POLICY MANUAL

SUBJECT: / Student Good Standing / TITLE: / Good Standing and Participation in Academic and Extracurricular Activities
CODING: / 40-60:00 / ADOPTED: / 12/05 / AMENDED: / 6/2013

I.  PURPOSE: To define the meaning of good standing and establish guidelines for participation in academic and extracurricular activities.

II.  ACCOUNTABILITY: Under the Dean, the Associate Dean for Student Affairs shall enforce this policy. When necessary, the Student Affairs Committee may enforce this policy.

III.  APPLICABILITY: All Rutgers New Jersey Medical School enrolled students.

IV.  POLICY:

Good standing status denotes that a student is eligible to continue in or to return to the Doctor of Medicine program at Rutgers New Jersey Medical School.

Students not meeting the standards of satisfactory academic progress or whose good standing is at risk due to course failures or incomplete grades cannot participate in first or second year credit-earning electives.

Furthermore, students not meeting the standards of satisfactory academic progress or whose good standing is at risk due to course failures or incomplete grades are expected to review and decide, with the assistance of all available counseling and advising, which noncredit electives and/or extracurricular activities to terminate because they interfere with studying and which to retain because they play an important part in personal need or development. To this end, a meeting with the Associate Dean for Student Affairs is mandatory.

Students who do not exercise good judgment in managing their coursework with other activities may be subject to restrictions with respect to enrollment in noncredit elective courses and participation in extracurricular activities. Restrictions may be imposed by the Associate Dean for Student Affairs and/or the Student Affairs Committee.

V.  PROCEDURE:

Students should be aware of their academic standing and balance their academic and extracurricular activities accordingly. The Associate Dean for Student Affairs and/or the Student Affairs Committee may impose restrictions on academically at-risk students.

By Direction of the Associate Dean for Student Affairs