General Policies
As part of the Zuckerberg College of Health Sciences, the Nursing program has the following academic policies for students to successfully progress in and complete the baccalaureate program.
First-year students in the curriculum will receive an Academic Warning letter the first time they fail to meet the academic requirements outlined below. Sophomore year students and higher who fail to meet the criteria for the first time, and first-year students who fail to meet the criteria for the second time, will receive a Dismissal Warning letter, which allows them to continue in the program under conditional status whereby an additional violation will lead to dismissal from their program, with the right to appeal to the Associate Dean of the college. Granting an appeal request is not automatic and the decision will be based on the likelihood of future success of the student in the major. A student with a successful appeal will be reinstated into the program under continued conditional status and any additional violations will result in dismissal without the right to appeal.
Academic Progression Requirements
To qualify for continued matriculation in the Nursing program, all students must maintain:
- a cumulative grade point average of 2.700 or better,
- a semester average of 2.70 or better,
- not less than a grade C+ in any professional major course,
- a cumulative grade point average of 2.70 or better for professional courses attempted in the major,
- a cumulative grade point average of 2.700 or better in required science courses
- Sciences GPA includes: Anatomy and Physiology I/II (with labs), Chemistry of Health and in the Environment (with labs), and Basic Clinical Microbiology and Pathology (with labs) and Pathophysiology.