services that are effective.
- Critical Thinking, Analysis, Communication skills, Engagement, and Collaboration: Engagement in courses evaluates the student’s extent of analyzing content, which enhances critical attributes that pertain to thinking as well as communication skills.
- Mentoring: When the students register, they will be assigned to a faculty mentor who will guide them. Students, in need of educational, occupational, or personal guidance and counseling, are guided by their respective supervisors. This can be the case since some students may be assigned to work under the same supervisor.
- Career Guiding Workshops: Windsor University will offer career-guiding workshops that will provide comprehensive and knowledgeable steering tools to boost the students’ elements relevant to the business world. These workshops will be accessible to students upon enrollment and will always be available to them after graduating.
- Feedback and Improvement:
- Monitoring and Support:
- Progress Tracking: Students’ performance at Windsor University is managed through data analysis concerning their academic progress. This also enables instructors to identify the students who may be experiencing difficulties in a given course to ensure that they can be offered assistance to ensure that they have a sound SAP status.
- Advising and Resources: Open and consistent support of the faculty ensures that the students can consult their instructors and receive assistance on different aspects of their learning process. Advisors help students with the organization of their schedules, with course content, tackling difficulties that students face, and putting them back on track.
- Evaluation and Consequences:
- Evaluation Period: In light of the existing policies of the educational institution, so that SAP is conducted at the end of a term or any academic period based on the current policies of the university, SAP is assessed at the end of each term or academic period.
- Academic Warning: Students, who do not meet SAP standards, shall be put on academic warning for the next term.
- Appeal Process: It should be noted that academic suspension is not the same as academic probation, the former means students cannot register for the course(s) while the latter entails limited registration privileges students may appeal an academic suspension by submitting an appeal letter to the office of the registrar that outlines the circumstances that led to the failure. To adhere to SAP standards, new information to support their case, and a framework in which they will improve their academic standing. These standards ensure that students at Windsor University are consistently meeting both the qualitative and qualitative measures of academic success, thereby maintaining their eligibility to continue their studies and achieve their educational goals.
Satisfactory Academic Progress (SAP):
- Windsor University implements and consistently applies a satisfactory academic progress policy and discloses this policy to students.
- Standards for measuring satisfactory academic progress include qualitative and quantitative standards used for the evaluation of student progress.
- The institution takes appropriate action if students fail to meet the institution’s minimum standards of progress.
- Students are informed of their academic progress and standing in the program at regular intervals throughout their enrollment.
- Quantitative Standards:
- Completion Rate: The percentage of courses that are completed as compared to attempted courses, this means that a student must complete not less than sixty-seven (67%) of the attempted courses. This is done by dividing the sum of the number of credit hours that a candidate has completed by the credit hours attempted.
- Time Frame: This must be as follows, the maximum time that the students are allowed within the university to complete the MBA program is 20 months but has an allowed time of 30 months at most. This is usually defined as 150 percent of the metrics set for the standard program duration.
- Qualitative Standards:
- Academic Performance & Engagement and Participation
-
Cumulative GPA: Students are required to maintain a minimum cumulative GPA of 1.67 (C-) on a 4.0 scale to meet academic progress standards.
Course Grading Breakdown: This course is graded out of a total of 100 points. 60% of the grade is based on discussions, projects, case studies, and/or presentations submitted through Moodle, while the remaining 40% comes from regular assessments and coursework as outlined by the professor.
In the case of projects, case studies, and presentations: Each student will complete one project or case study and one presentation for the entire course. These assignments are designed to accommodate different time zones, with the option for students to submit recorded presentations if they cannot present live. If a student is at risk of failing the assessment, the professor will reach out to offer guidance and allow re-submission after adjustments.
Assessment Options: The instructor may either hold up to two assignments or quizzes that together weigh 20% of the total grade throughout the course, or alternatively, administer one midterm exam in the middle of the semester, also weighing 20% of the total grade.
