Academic Catalog 2020-2021

students meets the criteria established by Student Development and maintains Satisfactory Academic Progress. Promise Scholarship: Awarded by our Admissions staff based on the criteria set by the Admissions Department. The amount is unique for each qualifying student based on need. This scholarship is renewable for all four years of full-time enrollment provided the student maintains Satisfactory Academic Progress. Marching Band Scholarships: Awarded to students who have demonstrated talent in marching band, these scholarships are determined by audition before the music department. Award amount varies per student. This scholarship is renewable based on criteria established by the music department along with criteria set in our Satisfactory Academic Progress policy. International Scholarships: Awarded to international students who are not receiving an athletic scholarship, worship or marching band scholarship. The amount is $4,000 for the year and renewable for all four years of full-time enrollment provided the student maintains Satisfactory Academic Progress. Other Sources: We encourage students to seek aid from every possible source, such as Veteran’s Affairs, Rehabilitative Services, employer reimbursement, employer pay, community and civic organizations, churches, and local scholarship programs. Students should also check out www.fastweb.com and www.finaid.org. Students should notify us if they are receiving an outside award, so that the expected award may be included in the award package. This will help determine your balance due at the start of the school year in advance of receiving these funds. It is also important that we include these awards in your financial aid package to avoid any federal overpayment conditions, which could affect your future eligibility for aid. Enrollment & Academic Decisions Affecting Your Aid Eligibility Your financial aid award is an estimate of your federal, state, and institutional eligibility. Factors that could change, lower, or even eliminate your financial aid eligibility include: • not attending, dropping, or withdrawing from courses and/or sub-terms you are registered to attend, • completely withdrawing, • failing to properly withdraw, • failing to maintain Financial Aid satisfactory academic progress, • providing incomplete or inaccurate information during the application process, • receiving additional sources of aid (such as outside grants or private loans), • receiving aid above the amount of tuition, • changing enrollment level (some scholarships require full-time enrollment; Stafford loans require half-time enrollment), • changing between on-campus to an online student status, and vice versa, • defaulting on a student loan or having an unresolved federal grant overpayment, • providing false or misleading information, • receiving federal aid for the same academic year at another institution, • repeating a course for which you already received a passing grade more than once,

• attending more than four years, and • failure to meet scholarship stipulations.

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