Retroactive Grade Forgiveness

Did you know that there are many SJSU students who have not claimed their eligible grade forgiveness units for classes they took prior to Fall 2009? If you have students in this situation, please direct them to the Petition for Retroactive Grade Forgiveness on the Undergraduate Studies website at http://www.sjsu.edu/ugs/docs/Petition-Retro_GF.pdf . Students may be eligible for retroactive grade forgiveness when:

1. PeopleSoft did not properly assign (automatically) grade forgiveness to a second attempt taken Fall 2009 or later (this situation is very rare).

2. Prior to Fall 2009, many students were unaware that they could apply for GF (known then as Academic Renewal) and did not claim eligible GF at the time. If requested, retroactive GF for these courses will typically be assigned in the sequence that would have occurred had GF been automatically assigned at that time.

3. A MUSE course (or other First Year Experience (FYE) course) is taken in which students have received a C-, D+, D, D-, or F (first attempt), followed by the completion of another (non-MUSE) course in the same GE area (University Policy S04-2).

4. A course is cross-listed or discontinued, and there is a replacement course with the same or similar content (typically this happens when a course is renumbered or is cross-listed).

5. Course content from the first attempt is included as a part of a more comprehensive course taken for the second attempt (rare; Math 30 followed by Math 30P is an example)