Final Assessments: The professor may choose to hold a final exam at the end of the semester, weighing 20% of the total grade (as an open-book exam), or replace it with discussions, projects, case studies, and/or presentations that would then account for 80% of the grade instead of 60%. In this case, the project/case study may be divided into parts, with the final part completed at the end of the semester. Alternatively, students may be required to give a presentation or participate in discussions that demonstrate the skills and outcomes learned from the course.
- All the coursework should be held on the University’s platform (Moodle). Each required coursework assessment should be open for students for at least 7 days.
- The instructor should get all the resources for all the coursework from the McGraw-Hill account provided by the University on Moodle.
- The table below describes the evaluation procedure for this course.
-
- Academic Performance & Engagement and Participation
Minimum Requirements for Each Course:
Students must meet the minimum requirements for all courses respectively while fulfilling the program’s graduation conditions. Students who fail a course or cannot graduate due to their lack of grades should retake and pass the courses with the lowest required grade to achieve the graduation requirements.
Below are the minimum requirements for each course type and the academic program as a whole:
Transcript Request:
After the end of each semester, the student can request an official transcript from the University’s website online.
- Qualitative Standards:
- Feedback and Improvement:
Regular Feedback from faculty is a key part of the qualitative standards. Students are expected to use this feedback to improve their performance continually. Success advisors also play a role in providing guidance and support to help students address any academic difficulties they encounter.
- Depth of understanding: Instructors make sure that students completely understand the targeted course throughout the engagement, and the following: Windsor University is a member of the ePlatform (Wheelers), which provides the students & faculty members with online digital library resources and services associated with the ePlatform (Wheelers). Windsor University subscribed to hundreds of databases in different academic disciplines. EPlatform (Wheelers) assists the students & the faculty members with e-books and audiobooks, Windsor University has also subscribed to EPlatform (Wheelers) Librarian Services, which offers webinars and librarian services that are effective.
- Critical Thinking, Analysis, Communication skills, Engagement, and Collaboration: Engagement in courses evaluates the student’s extent of analyzing content, which enhances critical attributes that pertain to thinking as well as communication skills.
- Mentoring: When the students register, they will be assigned to a faculty mentor who will guide them. Students, in need of educational, occupational, or personal guidance and counseling, are guided by their respective supervisors. This can be the case since some students may be assigned to work under the same supervisor.
- Career Guiding Workshops: Windsor University will offer career-guiding workshops that will provide comprehensive and knowledgeable steering tools to boost the students’ elements relevant to the business world. These workshops will be accessible to students upon enrollment and will always be available to them after graduating.
- Feedback and Improvement:
- Monitoring and Support:
- Progress Tracking: Students’ performance at Windsor University is managed through data analysis concerning their academic progress. This also enables instructors to identify the students who may be experiencing difficulties in a given course to ensure that they can be offered assistance to ensure that they have a sound SAP status.
- Advising and Resources: Open and consistent support of the faculty ensures that the students can consult their instructors and receive assistance on different aspects of their learning process. Advisors help students with the organization of their schedules, with course content, tackling difficulties that students face, and putting them back on track.
- Evaluation and Consequences:
- Evaluation Period: In light of the existing policies of the educational institution, so that SAP is conducted at the end of a term or any academic period based on the current policies of the university, SAP is assessed at the end of each term or academic period.
- Academic Warning: Students, who do not meet SAP standards, shall be put on academic warning for the next term.
- Appeal Process: It should be noted that academic suspension is not the same as academic probation, the former means students cannot register for the course(s) while the latter entails limited registration privileges students may appeal an academic suspension by submitting an appeal letter to the office of the registrar that outlines the circumstances that led to the failure. To adhere to SAP standards, new information to support their case, and a framework in which they will improve their academic standing. These standards ensure that students at Windsor University are consistently meeting both the qualitative and qualitative measures of academic success, thereby maintaining their eligibility to continue their studies and achieve their educational goals.