Academics

Academic Load

The number of credit hours attempted determines a student’s classification as either full-time or part-time. Any student receiving financial aid should contact the Enrollment Service / Financial Aid Office to verify the definition of “full time” according to LDCC Financial Aid guidelines.

Academic Standing

Academic Standing is determined by the student’s institutional academic record. There are two categories of academic status: Academic Probation and Good Standing. Louisiana Delta Community College (LDCC) will inform students of any changes in their academic status at the end of a completed semester or term. Students have the responsibility to know and understand the ramifications of their academic standing prior to the beginning of the next enrollment period. Academic Status is applicable to credit earned at LDCC. Only institutional hours are used when determining academic status.

Good Standing

Students must earn and maintain a 2.00 Adjusted Cumulative grade point average in order to be considered in good standing.

Academic Probation

Students will be placed on Academic Probation whenever their adjusted cumulative grade point averages falls below a 2.00 and grade point average hours are 15 or more.

Once an adjusted cumulative grade point average of 2.00 or higher is achieved, a student will be removed from Academic Probation and the record will reflect Good Standing status.

Academic Status for Visiting Students

LDCC does not implement academic status for visiting students since academic standing should be enforced at the student’s home institution.

Academic Seminar Exemption

A transfer student can be considered for exemption from Academic Seminar if one or more of the following criteria are met. If the student:

• Possesses an earned degree from another college or university 

• Has transferred 30 or more credit hours of college-level work and has a cumulative GPA of 2.0 or higher

• Has successfully completed an equivalent course from another college or university

Gateway English and Math Co-requisite Support and Exemption Criteria

Louisiana Delta Community College is committed to students' success in the foundational gateway areas of English Composition and core Mathematics. LDCC is an open-admission institute of higher education and does not employ traditional developmental or remedial course(s) as pre-requisites to students' enrollment in gateway English and Math courses. Instead, all students may enroll in the English and Math gateway courses specific to the declared program of study. Students enrolled in these gateway courses are concurrently enrolled in a subject-specific support course unless they meet the criteria for exemption.

Students pursuing the gateway ENGL 101 English Composition I are exempt from concurrent enrollment in ENGL 100 College Writing Success if the following proficiency standards are satisfied: ACT English subscore 18 and greater; SAT English subscore 500 and greater; Accuplacer Next-Generation (NG) Writing score 250 and greater.

Students pursuing the gateway core Mathematics course specific to the declared program of study are exempt from concurrent enrollment in MATH 100 College Algebra Success if the following proficiency standards are satisfied: ACT Math subscore 19 and greater; SAT Math subscore 510 and greater; Accuplacer Next-Generation (NG) Quantitative Reasoning, Algebra, and Statistics (QRAS) score 250 and greater.

Intellectual Property

Louisiana Delta Community College follows LCTCS Policy 1.042 and LDCC Policy AA_114. The policies provide protections and incentives to encourage the development of new knowledge and its transfer for the public benefit. LDCC is committed to assist faculty and other researchers in properly disclosing their scholarly work, in complying with applicable laws and formal agreements, and in gaining the protections available under the United States laws governing patents, copyrights, trademarks, and other appropriate provisions.

Requesting Official Transcripts

All current and previous students of Delta or NELTC can request their official college or GED/HiSET transcript through the College website, https://www.ladelta.edu/academics/student-resources/request-a-transcript

Contact the campus you attended if you have any questions.