Department of Clinical Psychology – Academic Progress Status

1. Satisfactory Progress

   To maintain satisfactory progress, students are expected to:

   1. Accumulate departmental credit hours, verified by credit reports, as follows:
      • End of year one: 30-32 credit hours
      • End of year two: 60-64 credit hours
      • End of year three: 90-96 credit hours
      • End of year four: 120-128 credit hours

      (with the exception of the student who takes a half-time internship in their fourth year; in which case the credit hours for year four are twenty-four).

   2. Complete the program within seven years, consistent with the Program’s Statute of Limitations policy. (A student who has taken an approved leave or forced interim will have the maximum time frame for completion of the program extended for the length of the leave or interim period.)
   3. Be up-to-date on all program requirements including, but not limited to, completion of required courses and practica and the timely completion of Qualifying Examinations.
   4. Earn a rating of “Good” or better in the “Overall Course Performance” category for all courses except weekend workshops, in which “Satisfactory with Concerns” will constitute minimally satisfactory academic progress. The “Overall Course Performance” is the overall rating that a faculty member gives in their course evaluations. This is the rating that is used as the part of the probation policy.

2. Academic Warning

   1. Academic Warning is considered a pre-probationary warning and can be assigned out of any academic review process (advisor meeting, special review, annual review).

3. Academic Probation

   1. Probationary status indicates substandard performance which, if the pattern persists, would result in disenrollment from the doctoral program. Formal designation of probationary status is intended to alert the student and faculty to the severity of the problem, and to mobilize appropriate efforts to resolve it.
   2. The following situations automatically trigger probationary status:
      1. Failure to complete the minimum required credits for each year as specified above. A student who has dropped a required course is failing to complete the minimum credit hours.
      2. Receipt of more than one “Overall Course Performance” rating of “Satisfactory with Concerns” in a semester length course.
      3. Receipt of one “No Credit (NC)” or “Unsatisfactory” in an “Overall Course Performance” rating in any course.
   3. A student may also be placed on probation for any of a variety of other performance or conduct concernsidentified in an Annual Review or Special Annual Review. Such concerns include but are not limited to issues surrounding interpersonal fitness, unprofessional behavior, ethical violations, lack of dissertation progress, a pattern of “Satisfactory with Concerns” or “Unsatisfactory” descriptors that are not in the “Overall Course Performance” area, problems on internship, etc. A student may be placed on probation even if the student passes the course or practicum in which the problematic incident occurred and credit was received.
   4. Students will receive written or email notification of academic probation from the the Department within three weeks (counting only weeks when school is in session) after the determination of probationary status.
   5. Probationary status ends by:
      1. Retaking the courses that were problematic and achieving a “Good” or better in the “Overall Course Performance” rating. A successful retake establishes the student’s competence in the relevant domain, but it does not eradicate the earlier evaluation for purposes of cumulative review. In particular, the earlier evaluation will still be counted toward the total number of credits of S or U, which are among the triggers for special review: and;
      2. Attaining candidacy, which requires that all requirements up to the Fall of the fourth year be satisfactorily completed. In some circumstances candidacy may be granted if there is a viable plan for completing all outstanding elements of the program, with the exception of the dissertation, within the year prior to internship (e.g., completing a required workshop that was not done earlier). Students must obtain candidacy to apply for internships.

4. Disenrollment

   1. Students are automatically recommended for disenrollment to the Antioch University New England Registrar for failure to perform satisfactorily at the graduate level and/or make satisfactory progress towards the degree for any of the following reasons:
      1. Failure to meet the requirements for removal from Academic Probation by the end of the sixth year in the program
      2. Receipt of an “Overall Course Performance” rating in two or more courses of “No Credit (NC)” or “Unsatisfactory”, including a retake of the same course
      3. Accumulating a total of six (6) or more credits of U or a combination of eight (8) or more credits of “S” and “U” ratings in “Overall Course Performance”
      4. By two failures of EITHER the Comprehensive Section of the Qualifying Examination or the Intervention Section of the Qualifying Examination (students would not be automatically recommended for disenrollment until they had failed two administrations of the same QE section).
   2. A student may also be recommended for disenrollment for other serious reasons according to the judgment of any academic review [advisor meeting, special review, annual review]. They include but are not limited to issues surrounding interpersonal fitness, unprofessional behavior, ethical violations, lack of dissertation progress, a pattern of “Satisfactory with Concerns” or “Unsatisfactory” descriptors that are not in the overall area, problems on internship, etc. This may be done even if the student passes the course or practicum in which the problematic incident occurred and credit was received.
   3. Students will receive written or email notification of the recommendation for disenrollment from the Department within three weeks (counting only weeks when school is in session) after the determination of that status.
   4. The disenrollment policy applies whether or not a student is currently or was previously on probation.

For further details regarding these guidelines, see the departmental handbook.