SATISFACTORY PROGRESS – ACADEMIC EXPECTATIONS
The Botany Department’s minimum grade requirements are as stated by The Graduate School Minimum Degree Requirement as stated here: grad.wisc.edu/catalog/degreq_criteria.htm
- To remain in good standing as a student in the Botany Department, students are expected to:
- To take courses and pass
- Participate actively in research
- And lab group activities
- Pass necessary exams on schedule
- And make satisfactory progress in their independent research.
- A GPA requirement of program requires more than 3.0 (overall)
- Course/seminar attendance requirements (see section VI.2)
- Overall program or specific milestone completion requirements and their deadlines and/or time limits See PhD/MS timelines
- Incomplete grade requirements (time limit for removal, maintenance minimums, etc.)
- Continuous enrollment and/or credit requirements
An essential component of graduate training is satisfactory performance in research:
A student’s failure to comply with the above mentioned expectations for satisfactory progress may result in disciplinary action or dismissal. See the next section for more details.
Continuation in the Graduate School is at the discretion of a student’s program, the Graduate School, and a student’s faculty advisor.
The Graduate School sets minimum standards that all graduate students in the university must meet. Many departments and programs have additional requirements that exceed these Graduate School minimum requirements. The definition of satisfactory progress varies by program. The Graduate School Catalog, grad.wisc.edu/catalog, includes the Graduate School’s minimum degree requirements and each program’s minimum criteria for satisfactory progress.
The Graduate School requires that students maintain a minimum graduate GPA of 3.00 in all graduate-level work (300 or above, excluding research, audit, credit/no credit, and pass/fail courses) taken as a graduate student unless probationary admission conditions require higher grades. The Graduate School also considers Incomplete (I) grades to be unsatisfactory if they are not removed during the subsequent semester of enrollment; however, the instructor may impose an earlier deadline.
A student may be placed on probation or suspended from the Graduate School for low grades or for failing to resolve incompletes in a timely fashion. (grad.wisc.edu/acadpolicy/#probation )
In special cases the Graduate School permits students who do not meet these minimum standards to continue on probation upon recommendation and support of their advisor.
Most programs require satisfactory progress to continue guaranteed funding support. grad.wisc.edu/acadpolicy/#satisfactoryprogress