Questions about Health Withdrawals
Kelly Gray
Greetings,
Wondering if any of you have campus policies that provide additional refunds/benefits to students taking health withdrawals?
At UMass Amherst, students can withdraw from all their classes by asking for a University Withdrawal. These are coded in 5 types: Personal, Health, Academic, Financial, and Military. Students taking a health withdrawal have to submit corresponding paperwork from a counselor or physician (directly to health services) and they need to meet with either the UMass Amherst counseling center or health services in order to be eligible to reenroll at UMass Amherst.
Many students skip the health withdrawal process, opting for a personal withdrawal, so they don’t need to work with our counseling center or health services. Often I get the question, “what is the benefit of completing the extra steps to do a health withdrawal?. The answer being, there isn’t a benefit. All types of withdrawals follow the same refund schedule and all withdrawals look the same on a student’s transcript.
If any of you work on a campus that has policies to encourage taking a health withdrawal, I’d appreciate hearing from you.
Sincerely,
Kelly
Kelly A. Gray, Ed.D
Associate Dean of Students for Student Life
227 Whitmore
Preferred Pronouns: She, her, and hers
Li, Justin V.
Hi, Kelly:
At The New School health withdrawals were used for a couple of reasons. The first is that if someone withdrew after the Withdrawal deadline it was an automatic WF and health withdrawals would avoid the failing grade on the transcript. Second, it allowed students to appeal for tuition and other refunds outside of the refund schedule. Third, we had a high number of international students and they could go below full time with a medically reduced courseload and, after the withdrawal deadline if they were withdrawing from all classes it meant an automatic health withdrawal. We also had a few cases of students we knew who were severely impacted by mental health who took a regular withdrawal and the university made the decision to make it health withdrawal.
At Pacific University we don’t have the same system, just regular withdrawals and administrative withdrawals after the withdrawal deadline.
-Justin
Justin Li | Manager of Student Support | 503-352-2078
Student Life | Clark Hall 130
Pacific University | 2043 College Way
Forest Grove, OR 97116
Go Boxers! |
pacificu.edu
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