Pertinent Places
A place where you can find academic support and community while grabbing some free snacks.
What is The Center for Academic Equity?
A student enrolled in fewer credit hours (and courses) in a given term than the college considers full-time. This status typically affects things such as financial aid.
What is a part-time student?
This is the pastry of Mardi Gras.
What is King Cake?
This is a monthly event where we gather first-gen students, faculty, and staff together to share food and build community and usually happens on a Friday.
What is First-Gen Fridays?
This is when a student takes classes at a university and lives in a different country for a semester or the summer.
What is study abroad?
The office that can help you figure out how to afford to go to Tulane through institutional and non-institutional aid.
What is Financial Aid?
The days and times that college faculty set aside to meet with students enrolled in their classes. Traditionally these take place in the instructor’s office (not in the classroom).
What are a professor's office hours?
This is what Mardi Gras means in English.
What is Fat Tuesday?
This is the official student organization for first-generation college students and their allies.
What is the First TU College Krewe?
The position of a student or trainee who works in an organization, sometimes without pay, in order to gain work experience.
What is an internship?
An office located in the Mussafer Building that can help you figure out what classes you need to take and help you register.
What is Academic Advising?
A major form of academic dishonesty that occurs when a student uses the words of another person without attribution, passing them off as their own, or using their own work again for a different assignment.
What is plagiarism?
These are the two largest parades of Mardi Gras.
What are Endymion and Bacchus?
This is an event where we have donuts and coffee available in the mornings as a grab-and-go snack or as something to munch on while meeting other first-gen folk.
What is Coffee & Conversations?
This is an experience where a student works in a lab or study usually with the supervision and guidance of a professor.
What is a research fellowship?
An office that is dedicated to helping you be successful personally and academically here at Tulane and beyond.
What is Student Success?
A temporary grade that faculty can award a student who, for reasons outside his or her control (illness, death in family, etc.) cannot complete all coursework and assignments in a given term.
What is an incomplete grade (I, U/I, etc.)?
This parade's most sought-after throws are shoes.
What is Muses?
This is a nationally recognized holiday and celebratory day that happens on Nov. 8th.
What is the First-Generation College Celebration Day?
This is a fund at Tulane that can help fund your summer academic-related** experiences.
What is the CAE Summer Grant Fund?
The office you can go to to pay your tuition and fees, better understand your bill, talk about payment plans with, and get your refund disbursement from.
What is Accounts Receivable?
It is a way of adjusting grades so that most students get average scores (like a B or C), while fewer students get very high (A) or very low (F) grades. It’s shaped like a _____, with most grades in the middle and fewer at the top and bottom.
What is a bell curve in grading?
The most important safety tip for Mardi Gras.
What is "always travel in groups"?
She is a billionaire, American talk show host, television producer, actress, author, media proprietor, and a first-generation college student.
Who is Oprah Winfrey?
This is a funding application at Tulane that can award up to $9,000* depending on your summer academic-related** experience.
What is the Joint Summer Funding Application?