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• Probation Workshop
• ACE Advising Center
• Advising - Career - EOP
• ACE.Assistants_at_sonoma.edu
• 707-664-2427
• www.sonoma.edu/sas/advising

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• Why are you here?!
• Register for classes/HOLD
• What happens next
• What are the policies
• What is getting in-the-way
• What resources are available

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Turning around Probation go over I. Your
Schedule II. Your Study Habits III. Your Living
Situation(s)
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• I. Your Schedule
• When you have your classes
• The Professor / Instructor you have
• Morning / evening person

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• II. Your Study Habits
• Not going to class
• Your level of motivation
• Health
• Personal Issues

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• III. Living Situation
• Roommates / Partying
• Negative Influences
• Distractions
• Relationships
• Home-sick

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What are the Policies? go over 1. Repeats 2.
Retro-Active Withdrawals 3. Probation 4.
Disqualification
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• 1. Repeats
• C- 1.7 gpa can be
• 1- Repeated and prior grade replaced
• 2- Can be taken at community college
• C 2.0 gpa will
• 1- Not replace a prior grade
• 2- Can be repeated as many times
• 3- Grades will be averaged, NOT replaced

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2. Retro-Active Withdrawal a- Needs
documentation b- From entire semester c- Will
lose the Credit Units attempted (UA)
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• 3. Probation
• -Probation decided solely on overall GPA SSU
  GPA 
• -If get lt a 2.0 in a given semester, are not on
  Probation if are above 2.0 in both overall GPA
  and SSU GPA.  
• 1. Semester GPA
• 2. Sonoma GPA
• 3. Overall GPA
• Need an gt2.0 gpa to graduate
• Red Flag that something is not working
• Remediation Units are not factored

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4. Disqualification - Can't be disqualified until
been on Probation 1 time - Sliding Scale by
units - The more units a student has - The
harder it is to raise GPA
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Min. GPA Index
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• 4. Disqualification
• if disqualified from University, must
• Leave for at least 1 semester
• Attend a Community or Private College
• Take the classes for Repeats
• Demonstrate ability to succeed at SSU
• Reapply for Re-instatement

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• Resources on Campus
• go over
• 15 Ways to improve your GPA
• Tutorial Center
• Writing Center (Library)
• Study Groups
• Counseling Center

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1. 15 Ways to improve GPA - Learn what the
professor wants - Course expectations are - Learn
how you work - Your strengths, limitations,
learning styles - Balance work and play
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Improving your GPA
15 Techniques to help students excel at the
university/college level
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• 2. Tutorial Learning Skills Services (LSS)
• - Tutors have taken courses
• - Individual One-on-One Instruction
• Mathematics
• Academic Writing
• Study Skills
• Academic Reading
• - Salazar 1040
• - www.sonoma.edu/lss/individualinstruction.shtml

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3. Writing Center (Library) - Produce better
written documents - We work one-on-one with
individual in - Small groups to help develop
writing skills - How to write well -
www.sonoma.edu/programs/writingcenter/default.html

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• 4. Study Groups
• Make a tutoring appointment
• Tutoring Center in Salazar Hall 1040
• 2. Fill out a Tutee Intake Form
• 3. Tutoring by Subjects
• www.sonoma.edu/sas/tutorial

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• 5. Counseling Center (CAPS)
• Confidential counseling
• Personal problems
• Issues affecting academics, career or well being
• Brief Therapy (1-8 sessions)
• www.sonoma.edu/counselingctr

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• Are you in the Right Major?
• Attend Pre-Major workshops
• Sign-up at Department
• Schedules online
• Level of motivation?
• Will tend to do better
• Improve your GPA

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Choosing a Major?

• CAREER SERVICES
• I need help choosing a major?
• TESTING
• Strongs Inventory 20
• Myers Briggs 16
• Choosing a Major 5
• Tests offered at SSUGRELSATWEPT

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• What is Your Unit Load?
• Do have a job?
• Taken at appropriate times
• Petition for excessive units gt21
• Will need gt12 units for
• Financial Aid
• Athletics
• Housing
• Personal Insurance
• Transferring to other Universities

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• Intersession?
• Every January
• To get ahead in GE courses
• To repeat of courses
• To make-up units deficiencies
• www.ssuexed.com/programs.php?id112semWinter

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• How to Calculate GPA?
• /- system
• C- 1.7
• I Incomplete
• - Have 1 year to complete work
• - Turns to F thereafter
• 4. Units x Points Grade Points

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GPA Calculations
Units

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GPA Lingo
UA Units attempted for a grade (A-F) UE Units
earned/completed for either a grade (A-F) or for
CR/NC (Must have at least 2.0 C level work) W
Withdrawal, after 2nd week but before 6th week.
UW Unauthorized Withdrawal F calculated into
GPA I Incomplete
Link Online
GPA calculator www.sonoma.edu/sas/advising/gpa
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Credit/No Credit CR/NC Optimizing your GPA
Grade Points
Example 1. BIO 110 (4) B 12 2. ENGL
101 (3) A 12 3. MATH 161 (4) B
12 4. POLS 200 (3) CR/NC n/a or D (1) 5.
KIN 101 (1) A 4
Units Grade
...if Grade
With CR/NC 12 40 3.00
Without 15 41 2.73
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• Resources Tools
• go over
• Degree Progress Report
• Semester Calendar
• Forms online

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• Degree Progress Report?
• Where you can find actual Sonoma GPA
• Color coded for
• completed
• in-progress
• needs to be completed

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1. Enrollment date and time (or open
registration,) you may begin adding classes.
Please check for any 2. Holds that may prevent
you from registering. On the left menu bar, click
on "Self Service" -gt "Enrollment" -gt
"EnrollmentAdd Classes" (see figure below).

Procedure online!
www.sonoma.edu/ar/registration/addclasses.shtml
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Calendar
http//www.sonoma.edu/ar/calendars
Link Online
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Forms

• Records Registration
• (Petition to) Add
• Change your Address online
• Change of Name form
• Change in Grad or Credential Status
• Consent Form
• Cross Enrollment Form (CSU and Comm College)
• Cross Enrollment, UC Berkeley (doc)
• Concurrent or Visitor Enrollment (CSU)
• Enrollment Verification
• GE substitution form
• Graduation Changes Form
• Graduation Matriculation Form
• Leave of Absence
• Petition to Take More Than 20 Units
• Repeat of Course Form
• Registration Instructions for International
  Students
• Reissue of Diploma form
• Reinstatement form

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• Review Summary
• Register for classes/HOLD
• What happens next
• What are the policies
• What is getting in-the-way
• Resources

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Questions?

• Probation Workshop
• View Schedule of Workshops online
• gt www.sonoma.edu/sas/advising/probation_workshop
• ACE Advising Center
• Advising - Career - EOP
• ACE.Assistants_at_sonoma.edu
• 707-664-2427
• www.sonoma.edu/sas/advising