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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body bgcolor=white background="cid:image001.jpg@01CCA2E7.AE7155F0" lang=EN-US link=blue vlink=purple><img src="cid:image001.jpg@01CCA2E7.AE7155F0" v:src="cid:image001.jpg@01CCA2E7.AE7155F0" v:shapes="_x0000_Mail" width=0 height=0 class=shape style='display:none;width:0;height:0'><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'>Registration for the Spring 2012 semester has been going on for the past few weeks. Students who are receiving financial aid and academic advisors/ Success Coaches need to remember the following:<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'><br></span>Courses completed with a passing grade and repeated only for purposes of improving the GPA in the course or to meet the minimum number of hours to qualify for financial aid will not be paid by financial aid. Financial aid will be permitted only in such cases when the grade is not acceptable for the degree program the student is pursuing at A&M-Commerce.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'>Example 1: When financial aid <b><u>IS</u></b> acceptable to pay for repeating a course<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'>Student receives financial aid and enrolls in a course completing the course with a C.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'>The course is part of the major and to be considered acceptable to the degree the course must be completed with a B or higher. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'>The student needs to retake the course since the course is part of the major and must be completed with a B or higher in order to be taken into the degree.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'>Financial aid can be used to pay for repeating the course.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'>Example 2: When financial aid is <b><u>NOT</u></b> acceptable to pay for repeating a course<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'>Student receives financial aid and enrolls in a course completing the course with a C.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'>The course is NOT part of the major and is acceptable to the degree with a letter grade of C.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'>The student wants to retake the course to see if they receive a better grade though the higher grade is not required to be accepted towards the degree.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'>Financial aid cannot be used to pay for repeating the course in this example.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'>This is a friendly reminder. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'>This information has been available on our web site under “New for 2011-2012” tab.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:18.0pt;font-family:"Rage Italic";color:#365F91'>Maria del C. Ramos<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Century Gothic","sans-serif";color:#0D0D0D'>Director, Office of Financial Aid and Scholarships<br>Texas A&M University-Commerce<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Century Gothic","sans-serif";color:#0D0D0D'>PO Box 3011</span><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Century Gothic","sans-serif";color:#0D0D0D'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Century Gothic","sans-serif";color:#0D0D0D'>Commerce, TX 75249-3011<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Century Gothic","sans-serif";color:#0D0D0D'>Phone: 903-886-5091<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Century Gothic","sans-serif";color:#0D0D0D'>Fax: 903-886-5098<br></span><b><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Century Gothic","sans-serif";color:#365F91'><a href="http://web.tamu-commerce.edu/">http://web.tamu-commerce.edu/</a><br></span></b><span lang=EN style='font-size:8.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black'>“Most business men generally are so busy coping with immediate and piecemeal matters that there is a lamentable tendency to let the "long run" or future take care of itself. We often are so busy "putting out fires," so to speak, that we find it difficult to do the planning that would prevent those fires from occurring in the first place. As a prominent educator has expressed it, Americans generally "spend so much time on things that are urgent that we have none left to spend on those that are important."</span><span lang=EN style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><i><span style='font-size:8.0pt;color:black'>Gustav Metzman<o:p></o:p></span></i></p><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Century Gothic","sans-serif";color:#365F91'><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Century Gothic","sans-serif";color:#A88420'>Please take a minute to complete our </span><a href="http://web.tamu-commerce.edu/audience/onestopshop/"><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Century Gothic","sans-serif";color:#244061'>We Care</span></a><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Century Gothic","sans-serif";color:#A88420'> survey online and let us know how we are doing!<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Century Gothic","sans-serif";color:#365F91'><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Century Gothic","sans-serif";color:#0D0D0D'><img border=0 width=85 height=85 id="Picture_x0020_1" src="cid:image003.png@01CCA2EA.A2F0AA70" alt="Description: Description: SpiritLogo.emf"><o:p></o:p></span></p></div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p></div></body></html>