2002-2004 Catalog - St. Charles Community College

Tuition and Financial AssistanceVETERANS BENEFITSYour local Veterans Administration Office hasinformation about veterans benefits. The collegewill provide counseling and other assistance to youon request. The campus veterans representative isavailable to assist you with any problems that affectyour academic life.Veterans benefits are available according to thefollowing course-load guidelines:Course LoadFull timeThree-fourths timeHalf timeLess than half timeFall, Spring12 or more hours9-11 hours6-8 hours1-5 hoursVeterans Standards of ProgressThe Veterans Administration may refuse to payeducational benefits to a veteran who fails to makesatisfactory progress toward a specified educationalgoal. The Veterans Administration will be notified ifthe veteran:• Fails to declare an educational goal(major) within the first semester. Theveteran must become a regular student in aspecific program.• Fails to have previous college transcriptsevaluated and applied toward thecurrent program.• Fails to convert an “I” grade to a lettergrade before the end of the followingsemester.• Accumulates more than 12 hours ofF grades.• Allows the cumulative grade point averageto fall below the minimum standards for twosemesters in a row. See “SatisfactoryAcademic Progress” on page 25.The Veterans Administration will not pay forrepeat courses for which a passing grade (A, B, C,D) has already been received unless the programbeing followed requires a specific passing grade.The VA will not pay for courses that do not earncredit and/or are not computed into the GPAand/or are not necessary for progress toward thespecified educational goal.CONFIDENTIALITY OFFINANCIAL RECORDSThe General Education Provision Act of 1974, asamended by the Family Educational Rights and PrivacyAct of 1974, provides for privacy safeguardsfor students and families by setting up guidelinesfor the disclosure of education records and personallyidentifiable information. The law providesthat financial assistance records of a student maybe inspected by that student with the followingexception: the Financial Assistance Office will notrelease to a dependent student the financialrecords of his or her parents without the writtenconsent of the parents.27