Attendance Requirements

The Financial Aid Office recommends that student’s attendance be 80% or higher. It is our experience that students with attendance less than this often fail to meet the progress requirements. In addition, federal aid funds are earned through school attendance and progress.

Attendance Thresholds

Regaining Eligibility

Once a student’s aid has been suspended they can regain eligibility by getting their cumulative attendance to 67% and maintaining it at that rate.

• Payment Eligibility: Students are only eligible for payment in the payment period in which they regain eligibility – not for any prior payment periods.

• Progress Requirement: Please note that progress standards must also be met in order to be considered for reinstatement.

Prior Enrollment Impacts

Attendance standards for prior enrollment periods will count towards the current federal aid eligibility for five years from the date of the student’s last withdrawal.

• The office will require the student to serve a paid probation if their attendance was poor during the prior enrollment.

• In addition, a student could be required to serve a non-paid probation period, if they demonstrated poor attendance habits in a prior enrollment period that impacted aid eligibility at that time, regardless of the time frame.