Terms A - E
The email you will receive when you complete your FAFSA application.
What is the Award Letter?
This acronym stands for a federal law that protects the privacy of student education records.
What is FERPA? (Federal Education Rights and Privacy Act)
The average of grades in every college level course the student has taken regardless of institution.
What is the Life Scholarship GPA?
A course that is required before another course can be taken.
What is a Prerequisite?
In the 300 and 400 range, usually taken by juniors and seniors to fulfill degree requirements in their major or minor.
What are Upper Division Courses?
The office that bills students for tuition housing and other fees.
What is the Bursar's Office?
The requirements that every student has to take to earn a bachelor’s degree, a designated group of foundation courses in disciplinary area.
What are General Education Requirements?
A short, intense semester consisting of four weeks during which students attend a single class three or more hours every day
What is Maymester?
The cumulative points for each credit hour that are used to calculate GPA. A=4 points, B+= 3.5 points, B=3 points, C+= 2.5 points, C=2 points, D+=1.5 points and a D=1 point.
What are Quality Points?
Annual publication outlining various policies, procedures, academic programs, and course descriptions.
What is the University Bulletin?
A course that must be taken at the same time as another course.
What is a co-requisite?
These keep you from registering for classes can be placed on your account for a variety of reasons including unpaid fees, parking tickets or student conduct infractions.
What are Holds?
Also referred to as your USCB ID, USCB Username, and Network Username.
What is the Network ID?
The person and office responsible for maintaining student records, administering policies and procedures, maintaining class schedules and course enrollment information.
Who is the Registrar?
The student’s decision to remove themselves from a class after the drop/add period is over.
What is Withdrawal?
The online degree audit system used to record a student’s progress in satisfying degree requirements.
What is DegreeWorks?
Financial assistance that does not have to be paid back.
What is a Grant?
A secondary field of study that requires fewer hours. Students do not earn a degree in their minor, but it is noted on their transcript.
What is a minor?
An opportunity to pursue academic studies in a foreign country for a semester or a year.
What is Study Abroad?
A federal program that provides jobs for students in financial need to help pay for their expenses. These jobs are usually on campus and part of a student’s financial aid package.
What is Work Study?
This type of learning can include activities such as internships, campus leadership opportunities, service learning in the community, undergraduate research, study abroad and/or student teaching.
What is Experiential Learning?
A group formed to recognize scholarship and achievement in academics.
What is an Honor Society?
A process for adding a course to a student’s schedule after the Drop/Add period has closed. Requires the signatures of the Instructor for the course, Financial Aid, and Bursar.
What is Late Add?
An opportunity to pursue academic studies in a foreign country for a semester or a year.
What is a Transcript?
The act of using someone else’s work, ideas, thoughts or language and representing it as your own by failing to give credit to the original author.
What is Plagarism?