FAQs About Academic Affairs

SAPR stands for Student Academic Progress Report. It lists the classes you have taken that meet your degree requirements, and the classes you have yet to complete. The SAPR was designed to serve as an advising tool and to allow students to audit their progress through a degree program. You can generate your personal SAPR through Student Link. Before you schedule an advising appointment, get on the Web and request a SAPR. You can request a SAPR and print it out from any computer. If you notice any mistakes in your SAPR, report the errors to your advisor.

If you just stop going to class without dropping or withdrawing, you will probably will get an "E" in the class. You can drop the class through the end of the 4th week of classes online using WebReg via Student Link. After the 4th week of classes, your instructor must sign a drop form for you to withdraw from a class. If you are failing a course at the time that you withdraw, your instructor may award you an "E" instead of a "W". After the 8th week of classes, the only way to withdraw from a course is to file a late change petition. You must be able to document circumstances beyond your control for the petition to be considered. You can pick up a late change petition in the College of Engineering Academic Affairs Office in the Engineering Building, Room 200. After you have dropped a class, check your schedule in Student Link. If for any reason the class remains on your schedule, you will receive an E in the class.

As of Monday, May 18, 2009, the University Learning Center in Old Main will be closed. Expanded learning support and tutoring services will be available on the UA campus in fall 2009.

A new student academic support center will be unveiled fall 2009. Thanks to the Student Services Fee allocation -- awarded by the student-led advisory board -- UA students will have more options at their disposal for academic support and learning services.

Located in the Nugent building, the center will offer students tutoring services in writing, math, science, and Tier 1 classes, and weekly course reviews, study skills resources, and a whole lot more. Go visit the new center in the fall or, if you have other questions, call 520.626.0530.

Also, homework help is available through Tau Beta Pi, the Engineering honors society. Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday from 6 p.m. to 8 p.m., Tau Beta Pi students are in Enginering 208 to help students with freshmen and sophomore level courses. Math tutoring is available through the college; dates and times are located in the Academic Affairs Office, Engineering Building, Room 200. Peter Gill, a retired Motorola Executive, coordinates the math tutoring for the college.

No. Students are unlikely to do well in a course if they do not thoroughly know the material taught in the prerequisite course.

Each letter grade is worth grade points: A=4, B=3, C=2, D=1, E=0. For each course you have taken, multiply the number of units (credits) for each course by the number of points for the grade you received. To get your grade point average, divide the sum of total points by the sum of number of units.