Student Handbook

2.05 Credit Completion

Overview:

Recognizing the value of credit completion for all students regarding retention, transfer and credential attainment, the Colorado Community College System (CCCS) has established the following practice and procedures for measuring and notifying students of their credit completion progress. This procedure is intended to be informational and helpful. It also establishes clear standards of credit completion progress that must be met and maintained to be a successful student in our colleges.

Process:

The college will monitor credit completion for students who have attempted fewer than 9 credits. These students are not subject to the Credit Completion Progress guideline.

Credit Completion Progress standards apply to all students who have attempted 9 or more credits at a CCCS college, regardless of the number of term credits they attempt from that point forward. Credit Completion Progress standards shall be applied consistently and uniformly within each CCCS institution. NJC determines Credit Completion Progress standards following the posting of the majority of term grades for each semester. Students placed on warning 1, warning 2 or warning 3 will be notified of their status. Credit Completion Progress status will be only noted on the advising and unofficial transcripts. The Credit Completion Progress status of a student is specific to NJC and does not impact a student’s enrollment at other CCCS colleges.

Definitions:

Credit Completion Progress: Includes all classes that award college credit (developmental and college level) used to calculate the percent of attempted credits passed. This includes summer term courses.

Only courses taken “in residence” will be used for this calculation; “In residence” means taken at the student’s home institution. Courses transferred in are not included in this calculation. Completion rates for this procedure will not necessarily match those used for financial aid or athletic eligibility.

Grades considered to be passing when computing the percent of attempted credits passed are as follows: A, B, C, D, P/A, P/B and P/C.

Grades considered to be failing when computing the percent of attempted credits passed are as follows: F, F/D, F/F, and I/F.

Course Completion Rate is calculated by dividing the total attempted credits by the number of credits successfully completed as per the definitions above.

Initial Standing: Student has attempted fewer than 9 cumulative credit hours will not be assessed for credit completion.

Good Standing: Student has attempted at least 9 cumulative credit hours and has a cumulative course completion rate of at least 50%.

Academic Alert: Student has attempted fewer than 9 cumulative credit hours and has a cumulative GPA <2.00 for all classes completed.

Performance Support: Student has completed at least 9 cumulative credit hours and has a cumulative GPA <2.0) for all classes completed. This value was previously referred to as "Academic Probation." 

By the conclusion of the Performance Support term, the student must raise their cumulative GPA to at least 2.00. If this condition is met, the student returns to Good Standing. Otherwise, the student will be Performance Improving or Academic Suspension, as outlined in 2.16. 

Warning Rules:

  • Students on Academic Alert will receive a communication regarding their credit completion status and will be given information on resources, best practices, etc.
  • Students on Performance Support will receive a communication regarding their credit completion status and will have a credit completion hold (which will impact registration) placed on their student account. The student cannot make any changes to their student account until they meet with an advisor.
  • Students on continued Performance Support will receive a communication regarding their credit completion status and will have a credit completion hold (which will impact registration) placed on their student account. The student will cannot make any changes to their student account until they meet with an advisor. The college reserves the right to limit the number of credit hours the student may take when a student is on Performance Support or Performance Improving.