Retroactive Appeals to Drop a Class or All Classes from a Prior Semester for Psychological Reasons

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Follow these steps:

  1. Meet with an advisor in your department, college, or program.
    • Discuss the academic difficulty and explore your academic options with an advisor in your college. The deans in each college oversee the academic appeals process.  Contact your department for specific information on how to file an appeal to drop a class or all classes from a prior semester. 
    • Department Contact Information  
  2. Pick up the petition in your department
    • Your advisor will provide the appropriate forms for the petition. 
  3. If you were in treatment at CSPS sometime during the semester pertaining to your petition, ask your CAPS therapist (either by phone 919-966-3658 or email if you are comfortable contacting them in this way) to complete the CAPS portion (page 4) of the petition, and submit it to Advising.
  4. If you were in treatment with a provider somewhere other than CAPS sometime during the semester  pertaining to your petition, have that provider submit documentation of your diagnosis, dates of treatment, and his or her opinion regarding the degree of academic impairment caused by the disorder directly to Advising.  You do not need an additional evaluation at CAPS.