/Institutions/Baptist-University-of-Florida/json/2025-2026/Academic-Catalog-local.json

/Institutions/Baptist-University-of-Florida/json/2025-2026/Academic-Catalog.json

Probation and Suspension

Students who do not meet the minimum standards indicated above will face academic discipline as follows:

1. The first semester after failure to meet the minimum standard, students will be placed on academic probation. While a student is on academic probation, he/she is allowed to continue normal student activities except participation in university activities that require the student to miss class meetings such as trips or tours. If a student is enrolled in a degree program that requires participation in a performance ensemble, he/she will be placed in College Choir and will not be permitted to participate in another ensemble until he/she has earned a grade point average sufficient to be removed from academic probation.
2. Students who attain at least the minimum standard after one semester on probation will be placed on good standing.
3. Students who fail to attain the minimum standard after a semester on probation will be suspended.
4. Students placed on suspension may not enroll in courses for one regular semester. While on academic suspension, a student will not be permitted to participate in most university activities, including intramural sports, projects, trips, and musical ensembles. In order to grant students on suspension the opportunity to study in areas of their academic deficiency, they will be permitted to have access to the Library, the Information Technology lab, and the Writing Center. Since students are required to be enrolled as full-time students in order to remain in campus housing, students on suspension must vacate campus housing. Exceptions will be granted on a case-by-case basis by the housing manager.
5. Students on suspension must apply through the Office of Admissions to be readmitted to the university.
6. If readmitted to the university, the student will be on academic probation for one semester, and the required minimum standard must be met by the end of the second semester following readmission. Since the student will be on academic probation during this period, the same restrictions outlined above apply.
7. If the minimum standard is not met by the end of the second semester following readmission, students will be placed on permanent suspension.

The most reliable way to end academic probation is to retake courses in which “D” or “F” grades have been earned in order to improve grades in accordance with the forgiveness policy.