Withdrawal Policy
What if I must leave the University?
We hope you do not have to leave, so please contact someone first. Maybe we can help. If you must leave, there are procedures to follow:
1. To officially withdraw, undergraduate and graduate regularly admitted students should contact the Center for Advising and Student Achievement, located at 202 Aylesworth NE (phone 491-7095).
2. Consult the Center for Advising and Student Achievement for policies regarding grades when withdrawing. If you leave the University and do not formally withdraw, you will be assigned grades of "F" (failure). Additionally, if you do not officially withdraw from the University and receives all “F”, “U”, and/or “W” grades, you will be required to verify the last date of attendance and you may be required to return up to 50% of the financial aid received.
3. Withdrawal does not eliminate your financial obligation to the University. You are responsible for any charges owed to the University at the time you withdraw, based on the University's tuition and housing refund policies. Consult the Center for Advising and Student Achievement and Housing Office for the most current policy.
4. There are specific federal, state, and University policies regarding tuition and fees, housing charges, refunds to financial aid programs, and repayments resulting from withdrawal. Information regarding the calculation of refunds and repayments, and the order of programs to which we restore aid, is available upon request.
5. If your University charges are reduced as a result of withdrawal, and it creates a credit balance on your student account, these funds may be used to repay the financial aid programs. This will depend on the amount of your financial aid and the date of your withdrawal.
6. Withdrawal may require a repayment of financial aid:
- If you withdrew a credit balance from your student account to pay for living expenses, you may have received financial aid funds in excess of an amount reasonable for the length of your enrollment.
- If you withdraw during add/free drop, you are not eligible to receive any financial aid for that term, and any credit balance you withdrew from your student account must be repaid.
- If you received financial aid in excess of earned financial aid, based on the length of your enrollment.
7. If you were eligible to receive a Federal Pell Grant while enrolled in school, your grant may cover educational costs incurred prior to withdrawal, including tuition and fees, housing, and living expenses.
8. Federal Direct Loans, Federal Supplemental Educational Opportunity Grant, Federal Perkins Loan, State Student Incentive Grant, Graduate Grant, Health Professions Loan, and Colorado Student Grant cannot be disbursed after your withdrawal, except when the federal calculation allows. Work-study money earned prior to withdrawal will be paid. Students may not work on work-study after withdrawing from the University.
9. Students who receive financial aid and withdraw multiple times will be placed on financial aid suspension.
Borrowers whose Title IV loans are in an in-school, in-school deferment, or grace period status
If a borrower's loans are in an in-school status, an in-school deferment status, or in a grace period status when the borrower is ordered to active duty or reassigned, the lender must maintain the loans in that status during the period of the borrower's active duty service or reassignment, plus the time necessary for the borrower to resume enrollment in the next regular enrollment period that is reasonably available to the borrower, if the borrower wishes to go back to school. However, this maintenance of loan status may not exceed a total of three years including the period of time necessary for the borrower to resume enrollment. Additionally, if the loan was in a grace period status at the time the borrower was ordered to active duty, the period of time during which the borrower was serving on active duty is excluded and the borrower would receive their full grace period in the future.