Under the Graduate Student Academic Renewal Appeal, students may request that previous graduate course grades be excluded from the calculation of their cumulative graduate GPA.

If the student has previously been awarded a graduate certificate or graduate degree, only courses taken since the most recent award are eligible for exclusion.

Courses in which the final grade earned was the result of an Academic Integrity violation, which are recorded by the Office of Student Rights and Responsibilities, are ineligible for exclusion. 

To qualify for the Graduate Student Academic Renewal Appeal:

• The student must be admitted or readmitted to a graduate program that endorses the student's Academic Renewal Appeal.
• The student has not been enrolled at UNCG for at least three years. 
• The student's cumulative GPA must be below a 3.0 and it must be impossible to reach a cumulative GPA of a 3.0 within a probationary period of 9 credit hours.
• The courses to be excluded from the GPA cannot have already been applied to an awarded degree or certificate.
• None of the excluded courses can be used to satisfy academic requirements.

Once Graduate Student Academic Renewal has been applied to a course it cannot be reversed. Courses approved for exclusion cannot be used to meet degree requirements.