College
of Arts and Sciences Advising Center:
The
Common Hold
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Registration
Holds (Negative Service Indicators) are placed on students for a variety
of reasons. They prevent you from
registering until they are lifted. For
a list of the different holds and where to go to have them removed click here. |
Some Common Holds:
Some
departments elect to place advising hold (RVS Holds) on their major. This requires that the student meet with
his/her major advisor prior to registering. After meeting with the student, the
advisor will contact the
Students with more than 60 credits
who have not been officially admitted into an upper division academic unit have
RUS holds placed on their registration.
Students with a RUS hold should come to the
CLAST registration holds (RUG Holds) are placed
when a student has 96 credit hours and has yet to clear all portions of the
CLAST. This is potentially a serious problem. At 96 credits a student maybe as
little as 24 credit hours away from graduation. CLAST is not only a graduation
requirement;
The Graduation Office will not even
accept an application for graduation
or application to walk commencement if we do not have in our official records
that the student has cleared CLAST.
To remove this hold students must:
1) Print two copies of the CLAST hold/release
form. This form is available at: https://testing.fiu.edu/documents/CLAST_Release_Form_new.doc
2) Take completed forms to the major advisor for
signature.
3) Bring both signed forms to the
RWP
or RD Holds: (Academic Warning, Probation and Dismissal)
Some departments request that
Registration place a RWP Hold (Warning/Probation
hold) on students who are on Academic
Warning (their institutional GPA has fallen below 2.0 for the first time)
or Academic Probation (their
institutional GPA remained below 2.0 for two or more consecutive
semesters). This hold requires that they
see an advisor in order to get a RWP hold form signed to take to the
Students on Probation (their institutional GPA has been below 2.0 for two or more consecutive semesters) who then let their term GPA fall below a 2.0 are Academically Dismissed. These students must either wait one year to be readmitted or they may appeal for reinstatement.
To do the latter, they need a memo
from their major department authorizing the reinstatement and bring it to the