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Box 3968 Atlanta, GA 30303 Phone: 404-413-1620 Fax: 404-413-162 NEWS April 6, 2021 WWW.GEORGIASTATESIGNAL.COM/NEWS Students on academic exclusion must appeal the exclusion, and with enough documentation, attempt to prove PHOTO BY MATT SICILIANO-SALAZAR | THE SIGNAL why Georgia State should allow them to re-enroll.. Georgia State student on academic exclusion files appeal Kevin Hazrati cites financial insecurity and family deaths in fight to re-enroll JADA JONES Arts & Living Editor ccording to the U.S. Department of Education, 43% of learning and the effects the pandemic had on his personal life, but right direction. After trying to secure an appointment with an full-time undergraduate students are employed. Many that alone was not enough. exploratory advisor to discuss the appeals, the advisement office A students work a full-time job and take a full course “I submitted my first appeal, [and] I thought it’d be sufficient canceled his appointment. load to pay their tuition and graduate on time. enough to talk about how it’s kind of been hard for everyone lately “I made an appointment saying, ‘I need to speak with an But some of those students end up getting left behind due to with COVID and everything like that,” he said. exploratory advisor and follow up about my second appeal,’” he their jobs or personal emergencies taking up studying time; that is Now, Hazrati awaits the decision on his second appeal, and this said. “Then I got an email saying, ‘The appointment is not needed; what happened to Kevin Hazrati. appeal will make or break his academic career at Georgia State. here’s the appeal form for the second appeal,’ and that was it. I just Hazrati is a senior psychology major at Georgia State, and he’s The process of re-enrolling at Georgia State after being on didn’t know exactly what to do after that.” in a situation most students do their absolute best to avoid: he’s on academic exclusion is called academic renewal, and it’s a strenuous Hazrati took to resources on the internet to help him complete academic exclusion. process. When a student is on academic exclusion and the his appeals, using the information available on the Dean of Hazrati began his journey at Georgia State in 2015 as a university denies a student’s appeal, that student cannot re-enroll at Students and the Office of the Provost’s websites and social media computer science major but realized that was not the path he Georgia State for at least five years. If that student becomes eligible sites like Reddit. wanted to take. After changing his major, he took a few semesters for academic renewal and wants to return to Georgia State, they Georgia State did not make any exceptions or revisions to off here and there, as life’s challenges got in the way of pursuing his cannot attend another university within those five years. its academic exclusion or appeal policies to accommodate the degree, and by the start of 2020’s spring semester, Hazrati wound Hazrati’s second appeal is a more personal one. He said that pandemic or its effects on students. Aside from not being able to up on academic probation. Georgia State wants the details of his personal life and how those talk the process out with anyone in person, the policies equate the But students lucky enough to not pay their way through college, events affected his academia. After submitting an account of his struggles students face during the pandemic to the struggles they or those who can successfully balance work and school, sometimes declining mental health, struggles with financial insecurity and faced pre-pandemic.