Proposed policy revisions will be part of the formal university approval process, including approval by the Educational Policies Council and Faculty Senate. However, to be sure it is fully inclusive and transparent, each policy under revision will include a 15-day feedback period, initiated when the first draft of the policy becomes available. During this time the Kent State community is invited to ask questions, provide comments or present suggestions for these policy revisions before they are submitted for approval.
Policies Under Revision for Academic Year 2025-26
Policy Name: Leave of Absence for Graduate Students (KSU login required)
What has changed: Revised policy provides specific guidance for eligibility for requesting a leave of absence; removes health services from the list of services an inactive student cannot access; established a timely response window for requesting a leave; and added language that students in some accredited programs may be held to time limits no matter an approved leave of absence.
Scope: Graduate students
Feedback period: From 17 February 2026 to 3 March 2026 (11:59 p.m.)
Provide feedback: Link to feedback form
Policy Name: Academic Dismissal - Undergraduate Students (KSU login required)
What has changed: Revised policy (1) clarifies that dismissal does not happen at the end of the summer term; (2) removes first-semester dismissal for full-time students with 9+ credits of failing grades and part-time students with 6+ credits of failing grades; (3) separates the appeal and reinstatement process into a separate policy.
Scope: Undergraduate students
Feedback period: From 11 February 2026 to 24 February 2026 (11:59 p.m.)
Provide feedback: Link to feedback form
Policy Name: Core and Critical Reading Skills Placement (KSU login required) Name changes to Critical Reading Strategies Placement
What has changed: Revised policy removes READ 00003 Core Reading Strategies for College Success, which is being inactivated. Updated language improves readability and clarity and now includes FAQ, definitions and additional resources.
Scope: Undergraduate students
Feedback period: From 11 February 2026 to 24 February 2026 (11:59 p.m.)
Provide feedback: Link to feedback form
Policy Name: Course Privilege for Doctoral Students (KSU login required)
What has changed: Inactivating policy as it is no longer needed.
Scope: Doctoral students
Feedback period: From 11 February 2026 to 24 February 2026 (11:59 p.m.)
Provide feedback: Link to feedback form
Policy Name: English Placement (KSU login required)
What has changed: Revised policy improves readability and clarity and now includes FAQ, definitions and additional resources.
Scope: Undergraduate students
Feedback period: From 11 February 2026 to 24 February 2026 (11:59 p.m.)
Provide feedback: Link to feedback form
Policy Name: Foreign Language Placement (KSU login required)
What has changed: Revised policy improves readability and clarity and now includes FAQ, definitions and additional resources. In addition, acceptable English proficiency tests have been expanded, and CEFR ratings section has been removed.
Scope: Undergraduate students
Feedback period: From 11 February 2026 to 24 February 2026 (11:59 p.m.)
Provide feedback: Link to feedback form
Policy Name: Mathematics Placement (KSU login required)
What has changed: Revised policy improves readability and clarity and now includes FAQ, definitions and additional resources.
Scope: Undergraduate students
Feedback period: From 11 February 2026 to 24 February 2026 (11:59 p.m.)
Provide feedback: Link to feedback form
Policy Name: Placement Assessments (KSU login required)
What has changed: New policy was part of the ;University Readiness and is now separated to improve readability as well as the ability to link to FAQ and departmental pages to assist the student.
Scope: Undergraduate students
Feedback period: From 11 February 2026 to 24 February 2026 (11:59 p.m.)
Provide feedback: Link to feedback form
Policy Name: Posthumous Degrees (KSU login required)
What has changed: Revised policy updated the initial contact and the office responsible for overseeing the process (moving it from the Office of the Provost to the Office of the President). Language was updated to be more inclusive of those requesting recognition, from only parents to now include spouse, domestic partner and child.
Scope: All students
Feedback period: From 11 February 2026 to 24 February 2026 (11:59 p.m.)
Provide feedback: Link to feedback form
Policy Name: Registration (KSU login required)
What has changed: Revised policy eliminates the fee for non-payment for registrations not paid by the end of the 14th calendar day of the semester. Also now includes FAQ, definitions and additional resources.
Scope: All students
Feedback period: From 11 February 2026 to 24 February 2026 (11:59 p.m.)
Provide feedback: Link to feedback form
Policy Name: Transfer of Graduate Credit (KSU login required)
What has changed: Revised policy removes the restriction that graduate credit from an earned degree at another institution cannot be applied toward a Kent State graduate certificate or another non-degree program.
Scope: Graduate students
Feedback period: From 11 February 2026 to 24 February 2026 (11:59 p.m.)
Provide feedback: Link to feedback form
Policy Name: Undergraduate Students Enrolling in Graduate Courses (KSU login required)
What has changed: Revised policy (1) removes restriction that courses cannot later be considered towards a master’s degree; (2) lowers eligibility GPA from 3.300 to 3.000 to align with the Combined Bachelor’s/Master’s Degree Program policy; and (3) lowers the maximum graduate credit hours allowed, from 12 to 9, again to align with the Combined policy.
Scope: Undergraduate students
Feedback period: From 11 February 2026 to 24 February 2026 (11:59 p.m.)
Provide feedback: Link to feedback form
Policy Name: University Readiness Standards and Placement Assessment (KSU login required) Name changes to University Readiness Standards
What has changed: Revised policy updates ODHE thresholds for remediation-free standards and includes FAQ, definitions and additional resources.
