Graduate Student Policies
Academic Probation and Dismissal
Students in master's degree and licensure programs are expected to maintain a GPA of 3.30 or higher in graduate course work.
Specialist and doctoral degree students are expected to maintain a GPA of 3.50 or higher. Master's and licensure students whose graduate GPA falls below 3.00 are subject to probation and dismissal. Specialist and doctoral students whose GPA falls below 3.30 are subject to probation and dismissal. Graduate licensure students taking undergraduate courses must maintain a GPA of 2.75 in such course work. Students may not graduate with GPAs in their program course work below the minimum specified levels. Students dismissed for academic reasons may not be recommended for teaching or other education licenses. Students so dismissed may apply for readmission. They will be readmitted only if there is substantial reason to expect that their academic performance will improve.
Reinstatement
Students so dismissed may apply for readmission. They will be readmitted only if there is substantial reason to expect that their academic performance will improve.
Incomplete Course Work (I)
A grade of Incomplete may be assigned when, at the end of the term, a student has not completed all course work. This grade may be given only when the completed work is of passing quality.
Unfinished course work must be completed within one calendar year from the date the grade of I is assigned. The course must ordinarily be completed with the original course instructor. The instructor then completes an e-Grade Change to remove the incomplete and assigns a letter grade. Incomplete grades that are not removed within one year are changed to a grade of F. This change occurs automatically unless the associate dean for graduate studies receives and approves a petition for extension from the course instructor.
Graduate students with an inordinate number faceplate courses will not be allowed to register in additional courses. As a general rule, graduate students with 9 or more credit hours of I or R grades (excluding dissertation credits) will be disallowed further enrollment.
Deferred Grade (R)
An R, indicating that the grade has been deferred, may be assigned in thesis and dissertation courses, internship courses, and a few other selected courses where work is expected to take longer than one year to complete. Unlike a grade of I, a grade of R does not automatically change to an F.
Withdrawal from Courses (W and WF)
Withdrawal from enrollment in a course during the drop /add period (in the first week of each term) is not recorded on a student's transcript. Withdrawal after this time is recorded as a W on the student's transcript. During the first quarter of each term, students may withdraw without instructor consent. After this date, instructor approval is required. If a student is failing at the time of withdrawal, or simply discontinues attending the class, a grade of WF (withdrawal with failure) is assigned. This is treated as an F in grade point averaging. Near the end of the term withdrawal is not allowed at all, except in cases where a student is withdrawing from all classes. See the Schedule of Classes here for pertinent dates.
Transfer Courses
Graduate course work completed at other universities may be transferred, with faculty approval, into a degree or licensure program in the IU School of Education- Indianapolis. All course work transferred must be from an accredited college or university. No transfer credit will be given for a course with a grade lower than B. Courses graded P (Pass) may not ordinarily be transferred into education graduate programs. Courses graded S (Satisfactory) the course instructor stating that the student's performance in the course was at or above a grade of B.
All transferred courses must be relevant to the student's plan of study. An official transcript is required for course work to be transferred. A course description or syllabus may also be required to determine the eligibility to transfer the course.
Master's degree students must complete a minimum of 27 credit hours of course work at Indiana University. Beyond this, graduate course work may be transferred from other universities. Of the 27 credit hours required at Indiana University, a minimum of 15 credit hours must be earned through the campus awarding the degree. Specialist degree students must complete 35 credit hours of course work at the Indianapolis campuses of Indiana University. Licensure requirements may restrict the number of transfer credits approved. Beyond this, course work may be transferred from other universities or from other IU campuses.
Doctoral students (Ph.D. and Ed.D.) in the 90 credit hour program must complete 60 credit hours of course work at the Indianapolis campus of Indiana University (this includes dissertation credits). Ph.D. and Ed.D. students may transfer no more than 30 credit hours into an IU doctoral program. The form required for students to transfer courses is available in the Office of Graduate Studies and online. Ed.D. students in the 60 credit hour postmaster's doctoral program must complete 42 credit hours (including dissertation credits) at the Indianapolis campus.
Licensure students are generally required to complete at least half of their course work at the Indianapolis campus of Indiana University. Course Revalidation
Courses over seven years old must be revalidated. Revalidation requires students to demonstrate the current knowledge of course material that was not recently taken. Students will work with their faculty advisor and/or Program Coordinator for an approved revalidation plan.
*Courses over ten years old are expired and can not be used to fulfill the degree/licensure requirements.
Workshops
Workshop courses have the word "workshop" in the title. These courses are intended primarily as a mechanism for the professional development of teachers and other education professionals. The topics covered and the skills learned in workshop courses are generally of a very applied nature, with the intent of giving participants hands-on experience with models and techniques directly useful in school settings. Workshop courses are typically scheduled to meet on a very concentrated schedule (e.g., for one or a few continuous days, sometimes all day) and have little or no time between class sessions for studying or for out-of-class assignments. They may or may not generate credit hours. Workshop courses awarding credit require a minimum of 700 contact minutes per credit hour and require readings and papers or projects for each credit hour earned. (Papers are sometimes scheduled with a due date after the end of the workshop period.) Up to 9 hours of credit gained through workshop courses (including conference and institute courses) may be used in master's and Ed.D. programs. No workshop credit hours can be applied toward a Ph.D. program. If both undergraduate and workshop courses are to be used in an M.S. program, the total of undergraduate credit hours and workshop credit hours may not exceed 9. Correspondence courses and activity courses may not be used in graduate programs. (Activity courses are courses for learning and practicing a nonprofessional skill, such as a sports activity or playing a musical instrument.)
