If you are a student that follows a different catalog year, see your department chair or the Office of Academic Records.

Erasing Terms for GPA Purposes

For the purpose of raising his/her Dickinson State University cumulative G.P.A., a student may request permission to erase any term of his/her previous academic work (only one DSU term may be erased) if the student meets the following criteria: (Note: Terms from institutions other than DSU may not be erased.)
1.         The individual must be currently enrolled as a student at DSU at the time the request is made.
2.         Specific academic requirements must be met prior to the granting of a term erasure. Students who are interested in utilizing the term erasure process in order to raise their grade point average (GPA) must first visit with the director of Admissions and Academic Records so that the academic requirements and potential future GPA ramifications can be explained.

A term erasure request will be granted only once, and all academic work would continue to be shown on the student’s transcript, but the entire term(s) would be removed for GPA purposes. None of the credits of the erased term could be used for graduation purposes. Once a term has been erased, it can NEVER be reinstated on the student’s academic transcript at a later date.

NOTE: The word Erase with respect to this policy does not mean that the course work and grades for any semester disappear from the transcript. All course work and grades will continue to be visible. However, the grades will not be factored into the student’s cumulative GPA.

Any student granted permission to erase term(s) will have a statement printed on his/her transcript indicating the term erasure. Students receiving veterans benefits are cautioned that if they choose to erase an academic term that contained a course that they passed (D or above) and if they received veterans benefits for that term, the erasure could result in a partial loss of future financial benefits.

NOTE: Students who are pursuing a teaching degree (elementary or secondary) are not allowed to exercise the “term-erasure” option due to the need to use grades for all courses for teaching licensure.
 
For further information, contact the Office of Academic Records.