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Umpqua Community College

Umpqua Community College is the regional center for higher education in Douglas County, Oregon, proudly offering an ever-expanding array of in-demand college degree, workforce development, and community learning programs.

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Maintain Financial Aid Eligibility

To continue receiving financial aid, you must maintain satisfactory academic progress. This sounds easy, but there are a lot of things that you have to keep in mind to be a successful financial aid student. This means you need to uphold a good GPA and complete classes while making progress toward successful completion of a degree or certificate. Learn more about the Satisfactory Academic Progress Policy.

GPA

Students must maintain a cumulative grade point average of 2.0 or higher to maintain financial eligibility.

e.g. Total Grade Points / Total Credits = Cumulative Grade Point Average

PACE of Progression

Students must successfully complete 67% or higher of credits attempted to maintain financial eligibility.

e.g. Passed Credits / Attempted Credits = PACE

Maximum Timeframe

Aid is limited to 150% of your program credit length (135 credits) for a two-year degree even if a degree is not earned.

e.g. A typical degree requires 90 credits, which would result in a program length of 90 credits x 150% maximum timeframe = 135 credits

Limits

Financial aid has limits. There are limits on the amount of Pell Grant you can receive (six years or 600%). There are limits on the amount of loans you can receive. These limits are both annual and lifetime. There are limits on state programs like Oregon Promise and Oregon Opportunity Grant. If you plan to get a bachelor’s degree at a four-year university, you will need to be very mindful of your financial aid use, or you will run out of money before you get that bachelor’s degree. There are even limits on the number of credits financial aid will pay for, even if you still have eligibility.

How to Pay for College

Rights and Responsibilities

Student Rights

As a student applying for or receiving financial aid, you have the right to know:

  • The financial aid programs available to you
  • The procedures and deadlines for applying
  • The cost of attendance (Student Budget)
  • The criteria used in offering aid and how Student Need is determined
  • The terms and conditions of any aid accepted
  • How and when aid will be disbursed
  • The College’s refund policy
  • The repayment consequences of withdrawing from the College
  • How Satisfactory Academic Progress (SAP) is evaluated and what happens if it is not maintained
  • How to appeal decisions concerning aid

Student Responsibilities

As a student applying for or receiving aid, it is your responsibility to:

  • Monitor your UCC student email and student self-service account weekly
  • Complete applications accurately and on time
  • Read and follow all instructions when submitting information
  • Read and retain copies of all forms you submit
  • Choose an academic program and understand the requirements for your program
  • Comply with the terms of any Federal Work Study job accepted
  • Maintain Satisfactory Academic Progress (SAP) Standards
  • Notify us if you receive educational funding from sources that do not appear on your offer letter
  • Borrow wisely
Repeating Coursework

Most courses are subject to the financial aid repeat rule. The repeat rules for financial aid mean that the Department of Education will pay for you to retake a class if:

You have failed it and earned an ‘F,’ ‘W’ or a ‘NP’ you can repeat the class as many times as you want, until you pass it or your run out of financial aid.

If you pass a class with at least a ‘D-’ you will get one more repeat.

If you transfer in a course that you have already passed, you will get one repeat of that class.

Note that, even if you can repeat a course that you have not passed it will affect your Satisfactory Academic Progress Policy and continue to use your lifetime financial aid eligibility.

Withdrawal from the College

The Department of Education assumes that students “earn” their financial aid over the course of a term by attending and participating in classes. You cannot “earn” all of your funds unless you attend and/or academically participate for more than 60.1% of the term. This calculation counts all calendar days, including the first and last day of each term, weekends and holidays.

If you withdraw or stop attending before 60.1% of the term has passed, you do not “earn” all of your financial aid funds.

Federal regulations require the college to return the unearned portion of your tuition and fees to the Department of Education. The college will re-assess the tuition and fees no longer paid by the returned financial aid.

Any amount of financial aid returned to the Department of Education as a result of a withdrawal will result in a charge on your student account and must be repaid under the conditions set by the College.

  • Late fees are assessed monthly.
  • Your account may be sent to collections for non-payment.
  • Registrations for future classes may be dropped.
  • Ability to register for classes and/or make changes to your schedule may be suspended.

Please know that unearned aid must be returned to the Department of Education, even if you have documented extenuating circumstances. There are no exceptions.

How to Pay for College