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C. QUANTITATIVE MEASUREMENT: Pace of Progression - Other aid,
minimum hours to complete
Students receiving the following types of financial aid must complete with a passing
grade the following credit hours each semester in which funding is received:
1. Direct loans (Subsidized and/or unsubsidized and/or PLUS) – Six hrs. (or
½ time)
2. Federal and/or Texas work-study – Six hrs. (or ½ time)
3. Texas Public Education Grants (TPEG) – Three hrs.
4. Federal Supplemental Education Opportunity Grant (FSEOG) – Six hrs. (or
½ time)
5. TVCC departmental scholarships – 12 hrs.
Grades of “W” or “I” will count as attempted but not completed and will not satisfy
the hours completed requirements for Satisfactory Academic Progress assessment.
An “IP” received in a developmental course will be counted as a “C” in calculating
financial aid GPA and will count as a completed course for Satisfactory Academic
Progress assessment.
D. QUANTITATIVE MEASUREMENT: Duration of Eligibility and 150% Time
Frame Limit
Effective with the 2012-2013 award year, a student can be eligible to receive a
Federal Pell Grant for 12 full-time semesters (or its equivalent). Once a student has
reached this limit, there is no appeal available.
A student pursuing a two-year program of study (Associate Degree) or a one-year
program of study (Certificate) may receive financial aid for up to 150% of the hours
his/her degree plan requires. Students who exceed the time frame, semester-hour
limit will no longer be eligible for financial aid. Developmental courses do not count
toward the 150% limit. However, a student is also limited to receiving financial aid
for 30 semester hours of developmental coursework. Withdrawals, failures and
repeated courses count toward this 150% limit. Therefore, we must have a
transcript from each institution attended, whether the student received financial aid
there or not. If a student is denied financial aid because he has exceeded the time-
frame limit, a “Degree Plan Audit” may be submitted by following the instructions in
the appeal section of this section.
FINANCIAL AID WARNING
If, after the first semester of receiving financial aid, a student does not meet either
the minimum hours completion requirement
OR
the GPA requirement, he/she will
be placed on
financial aid warning.
Student placed on “financial aid warning”
status
WILL
be able to receive financial aid for the next semester of enrollment.
