All TRHLP Scholars are required to attend mandatory events for each semester. These include, but are not limited to: monthly all-class meetings, donor luncheons, Freshman Retreat, Homecoming Parade, and other events deemed mandatory by the Director. These events will have a sign-in sheet. Students who cannot attend a mandatory event need to inform the Director or Office Manager. Additionally, each semester all students must attend three DSU co-curricular events and write a response to them. Acceptable co-curriculars include, but are not limited to: speakers on campus, Global Table, sessions at the NCHC conference, sessions at the TR Symposium. The focus of the co-curriculars should be educational and not mainly for entertainment purposes. Athletic, musical, and theatrical events do not count as co-curriculars. Responses should answer the following questions for each event attended:
The three response essays will be due at the same time as the TRHLP Semester Update form at the end of each semester, but these documents can be submitted earlier. The TRHLP office prefers electronic submissions. Electronic submissions can be sent to Mari Kovash at Marietta.kovash@dickinsonstate.edu.
What was the name/title of the event
Who spoke? What was said?
What was the most important lesson you learned? Please explain.
- If a student does not have satisfactory participation for a semester, they will be placed on participation warning status for the following semester. If the student does not have satisfactory participation after the warning semester, they will be placed on participation probation. If after the probationary semester, the student’s participation is still not satisfactory, they will forfeit the scholarship beginning the next semester. Please note this could mean revocation of the scholarship in the middle of the school year. A student will be placed on participation probation only once during their time in the program. Instead of being placed on participation probation for a second time, the student will forfeit the scholarship.
- Appeal of this removal or requests for waiver of this requirement because of special circumstances must be submitted in writing to and received by the TRHLP Director within 10 working days of student receipt of either a letter of probation or of non-renewal.
- Being placed on both academic and participation probation at the same time indicates a lack of suitability for continuance in the TRHLP and will also result in immediate removal. Please note this could mean revocation of the scholarship in the middle of the school year. See above for information about academic requirements.
- Students removed from the TRHLP may not apply for re-admission to the program or the scholarship.
- Mandatory Events: When attending mandatory events, students must sign in or do what is necessary to verify attendance. If a student is not in attendance and another student signs in for them, both parties will be immediately placed on probation. If one or both parties are already on probation, they will be removed from the TRHLP.
- Mandatory All-Class Meetings: In the event a TRHLP Scholar misses a mandatory monthly class meeting, they should ask their TREC representative for an update within 7 days.
- Update Forms: Students must complete the online TRHLP Update Form and submit it electronically to the TRHLP Office each semester by the deadline established in the announcement email. This form supplies an array of important data used to improve the program and facilitate timely graduation and communication.