Academic
A professional OR faculty member assigned to advise students individually on selection of courses and related curriculum problems.
Academic Advisor
Where professionally-trained counselors assist students in solving personal, social, career, and academic problems.
Counseling Center
The name of the website used by CHC students to search for jobs on and off campus
Handshake
The title for the highest ranking person in charge of running the college or university
President
Distributed the first week of class, this document tells the student when the readings, papers, are due during the semester or quarter
Syllabus
This is a warning to students that his or her academic progress is unsatisfactory. In some colleges, there are several degrees of academic this upon which a student may be placed.
ACADEMIC PROBATION
Where students go for treatment of minor illnesses and injuries. There are nurse practitioners and doctors on staff who can assist with your health problems.
Health Services
Campus jobs offered to students who have received this type of funding from the federal government as part of their financial aid package
Federal Work Study
This person evaluates and regulates the student’s transcript, records, grades, classes.
Registrar
A student receives this degree once completing his or her undergraduate studies.
Bachelors Degree
What a student receives when completing a college course. They are based on the number of hours spent in a class. A full-time student will earn about 30 of these each year.
Credits
An organization composed of students for governance of students clubs and resources. This the voice for the student body.
Student Government Association
Work experience that contributes to the students major. A professor or faculty member monitors the process. A student usually is required to write a paper or take a test on the experience, but the student is not paid for the work he or she performs.
Internship
Senior academic officer of the college. At Chestnut Hill College, this person is in charge of all things academic
Vice President for Academic Affairs
What a student receives when completing a college course. These are based on the amount of hours spent in a class. A full-time student will earn about 31 each year.
Credit
During this period in the first week of a semester the student is allowed to switch courses he or she is not satisfied with and be placed in another course
Drop/ Add
The head of the athletic department. This person coordinates all athletic programs.
Athletic Director
A work program in which a student (usually a junior or senior) receives a regular salary and college credit. May typically last 6 months or more
Co-op
The poeple in this office oversee reasonable accommodations for documented disabilities in accordance with Section 504 of the Rehabilitation Act of 1973, the ADA of 1990, and the ADAAA of 2008. In addition, they provide subject tutoring, literacy tutoring, and other kinds of academic support services.
Center for Accessibility and Learning Services (CALS)
A specialized field of study that a student chooses to pursue through his or her college career.
Major
A serious offense. The act of stealing another person’s words or ideas and using them as one’s own. If caught the offender will be expelled from college or placed on academic probation.
Plagiarism
A program is typically at the beginning of the semester and designed to assist all new students in adjusting to their new college surroundings
Orientation
The department at CHC in charge of assisting students to find internships, co-ops and jobs
Career Development
The people in charge of dormitory life and residential living. The head of the dorm, has a staff which includes Resident Advisors (RA), who are students who enforce dorm rules and regulations. The staff is also there to help the students with any problem that can occur on a college campus.
Resident Life Staff
Tests given half way through the semester to see how the student is progressing.
Mid-terms