Scope: Undergraduate students
Feedback period: From 11 February 2026 to 24 February 2026 (11:59 p.m.)
Provide feedback: Link to feedback form
Policy name: Class Attendance and Class Absence (KSU login required)
What has changed: Revised policy provides greater clarity regarding processes for certain absences and codifies faculty's permission to address excessive student absences that could jeopardize the student's ability to be successful in the class.
Scope: Undergraduate and graduate students
Comment period: From 14 January to 28 January 2026 (11:59 p.m.)
Feedback period: Feedback period has ended
Policy name: Course Repeat (KSU login required)
What has changed: Revised policy allows repeated graduate courses to be eligible for GPA recalculation to remove the lower grade from the GPA.
Scope: Graduate students
Comment period: From 14 January to 28 January 2026 (11:59 p.m.)
Feedback period: Feedback period has ended
Policy name: Grade Point Average (GPA) Adjustment (KSU login required)
What has changed: Revised policy includes graduate students with maximum three course grades allowed to be removed from GPA.
Scope: Graduate students
Comment period: From 14 January to 28 January 2026 (11:59 p.m.)
Feedback period: Feedback period has ended
Policy name: Graduation (KSU login required)
What has changed: Revised policy removes the late graduation application and changes application deadlines to recommended dates by which students should apply for graduation.
Scope: Undergraduate and graduate students
Comment period: From 14 January to 28 January 2026 (11:59 p.m.)
Feedback period: Feedback period has ended
Policy Name: Kent Core Requirement (KSU login required)
What has changed: Committee recommends five key changes to the requirement, which include new learning outcomes, new course distribution and renaming to Pathways of Inquiry.
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Scope: Undergraduate students
Comment Period: From 8 December 2025 to 5 January 2026 (11:59 p.m.)
Provide Feedback: Feedback period has ended
Policy Name: Undergraduate Dismissal (KSU login required)
What has changed: Committee seeks feedback on either (1) eliminating first-semester dismissal or (2) continuing to dismiss students who earn a 0.500 or lower GPA in their first semester.
Review the two options.
Scope: Undergraduate students
Comment Period: From 8 December to 23 December 2025 (11:59 p.m.)
Provide Feedback: Feedback period has ended
Policy Name: American Civic Literacy Requirement (KSU login required)
What has changed: New policy to comply with state regulation (Senate Bill 1).
Scope: Undergraduate students
Comment Period: From 8 December to 23 December 2025 (11:59 p.m.)
Provide Feedback: Feedback period has ended
Policy Name: Academic Standing - Undergraduate Student (KSU login required)
What has changed: Revised policy removes Midterm Warning; renames Not Permitted to Continue to Program Progression; and modifies President's List eligibility, from 15 to 12 graded credit hours. In addition, committee seeks feedback on changing the name of Academic Probation to Academic Warning.
Scope: Undergraduate students
Comment Period: From 23 September until 7 October 2025 (11:59 p.m.)
Provide Feedback: feedback period has ended
Policy Name: Course Numbering System (KSU login required)
What has changed: Revised policy replaces undergraduate student classifications (e.g., freshman, sophomore) with definitions, in addition to adding information on reserved course numbers and add graduate policies that exist elsewhere.
Scope: All students
Comment Period: From 23 September until 7 October 2025 (11:59 p.m.)
Provide Feedback: Feedback period has ended
Policy Name: Diversity Course Requirement (KSU login required)
What has changed: Committee seeks feedback on either (1) eliminating the requirement or (2) eliminating the requirement and establishing a new Perspectives Requirement.
Review the two options.
Scope: Bachelor's degree students
Comment Period: From 23 September until 7 October 2025 (11:59 p.m.)
Provide Feedback: Feedback period has ended
Policy Name: Grade Point Average (GPA) (KSU login required)
What has changed: Revised policy reformats and updates language and adds FAQ, definitions and related information.
Scope: All students
Comment Period: From 23 September until 7 October 2025 (11:59 p.m.)
Provide Feedback: Feedback period has ended
Policy Name: Grading Policies and Procedures (KSU login required)
What has changed: Revised policy updates Pass/Fail to new term Credit/No Credit and adds FAQ, definitions and related information.
Scope: All students
Comment Period: From 23 September until 7 October 2025 (11:59 p.m.)
Provide Feedback: Feedback period has ended
Policy Name: Language Requirement for Graduate Students (KSU login required)
What has changed: Inactivation of the policy.
Scope: Graduate students
Comment Period: From 23 September until 7 October 2025 (11:59 p.m.)
Provide Feedback: Feedback period has ended
Policy Name: University Policy Regarding Graduate Assistantships (KSU login required)
What has changed: Revised policy provides flexibility for academic units to disseminate the tuition remission benefit based on part- and full-time assistantship.
Scope: Graduate students on assistantship
Comment Period: From 23 September until 7 October 2025 (11:59 p.m.)
Provide Feedback: Feedback period has ended
Policy Name: Administrative Policy Regarding Student Cheating and Plagiarism – new name Administrative Policy Regarding Academic Integrity
What has changed: Revised policy adjusts definitions and adds a timeline for submitting an academic integrity violation to be 90 calendar days after the semester of the alleged incident. The process is also streamlined to align with the Office of Student Conduct's hearing process and appeals. In addition, policy name changes to focus on the holistic concept rather than just means to address behavior.
Scope: All students
Provide Feedback: Feedback period has ended