Dean’s List and Dean’s Student-Athlete Awards Criterion

A Dean’s List is an academic award, or notation, used to recognize the level of high scholarship demonstrated by students in a college or university. It is often synonymous with honour roll and honour list, but should not be confused with honours degrees.

The Dean’s List and the Dean’s Student-Athlete Award must be separate awards because:

1. Not all the students enrolled in the Faculty of Sport academic programmes are athletes (less than 20% in Sport Sciences at Cave Hill Campus).
2. About 50% of the student-athletes are enrolled in other academic programmes (outside of the faculty of Sport).
3. Awardees from the Dean’s Student-Athlete Award can be automatically entered for the Vice Chancellor Sportsperson of the year award.

The Dean’s List for the Faculty of Sport is an academic award assigned to the top students earning a (degree / cumulative) GPA 3.6 or above on the 4.3 scale. Full-time students will be considered per semester (minimum of 12 credit hours/semester) or part-time students will be considered annually (minimum of 12 credit hours/year). Additionally, no GPA for an individual course can be below (B) 3.0, F (Fail), FA (Fail Absent), FE (Fail Exam), I (Incomplete).

The Dean’s Student-Athlete Award for the Faculty of Sport is an academic and performance award assigned to elite student-athletes earning a GPA of 3.0 or above on the 4.3 scale. Full-time students will be considered per semester (minimum of 12 credit hours/semester) or part-time students will be considered annually (minimum of 12 credit hours/year), no GPA for an individual course can be below (C+) 2.3, F (Fail), FA (Fail Absent), FE (Fail, Exam), I (Incomplete). Additionally, the student’s athletic performance must be exemplary at the national, regional or international level. Examples of this include:

1. Selection to a national or regional team.
2. Setting a new national, regional, or international record.
3. Outstanding national, regional or international performance.