Academic Renewals

No, there is no process to restore or ‘undo’ credit discounted through academic renewal or through course repetition.

The discount notation may be updated to reflect discounting due to repetition on the transcript instead of being due to academic renewal if the repeat was legal (within allowable attempts or authorized by petition for the alleviation of substandard grades through repetition).  

• If the repeat was permissible, the student would retain the grade and units from the most recent attempt and the note on the discounted/renewed attempt would be updated to reflect ‘repetition’ rather than ‘academic renewal’.
• If the repeat was not permissible, the latest attempt would be discounted as an ‘illegal repeat’ and the prior academically renewed attempt would remain discounted by academic renewal.

This update can be initiated a couple of ways:

• Submitting a Substandard Grade Repeat Notification Form online to notify A&R that a course has been repeated following academic renewal.
• Submitting a graduation petition.  A&R will identify and address any discount notation issues while evaluating the student’s graduation petition.

Not exactly, Los Rios regulations were updated Spring 2024 to clarify academic renewal does not prohibit repetition, but discounts substandard grades in the absence of repetition to be consistent with title 5 language on ‘Academic Renewal without Course Repetition’. 

Historically, Los Rios academic renewal forms and college catalogs reflected that academic renewal was permanent and, once renewed, a course could not be repeated.  Neither local nor state regulations prohibited repetition following renewal.  The enrollment system permitted repetition following renewal and where repetition was allowable students were able to retain their credit.  When A&R identified repetition had occurred, the discount note was updated as indicated above.

When academic renewal regulations were updated to include exception language for AB705/AB1705, clarification was added that academic renewal did not make a course unrepeatable.  Academic renewal forms and the college catalogs were updated to remove language advising repetition was not possible after renewal and communications about the AB705/AB1705 exception included the clarification in the academic renewal language