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The Office of the Provost and Senior Vice President for Academic Affairs serves as the official university distribution point for all academic policies and procedures. Memoranda, forms, policy statements and other communications are used to distribute all policies and other information that must reach administrators, faculty and staff, and students across the University. For more information about any of the policies listed below, please contact the Provost's Office.

Effective Date	Category	Subject	Policy Statement/ Language
Fall 2006	Admission Requirements	No individual grades of D	No individual grades of D will be accepted in transfer. Grades of D earned by students who have earned an Associate of Arts or Associate of Science degree will be accepted as part of the degree. ( Individual departments or majors, however, may not accept D's for courses required for the major.)
Fall 2007	General Education	Foreign Language Policy	All students entering fall of 2002 or later must demonstrate a level of proficiency in a single language other than English in order to be eligible for graduation. Returning students who have been out for two or more long terms are also subject to the language requirement. Please view the attached document for additional means by which this requirements may be satisfied.
Fall 2007	General Education	Critical Thinking Course	All CSU students are required to complete a Critical Thinking course and a Diversity course. These courses are embedded in the curriculum, so that a course may be used to fulfill BOTh a general education social sciences course requirement, for example, AND the diversity requirement.
Fall 2008	Degree Requirements	Exception for Military Personnel	Active duty Military Personnel may complete the 30 hour residency requirement at any time during their academic program, if all such courses counted toward the completion of the 30 hours be upper division level.
Fall 2008	General Education	Exception to Foreign Language	Board of Governors students may substitute a computer science or technology course related to the student's concentration and a speech course to satisfy the 6-hour foreign language requirement.
Fall 2008	General Education	Pre- baccalaureate degrees	Any student who transfers to CSU with an Associate or Arts or an Associate of Science Degree will be deemed to have completed ALL University general education requirements including those University requirements which exceed the Illinois General Education Core Curriculum. This policy will not override the requirements of any College, Department, Program or Major. Any student who transfers to CSU WITHOUT an Associate of Arts or an Associate of Science Degree, but with 75 or more credit hours and has completed the Illinois GECC requirements BEFORE transferring, will be deemed to have completed all University general education requirements including those University requirements which exceed the Ilinois General Education Core Curriculum. This policy will not override the requirements any College, Department, Program or Major. Any student who transfers to Chicago State University with an Associate of Arts or an Associate of Science Degree will not be required to take proficiency examinations in English, Mathematics, or Reading. However, if individual courses in specific majors require a passing score on a proficiency examination as a prerequisite, all students, including transfer students, must satisfy the prerequisite by taking the proficiency examination.
Fall 2008	General Education	Interdisciplinary course	Students whose majors are in the College of Arts and Sciences must complete one interdisciplinary course.
Fall 2008	Graduation Requirements	Examination Policy	Students are no longer required to take and pass the state and federal constitution examinations as part of their graduation requirements.
Fall 2009	Admission Requirements	Board of Governors Program	All students, including Board of Governors students, must have a minimum cumulative GPA of 2.0 in order to be admitted to Chicago State University.