Admissions
Approval for a student to attend an educational institution.
What is an Admission?
Specialization in one academic discipline or field of study
What is an academic concentration or major?
A unit of measure for college work.
What is a credit?
September to June
What is an Academic Year?
Certification that a school or an instructional program meets standards.
What is Accreditation?
A member of the college faculty or staff who assists students with planning quarter or semester schedules.
What is an Advisor?
The specific courses that a student is taking or plans to take for a given semester or quarter.
What is a class schedule?
This kind of grade is given to students who are unable to complete their class before it ends.
What is an incomplete grade?
The ceremony at the end of a school year which students receive their degrees or diplomas.
What is commencement?
The land and buildings that a college or university uses for instruction student services.
What is a Campus?
If a student meets specific criteria, the college may do this to some of his or her tuition & fees.
What is a waiver?
A rank conferred by a college or university and earned by a student who has successfully completed specified courses and requirements.
What is a Degree?
Not offering credit toward a degree.
What is noncredit?
A course that must be completed (often with a certain minimum grade) or a skill that must be demonstrated before a student can enroll in a more advanced course.
What is a prerequisite?
A form of educational activity undertaken by an individual student with little to no supervision.
What is independent study?
All the information the college might keep regarding a student; it includes registration activity (enrollment, withdrawal, etc.), grades, payments, awards received, financial aid applications and award notices, and notes on disciplinary actions, as well as address, phone number, and student identification number.
What are records?
The total value of the courses a student is currently enrolled in.
What is a Credit load?
A college degree that can often be earned by following a four year instructional program. A baccalaureate institution, sometimes informally called a “four year college” is a college or university which is entitled to grant a baccalaureate or bachelor's degree.
What is a bachelor's degree?
A student who has not yet earned a bachelor's degree; also refers to the courses and instructional programs such a student enrolls in.
What is undergraduate?
An outline plan for a particular class, including textbook requirements, class meeting dates, reading assignments, examination dates, the instructor's grading standards, etc.
What is a Syllabus?
The first step in requesting admission to an institution of higher education. Usually there is a form to fill out by a certain deadline; sometimes there is an application fee to pay.
What is an application?
Any learning that happens without the students being physically present in the lesson.
What is Distance learning or distance education?
A method of determining a student's knowledge or skill level, often taken to find his or her best placement or starting level in a series of courses in English, math, or reading.
What is an assessment?
An agreement between high schools or colleges or between community/technical colleges and baccalaureate institutions, designed to make it easy for students to move from one educational level to the next without any gaps or repetition in their coursework.
What is an articulation?
A diploma earned after successfully completing a required program of study in a community or technical college. It typically requires 60 or more credits and takes at least two years of full-time study.
What is an associate degree?