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I believe that you have a well thought out argument, however you ignore an imortant facts of college life. College is supposed to prepare you for your "working adult life".

That said consider that unless you are self-employed or a CEO you will "be taking orders" from management in whatever career are aspiring to. You will meet people with unreasonable demands, who are poor leaders or worse are managers who see their employess as things to manage rather htan people.

You will meet people in charge who are talking out their ass who will setting the direction of your job and possible the company and this will directly affect your career.

So Jenny has a bad year and with that she gets put on probation that really was put in place to keep slackers from prolonging their drag on the academic institution. Is it fair? No, probably not but that is why they have Deans at each school so that Jenny can haul herself into the Dean and explain the situation.

If she presents a graet argument she might get a repreive. With a goos argument she might get told that the rules are the rules no matter how inane they are.

So what we are talking about is preparing Jenny for life and as unfair as the rule she is going to run up agianst it all her life. Welcome to being an adult.

I think you could benefit from a little more research.
http://web.uconn.edu/uconnconnects/resources/probation_dismissal.htm
This is a link to the University's probation and dismissal policies.

You may also be interested to know that UConn has multiple programs to help students like "Jenny" and even "Bill", the freshman who spent his first semester shopping on ebay instead of going to class and pulled off a .7 GPA. It happens. And, trust me, no one at the University is taking a "you screwed up, now get out attitude". As a UConn Connects facilitator and the student supervisor of the Academic Achievement Center, I can assure you doing some research into UConn's programs may have helped you to more accurately describe the dismissal process in writing this piece.

Additionally, dismissal doesn't just happen. Two semesters of Academic Probation make you subject to dismissal, not automatically dismissed. There is a process in which each student's case is reviewed individually and other factors beyond what's on the transcript are considered.

I'd also like to point out, from a personal standpoint, that I have known several "Jenny"s and "Bill"s and seen friends leave UConn because they couldn't meet the academic standards. It seems unfair and harsh, but college is hard. And succeeding at UConn has a lot to do with rising to the challenge, and not everyone does. But there are tons of resources and places to go for help. Several are offered by the office of First Year Programs and Learning Communities. In the Academic Achievement Center, successful students provide process coaching to students who ask for help. They don't have to be on probation or even struggling, they just have to walk in to have access to not just study tips and time management resources but a friend and an advocate who will help them to rise to the challenges that UConn presents.

this article is a bit silly. If you read the policy very directly, yes it seems scary, but the university wont kick you out after two semesters with a bad GPA when your overall GPA is still B+.

the reason why the policy is written the way it is concerns the university being allowed to kick out people who abuse the system (i.e. freshmen who get all F's and went to uconn just to party). To kick them out, the university has to have a policy set in place that details a student can be kicked our after 2 semesters of a GPA below this level..etc.. it wont apply to a junior having temporary personal issues.

i agree with those policies but you people need to not be to striked!