Academic Awareness Program

• Understanding academic status
• Creating a path back to good standing
• Choosing courses
• Creating or updating educational plans
• Exploring career and transfer options

• Connecting with campus resources
• Scheduling counseling appointments
• Removing registration holds
• Academic Coaching for:
  • Time management
  • Study skills
  • Organizational Skills
• Completing forms
• Taking a break from college — and coming back!

You can be placed on academic notice if you have taken at least 18 units at De Anza and your cumulative grade point average (GPA) is below 2.0.

• You will have a registration hold placed on your student account, which will prevent you from registering for next quarter until you meet with an academic counselor.
• If you're on academic notice for more than one quarter, you may also lose your priority registration status.
• You can move off academic notice and return to good academic standing by raising your cumulative GPA to 2.0 or higher.
• If you're on academic notice, you will be sent an email each quarter informing you of your status and the required steps for returning to good standing.
• If your GPA is below 2.0 for five quarters, you may be moved to pause status – which means you can be dropped from your classes and required to sit out for a quarter.
• Visit the Academic / Progress Notice Standards webpage for more information about academic notice standards and requirements for moving off notice, including details about pause status and FAQs.

You can be placed on progress notice if you have enrolled in at least 18 units at De Anza and completed less than 51% of the units for all courses in which you have enrolled. This means you received course grades of W (Withdrawn), I (Incomplete) or NP (No Pass) for at least half of the units you attempted.

• You will have a registration hold placed on your student account, which will prevent you from registering for next quarter until you meet with an academic counselor. 
• If you're on progress notice for more than one quarter, you may also lose your priority registration status.
• You can move off progress notice and return to good standing by passing your classes; avoiding grades of W, I or NP; and raising your cumulative completion rate to 51% or higher.
• If you're on progress notice, you will be sent an email each quarter informing you of your status and the required steps for returning to good standing.
• If your cumulative completion rate is below 51% for five quarters, you may be moved to pause status – which means you can be dropped from your classes and required to sit out for a quarter.
• Visit the Academic / Progress Notice Standards webpage for more information about progress notice  standards and requirements for moving off probation, including details about pause status and FAQs.

Students on academic/progress notice can be placed on academic/progress pause (formerly academic/progress dismissal) if the student’s:

• Cumulative grade point average (GPA) is below 2.0 for five quarters
• Cumulative completion rate is below 51% for five quarters

Students placed on academic/progress pause may be dropped from their classes and required to sit out a quarter.

Students on all levels of academic or progress notice are required to meet with an academic counselor.

• If you are part of a program that has its own academic counselors, please contact the counselor for your program. You will find how to reach them by visiting the Our Counselors webpage.
• If you are not a part of a program that has its own academic counselors, you are an AAP student. AAP students are required to:

1. 1. Meet with an academic counselor via a 30-minute appointment. Please contact the Academic Awareness Program (AAP) team to schedule an appointment with the Academic Awareness Counselor.
   2. Complete and submit the AAP Student Self-Assessment prior to your appointment with the academic counselor so they can help you develop your success plan.
   3. Complete a Comprehensive Educational Plan (if you do not already have one) via a 30-minute appointment with an academic counselor. This requirement can be combined with the required counselor meeting #1 above, if it can be completed within the same 30-minute session.

Only the Appeal Review Committee (ARC) can remove academic/progress pause registration holds via the De Anza Petition to the ARC for Admission After Dismissal. Please see Academic/Progress Pause above for more information.

• If you are part of a program that has its own academic counselors, please contact the counselor for your program for an academic counseling appointment and further assistance. You will find how to reach them by visiting the Our Counselors webpage.
• If you are not a part of a program that has its own academic counselors, the Academic Awareness Program (AAP) cannot remove academic/progress pause registration holds; however, we can help you with this process. For more information and assistance, please speak with an AAP Student Success Specialist.

For all other academic/progress notice registration holds, please see below.

If you are part of a program that has its own academic counselors, please contact the counselor for your program for an academic counseling appointment and further assistance. You will find how to reach them by visiting the Our Counselors webpage.

If you are not a part of a program that has its own academic counselors and would like to have an academic/progress notice registration hold removed, students are required to:

• Complete the AAP Student Self-Assessment
• Complete a 30-minute academic counseling appointment

Registration Hold Removal for AAP Students
The academic/progress notice registration hold will be removed within 24 business hours of completing your academic counseling appointment, or meeting with an academic counselor during drop-in.

If you notice your hold has not been removed within 24 business hours, please reach out to us through our Online Help Desk.

If you are part of a program that has its own academic counselors, please contact the counselor for your program for an academic counseling appointment and further assistance. You will find how to reach them by visiting the Our Counselors webpage.

If you are not a part of a program that has its own academic counselors, and have not completed the requirements noted above, an academic/progress notice registration hold may be removed temporarily during registration periods as a courtesy to students.

To have an academic/progress notice registration hold temporarily removed, students need to:

• Attend a drop-in session with an academic counselor.

Note: You will still need to complete the AAP Student Self-Assessment and 30-minute academic counseling appointment requirements to get the hold fully removed.

Registration Hold Removal for AAP Students
The academic/progress notice registration hold will be removed within 24 business hours of completing your academic counseling appointment, or meeting with an academic counselor during drop-in.

If you notice your hold has not been removed within 24 business hours, please reach out to us through our Online Help Desk.