Collegiate Latin
The name of the buildings where students live on a college campus, named from the latin root "dormir" to sleep.
What is a dormitory, dorm, or residence hall?
Kennesaw Junior College
What is the original name of Kennesaw State University?
A course that a student chooses to take outside of his or her major field of study. This can be in an area of interest to the student or in an area that complements the student's major.
What is an elective?
A series of events offered during the first week of classes designed to introduce students to one another and orient them to campus life.
What is Welcome Week?
Doctor
What is the title of someone who has earned either a a Doctor of Medicine degree or a doctorate in Philosophy, called a Ph.D.?
The class outline that contains the class attendance policy, grading scale, required text, professor's office hours and phone number, and important information about the course.
What is a syllabus?
1963
What is the year Kennesaw State was founded?
About $1000 more per week than those who don't go.
What is the weekly median earning difference for a person with a bachelor's degree?
More likely that your children will attend college
More likely to be an involved citizen
More likely to earn more money over a career
More likely to avoid unemployment
More likely to report higher life satisfaction/happiness
What are the outcomes to getting a bachelor's degree?
A staff member who meets individually with students to advise them about what courses to take or what their degree requirements are.
What is an academic advisor?
Approximate date, often used in history class
Circa
Dr. Horace W. Sturgis
Who was the first president of Kennesaw State University?
A series of courses that help prepare KSU students in the first two years of a degree to develop a broad set of transferable skills as well as a deep understanding of cross-cultural competency, social responsibility, and ethical leadership.
What are General Education Requirements?
A specially designed course for first year students that typically has a small number of students, a supportive and engaging instructor, and directly supports the retention of students throughout their degree programs
What is a First-year Seminar?
A major creative, research, or writing project that pushes the boundaries of the current understanding of a topic produced in the final year of a doctoral program that is reviewed by a committee of experts before the title of Ph.D. is bestowed on a student.
What is a dissertation?
What is Magna Cum Laude?
WE ARE THE OWLS AND WE BRING THE FIGHT, ALL THROUGH THE SOUTH-LAND, ALL KNOW OUR MIGHT! FROM THE MOUN-TAIN WE BRING SPI-RIT, HEART, AND VIC-TO-RY! LET’S GO OWLS! OUR MEN AND WO-MEN
What is the KSU Fight Song?
The belief that the freedom of inquiry by faculty members is essential to the mission of the university, and that scholars should have freedom to teach or communicate ideas or facts (including those that are inconvenient to external political groups or to authorities) without being targeted for repression, job loss, or imprisonment.
What is academic freedom?
Life Skills
Academic Strategies
Value of the Campus
Community Global Learning
What are the four major learning outcomes for the First-Year Seminar?
The person/office responsible for managing all students' records of official enrollment in classes and progression toward a degree. Also where you go to drop or add a class.
What is a Registrar?
Alumnus, alumna
What are Latin terms for male graduate and female graduate?
An event where new students learn from the university’s top administrators and others about the importance of a college education, some responsibilities of an educated individual, the meaning of becoming a Kennesaw State University student, and the value of a degree from Kennesaw State University
What is Kennesaw State University First-Year Convocation?
It is a style of teaching based on asking and answering questions to stimulate critical thinking and to illuminate ideas.
What is the Socratic Method?
A program of study leading toward a particular degree made up of a set of courses offered by a college within a university.
What is degree program?
The person/office that distributes financial aid monies and collects tuition and fees on a college campus.
What is a Bursar?