baccalaureate degree
PRogression, Retention, Dismissal Policies
Students must maintain a cumulative grade point average of at least 2.25 throughout their enrollment in the Baccalaureate Nursing Program.
Students must achieve a minimum grade of C, as well as satisfactory performance for the clinical component of each nursing course.
A failed nursing course may be repeated only one time. Failure of any nursing course for a second time will result in dismissal from the program.
Failure of any two nursing courses, excluding 100 level nursing courses, within the baccalaureate curriculum will result in dismissal from the program.
Students much achieve a minimum grade of C in the following cognate General Education courses: English 305; Sociology 100; Educational Psychology 221, Psychology 266, or Family and Consumer Sciences 103; Educational Psychology 302, Health, Safety, and Environmental Health Sciences 340 or any college-level statistics course; and Biology 412.
A failed cognate course in the baccalaureate nursing curriculum may be repeated only one time. Failure of any cognate for a second time will result in dismissal from the program.
Failure of any three courses designated as a cognate in the baccalaureate nursing curriculum will result in dismissal from the program. Each failed cognate science course and its laboratory count as one course.
Students must achieve a minimum grade of C in the information technology literacy requirement.
Students must complete competency testing throughout the program of study based on course requirements.
Enrollments in clinical nursing courses will be determined by the following priorities:
Continuing students – students who enroll in at least one clinical nursing course each semester.
Advanced placement students – students who have earned advanced placement in the sequence of nursing courses and who will be enrolling in their first clinical nursing course.
Non-continuing students – students in good standing who have dropped out of the sequence of clinical nursing courses for at least one semester.
Non-progressing students – students who must repeat a clinical nursing course.
The Catalog of Indiana State University is the document of authority for all students. The requirements given in the catalog supersede information issued by any academic department, program, college, or school. The University reserves the right to change the requirements at any time.
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