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Students may apply to invoke the Fresh Start policy if they meet both of the following criteria:

1. They are pursuing their first baccalaureate degree
2. They have not been enrolled at any IU campus for 24 or more consecutive months (2 years).

Students who left any ³Ô¹Ïtv campus in less-than-good academic standing, e.g. academic probation or dismissal, are eligible for application of the Fresh Start policy if they are determined eligible for readmission to ³Ô¹Ïtv.

All ³Ô¹Ïtv undergraduate students who meet the criteria, regardless of the academic unit of enrollment, are eligible to apply for Fresh Start.

NOTE: This policy does not supersede any program-specific policies or requirements

The policy includes the following eight conditions that establish its limitations:

1. Notations for academic probation, academic suspension, academic dismissal, or bankruptcy from prior terms of enrollment will remain on the student transcript, but will not be used for determining a student’s academic standing following the application of the Fresh Start policy. Only grades earned after the application of the Fresh Start re-enrollment will be used in determining academic standing (probation, suspension, dismissal, Dean’s or Chancellor’s List, graduation eligibility).
2. Grades awarded as result of being found responsible in an Academic Misconduct inquiry will not be removed from the program GPA calculation by application of Fresh Start.
3. Once Fresh Start is invoked and applied to student record, Extended-X or any other grade replacement policies are restricted: they may only apply when both classes of the grade replacement pair were completed after the application of Fresh Start. In no cases may a student who has been granted Fresh Start seek to replace a grade completed before the application of Fresh Start.
4. Students may apply for and invoke Fresh Start only once. Once applied, it may not be revoked by the student.
5. The policy will apply to all terms of IU enrollment, regardless of the campus on which the courses were completed, for purposes of determining ³Ô¹Ïtv degree progress and completion.
6. To earn an ³Ô¹Ïtv degree, students must earn a minimum of thirty (30) degree-applicable credit hours on the ³Ô¹Ïtv campus after the application of Fresh Start.
7. Students receiving a similar academic forgiveness benefit on another ³Ô¹Ïtv campus are not eligible for ³Ô¹Ïtv Fresh Start.
8. Students receiving ³Ô¹Ïtv Fresh Start who subsequently become degree-seeking students on another IU campus are subject to the policies in effect for the IU campus from which they receive their degree.

1. An application developed by the Office of the Registrar will be distributed to all schools for their use in implementing Fresh Start in the academic year beginning with the Fall semester after approval of this policy.
2. Students submit application to the dean of the school through which they have been admitted to return to ³Ô¹Ïtv. The dean or duly authorized dean delegate has responsibility to determine if student qualifies for Fresh Start program under this policy. Upon approving or denying the application, the dean or dean delegate forwards the application to the Office of the Registrar for execution. Denials of Fresh Start by the dean or dean delegate may be appealed to the Probation, Suspension, and Dismissal Committee within 30 days of the notice date. The decision of the Probation, Suspension, and Dismissal Committee shall be final in appealed cases.
3. Upon receiving a decision from the dean or dean delegate, the Office of the Registrar shall:
   1. Notify the students via e-mail to their IU email account of the approval or denial of the application.
   2. In approved cases, apply a service indicator to the student record for tracking and reporting purposes.
   3. In approved cases, update the record to extract the GPA values, and credits in classes with less than C grades, from the Program GPA and earned hours, for all terms of enrollment preceding the term of Fresh Start approval. d. In denied cases, provide information in the notice of decision on how to appeal.