Submit an Academic Petition or Appeal

Petition Letter: Throughout the last year and a half I have had a lot going on that has led me to this. Last year I applied to drop my Winter courses late as my mother and grandmother where having major health problems and I needed to go home and with everything going on I was having a hard time keeping up in my courses. During this time I was enrolled in 2 summer courses that I had thought I had dropped when I dropped my winter courses. During the summer I was towards the end of an abusive relationship and during this time he and I had shared a phone plan and he stopped paying his portion resulting in both our phones being turned off, he also finically abused me and I didn't have a way to pay for anything and after he made me leave his home I was living in my car with no access to my phone and there for no access to ONQ, SOLUS, or outlook. During this time I was not partaking in my summer courses and had no way of knowing I was still enrolled in them. It was until I moved in with a friend (late July) and had some emergency financial aid that I could regain access to my phone and was able to log back in. At this time it was brought to my attention that I had been enrolled in those courses the whole time and there was a hold placed on my account and I was unable to enrol in fall term courses. I then met with a CARE coordinator through the school as well as multiple advisors to get the situation sorted. First I appealed to drop the summer courses late, which took about 3 weeks to get approved; and then I waiting for supporting documentation from the people who had been helping me which took about a week or two; I then appealed for a tuition refund to then have the hold taken off my account which again took a few weeks and I just heard back that it had been approved yesterday (September 18th). I then reached out to an academic advisor who had recommended if I wanted to take fall courses that I reach out to the professors of the courses I wanted to take and submit this appeal which I have done. I am looking to take fall courses because I would like to get a handle on the situation now that my families medical problems are not so severe and now that I am out of my abusive relationship. Since then I have found out I am pregnant and my goal is to finish my degree as I wasn't far off before and be able to have that done and get a job moving forward to provide for my baby. I have also moved home and switched to taking only 3 courses at a time to lighten my course load and ease back into it, as well as am taking online courses which will give me the time and space to focus on my academics and catching up on these courses even though we are a couple weeks into the term.