Getting In
What is the 1st step in requesting admission to an institution of higher education?
What is an application?
What is usually referred to as the September-June school year (in some cases it refers to the entire year)?
What is academic year?
What are courses or instructional programs which do not require extensive homework or examinations and which do not offer college credit?
What is "non-credit"?
What is a specialization in one academic discipline or field of study?
What is an "academic concentration or major"?
What is 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?
What is the approval for a student to attend an educational institution (i.e. usually involves an application form and may require transcripts or other supporting documents)?
What is "admission"?
What is a temporary grade given to a student who is doing satisfactory work but is forced by illness or other emergency to miss an exam or a major assignment. The instructor and student arrange how and when the student will complete the work and have the "I" changed to a final letter grade.
What is "Incomplete Grade"?
What is:
A publication listing detailed course and section information (days, times, room numbers, etc.) for a specific semester or quarter +/or
The specific courses that an individual student is taking or plans to take for a given semester or quarter?
What is class schedule?
What is a diploma earned after successfully completing a required program of study in a community or technical college (typically requires 60 or more credits and takes at least two years of full-time study)?
What is Associate's Degree?
What is 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 syllabus?
Who is 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?
What is a very general term used in many ways in a college or university (i.e. The courses that an individual student plans to take ("the academic advisors can help you plan your program each year")?
What is program?
What is often means the same as class?
(Note: Can also mean a planned sequence of instruction in a particular topic; may include class meetings, lectures, readings, demonstrations, exercises, assignments, examinations, etc.; offered repeatedly to different groups of students.)
What is course?
What is a college degree which 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?
What refers to 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?
What is waiving a right or a claim is to voluntarily give it up?
Ex. If a student meets specific criteria, the college may waive some of his or her tuition & fees (that is, some of the money owed to the college will be forgiven); orif a student demonstrates certain knowledge and abilities, the college may waive a course prerequisite (that is, allow the student to take the class even though he or she hasn't completed the listed requirements for it).
What is waiver?
What is instruction which is not time- or place-specific; can include correspondence courses, televised or videotaped lectures, online courses (internet and e-mail), etc.?
What is Distance Learning?
What is a unit of measure for college work. Generally speaking, one credit hour represents one hour of classroom attendance each week for one term, plus the study time, homework, etc. that go along with it.
What is Credit?
What is a rank conferred by a college or university and earned by a student who has successfully completed specified courses and requirements (compare with certificate, which usually requires less time and coursework).
What is a "degree"?
What is 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 Prerequisite?
What is a formal agreement between HS's and colleges 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 "articulation"?
What is an arrangement that allows a student to earn college credit through individual study and research, usually planned with and supervised by a faculty member?
What is Independent Study?
What is the total credit value of the courses a student is currently enrolled in?
What is credit load?
What are the requirements for a doctorate degree?
Obtain a Bachelor's degree
Meet admission requirements
complete coursework and exams (60-120 hours)
What is a member of the college faculty or staff who assists students with planning quarter or semester schedules as well as their overall programs of study?
What is an Advisor?