General Education
3 classes every Ramapo student must take
What are Critical Reading and Writing 2, Social Science Inquiry, and Studies in the Arts and Humanities?
Comprehensive list of Ramapo's academic programs (majors, minors, concentrations, etc.), curriculum, and policies
What is the College Catalog?
Minimum number of credits required to graduate
What is 128?
Minimum GPA required to be in good academic standing
What is 2.0?
Where students can go to get 1-on-1 writing assistance; also houses writing and study skill workshops
What is the Center for Reading and Writing?
Gen ed category that can be satisfied by foreign language classes
What is Global Awareness?
Blueprint that organizes degree requirements sequentially based on major
What is a Four Year Plan?
Minimum grade acceptable for transfer credits
What is C?
Maximum number of credits a student can take in a semester without receiving a credit overload
What is 18?
Office that provides reasonable accommodations to students with disabilities
What is the Office of Specialized Serviced (OSS)?
Gen ed requirements that students must take placement tests for
What are Critical Reading and Writing and Quantitative Reasoning?
Program used to schedule appointments and track/outreach students based on major, flags, holds, etc.
What is Connect?
Maximum amount of credits a student can have before becoming ineligible for CLEP and off-campus study at a 2-year college
What is 70?
Term for removing a class from a student's schedule after the first week of the semester
What is withdraw?
Office that offers free and confidential services, including short-term individual counseling, drop-in hours, crisis intervention, psychiatric services, Substance Use Disorders assessment/treatment and referrals to long-term therapy in the community
What is the Counseling Center?
Subcategories of the distribution gen ed requirement
What are Culture & Creativity, Systems Sustainability & Society, and Values & Ethics?
Program used to track progress toward degree completion (degree audit) and create plans by semester
What is U.Achieve?
Maximum amount of credits a student can have before becoming ineligible for off-campus study at a 4-year college
What is 96?
Plagiarism violates this policy
What is the Academic Integrity policy?
Location of the Math and Science Tutoring Center
What is G131?
Gen ed requirements with classes specific to the College Honors Program
What are First Year Seminar, Social Science Inquiry, Studies in the Arts and Humanities, Global Awareness, and Values and Ethics?
Webpage that houses advisement resources including Web Self-Service and U.Achieve tutorials
What is MyAdvisor/MyAdvisees?
Allows students to repeat a failed class and replace the F grade in their GPA calculation with the repeated grade; Students may use up to 4 times
What is the Repeat Course policy?
Protects students privacy by limiting access to educational information and records-- much to some parents' dismay
What is The Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act (FERPA)?
Provides resources and assists students who experience food insecurity, are in need of supplemental funding resources, and/or are facing homelessness
What is the We Care Program?