2007-2008- Volume 82, No. 1

1. Competency-based preparatory instruction is required for degree-seeking students who score below the St. Petersburg College Placement Test cut-off scores prescribed by SBE Rule 6A-10.0315, F.A.C., and College Procedure P6Hx23-4.45. Deficiencies identified by the St. Petersburg College Placement Test will be in one or more of three-skill areas-reading, writing and mathematics. Students scoring below the prescribed St. Petersburg College Placement Test cut-off scores in any of these three areas must begin competency-based preparatory instruction in those area(s) of deficiency within their first 12 credit hours of enrollment. Florida Statutes 240.321 provides alternate private provider’s instruction.



2. Students with identified deficiencies will be precluded from enrolling in other credit courses within the skill area(s) of deficiency until basic skill mastery equivalent to the St. Petersburg College Placement Test score cut-off for such area(s) has been demonstrated. Concurrent enrollment in credit courses outside the area(s) of deficiency is permissible, however, in accordance with established prerequisite requirements and Section V. below.



3. Students who have begun required competency-based preparatory instruction must take identified preparatory courses consecutively in their identified deficient skill area(s) during each session they enroll at the College, insofar as possible in conjunction with Section I above, until such area(s) of deficiency is/are resolved within the limitations prescribed by Section IV below.



4. Enrollment in competency-based preparatory credit instruction to remediate deficiencies in the skill area(s) identified may not extend beyond three attempts in each required course in each skill area. A fourth attempt may be allowed only through an academic appeals process based on major extenuating circumstances. Beginning Session I, 1997-98, students enrolled in the same college preparatory class within a skill area more than twice will be assessed fees at 100 percent of the full cost of instruction. Students may have their fees reduced once for each class due to extenuating circumstances as determined by the campus provost or associate provost. However, the provost, associate provost or designee shall have the authority to review and reduce payment for increased fees due to continued enrollment in a college preparatory class on an individual basis contingent upon the student’s financial hardship, pursuant to definitions and fee levels established by the State Board of Education. An attempt shall be defined as each enrollment in a College/college preparatory course past the drop/add period regardless of the grade received.
   
   Extenuating circumstances are those circumstances determined by the College to be exceptional and beyond the control of the student, which may include but not be limited to one or more of the following:
   
   
   1. serious illness;
   2. documented medical condition preventing completion;
   3. death of an immediate family member;
   4. involuntary call to active military duty;
   5. documented learning disability;
   6. English as a second language background;
   7. documented change in conditions of employment; or
   8. other emergency circumstances or extraordinary situations such as natural disasters.

   The criteria for determining financial hardship shall include, but not be limited to, qualification for federal need-based financial assistance. Students with other documented financial hardships may also be considered. In either case, the exception for financial hardship should be granted only after the student has demonstrated reasonable effort to succeed in the course.




5. Students who have failed to remediate deficiencies in any course in any of the identified skill area(s) within three attempts will be permitted to enroll in additional credit coursework, but must be concurrently enrolled in the area(s) of deficiency every session until basic skill mastery equivalent to the St. Petersburg College Placement Test score cut-off for such area(s) has been demonstrated.

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