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University Regents’ Testing Program
Each institution of the University System of Georgia must assure the other institutions, and the System as a whole, that students obtaining a degree from that institution possess literacy competence, that is, certain minimum skills of reading and writing. Therefore students enrolled in undergraduate degree programs shall pass the Regents’ Test as a requirement for graduation. In Spring 2011, Valdosta State University was granted an exemption to the Regents’ Test requirement.
Beginning in Summer 2011, for undergraduate students at Valdosta State University, the Regents Test requirement will be fulfilled by a passing grade in English 1102.*
At the end of spring semester 2011, the Registrar’s office will conduct an audit to review all students in the system who have passed ENGL 1102 but not yet satisfied the Regents’ Test requirement. For those students still enrolled at VSU, those students who have passed ENGL 1102 will be marked as having completed the Regents’ Test requirement. For those students not currently enrolled at VSU, the Registrar will attempt to make contact with any student who within the last year has met all degree requirements with the exception of the Regents’ Test and discuss a process for graduation.
For students who have not been in attendance at VSU for more than one calendar year (prior to Summer 2010), in accordance with VSU policy, they must apply for readmission to the University, using the Readmission Form available at http://www.valdosta.edu/registrar/documents/Undergrad_Readmission_APP.pdf . Once processed by the Registrar, this readmission will allow an advisor in the student’s major to evaluate the student’s transcript and complete any needed substitution or waiver forms (the Registrar’s Office, per BOR policy, destroys all such forms after 5 years). In addition, the department must approve if it wishes to waive the current degree requirements in favor of the requirements in place at the time the student originally entered VSU. After this process has been completed, the student may apply for graduation the next available term.
*Students failing ENGL 1102 will be required to register for the class each subsequent semester in which they are enrolled at VSU. They will also be required to meet with a tutor in VSU’s Student Success Center to develop a remediation plan.