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A

Abbreviations, Acronyms, and Codes

Abbreviations, Course

Absence from Class

Absence from Examinations

Academic Administrative Policies and Procedures Manual

Academic Advising

Academic Advising Centers: Campuses Other than University Park

Academic Advising Centers: University Park

Academic Assistance Programs (Educational Equity)

Academic Background and Placements

Academic Calendar

Academic Classification of Students and Adviser Assignment

Academic Classification of Students by Semester

Academic Drop Action (Unsatisfactory Scholarship)

Academic/Enrollment Verification

Academic Entrance and Retention Requirements for Majors

Academic Integrity

Academic Plans (Recommended)

Academic Reinstatement

Academic Renewal

Academic Verification, Understanding a Transcript/

Academic Warning (Unsatisfactory Scholarship)

Access Accounts, (Penn State)

Accessibility (Resources for Students with Disabilities)

Add/Drop

Adding Courses

Administrative Course Cancellation

Administrative Enrollment Controls for Baccalaureate Degree Majors

Administrative Information Services (AIS), Integrated Student Information System (ISIS)

Administrative Offices for Undergraduate Education

Admission Requirement (Carnegie Units)

Admission Requirement, World Language

Admission to Major (Entrance to and Changes in College/Major)

Admissions, Undergraduate

Adult Students, Continuing Education (all campuses)

Adult Students, Continuing Education (University Park)

Advance Registration (Registration)

Advanced Placement (AP) Program of the College Board

Advanced Standing

Adviser Assignment and Academic Classification of Students

Advising

Advising @ PSU

Advising Audit (Degree Audit)

Advising Centers, Academic: Campuses Other than University Park

Advising Centers, Academic: University Park

Advising Council (University)

Advising Select Directory

Appeal of Academic Policies and Procedures (Petitions for Exceptions to Academic Policies and Procedures)

Appointment (Class Meeting Times)

Appropriate Deans' Offices

Armed Services, Credit for Educational Experiences

Associate Deans for Undergraduate Studies

Athletes, Morgan Academic Support Center

Attendance in Class

Audit of Unfulfilled Requirements (Degree Audit)

Auditing a Course (AU)

B

Baccalaureate "Bachelor's" Degrees (e.g., B.A., B.S., B.PH.)

B.A. Degree Requirements

Basic Skills Courses, Scheduling: English

Basic Skills Courses, Scheduling: Quantification

Blended Learning (Web/Online Course Work)

Bursar's Office

C

C-Grade Requirement

Calendar of Religious Holy Days

Calendar, Academic

CAMP (College Assistance Migrant Program)

Campus Advising Centers

Campus, Change of

Campus Engagement Plan

Campus, Multi-Campus Registration

Cancellation of a Course

Cancellation of Registration

Career Services

Carnegie Units

Certificate Minors

Certification, Foreign Language Proficiency

Certification Programs for Teachers, Entrance Criteria

Change of Campus

Change of College/Major

Cheating

Chemistry (Scheduling Beginning Courses)

Class Attendance

Class Meeting Times

Class Rank

Classification, Semester

Classification of Undergraduate Students

Classroom Problems, Resolution of

Codes, Abbreviations, and Acronyms

College Assistance Migrant Program (CAMP)

College Information (by advising topic)

College-Level Examination Program (CLEP) of the College Entrance Examination Board

College Rank

Colleges, Exploring

Computer Access Accounts (Penn State)

Computer Services

Concurrent Majors Program

Confidentiality

Confirmation of Registration

Conflict of Examinations

Continuing Education

Continuing Education for Adult Students (all campuses)

Continuing Education for Adult Students (University Park)

Controlled Courses

Controlled Majors: Academic Entrance and Retention Requirements

Controlled Majors: Administrative Enrollment Controls

Controlled Majors: Entrance Criteria for Teacher Certification

Corrected Grade: Grade Change

Corrected Grade: Grade Mediation and Adjudication

Correspondence Study (World Campus)

Counseling and Psychological Services (CAPS)

Course Abbreviations

Course Cancellation, Administrative

Course Delivery Systems

Course, Disenrollment from

Course Drop/Add

Course Drop/Add: Dropping Down in a Sequence of Courses

Course Information

Course Numbering System

Course Repeat

Course Selection (Schedule Preparation)

Course Selection (Scheduling Planning Resources)

Course Substitution (Exceptions to Degree Requirements)

Course Suffixes

Courses, Part-Semester

Courses with C-Grade Requirement

Credit Acquisition Through Attendance at Some Foreign Secondary Schools and Participation in the International Baccalaureate Program

Credit by Examination

Credit by Portfolio Assessment

Credit by Transfer from Other Institutions

Credit by Validation

Credit/Credit Load

Credit/Credit Load: Summer Sessions

Credit for Educational Experiences in the Armed Services

Credit for Noncollegiate Experience

Credit for Training Programs in Noncollegiate Organizations

Credit Overload

Credits Earned (Semester Classification)

Cross-Listed Courses

Cultural Diversity (including GI and US IL requirements)

Cumulative Credits (Defined)

Cumulative Grade-Point Average

D

Deadlines

Deans, Associate ("Appropriate")

Dean's List

Deferred Grade (DF)

Deficiency, Grade-Point

Degree Audit

Degree, Baccalaureate

Degree Candidates (Defined)

Degree Requirements

Delivery Systems, Course

Departmentally Controlled Courses, Scheduling

Directory, Advising Select

Disabilities, Resources for Students with

Disciplinary Report

Disciplinary Withdrawal

Discrimination Complaints

Disenrollment from a College or Major (Drops by Colleges)

Disenrollment from a Course

Dishonesty (Academic Integrity)

Distance Education (World Campus)

Distinction, Graduation with

Diversity Requirement

Division of Undergraduate Studies (DUS)

Double Majors (Concurrent Majors Program)

Drop Action (Enrollment Policies): Provisional and Nondegree

Drop Action (Unsatisfactory Scholarship)

Drop/Add

Dropping Courses

Dropping Down in a Sequence of Courses

Drops by Colleges, Failure to Meet Retention Standards

Dual Degrees (Concurrent Majors Program)

DUS (Division of Undergraduate Studies)

E

Early Progress Report

Education Abroad

Education, Entrance Criteria for Teacher Certification

Educational Planning Resources (Schedule Planning Resources

eISIS

eLion

Emergencies, Class Absence

Engagement Plans, First-Year; First-Year Seminars

English as a Second Language (ESL)

English Courses (Scheduling First-Year Writing Courses)

Enrichment Course Taker (Nondegree-Regular)

Enrollment/Academic Verification

Enrollment Controls for Baccalaureate Degree Majors

Entrance and Retention Requirements, Academic

Entrance to a College/Major

eTesting

Examinations

Examinations: Absence

Examinations: Advanced Placement Program (AP) of the College Board

Examinations: College-Level Examination Program (CLEP) of the College Entrance Examination Board

Examinations: Conflict of

Examinations: Credit by Examination

Examinations: For Failure Elimination

Examinations: Penn State Placement Tests (English, Mathematics, Chemistry)

Exceptions to Degree Requirements (Course Substitution)

Exercise and Sport Activities (ESACT): Credit by Participation in Varsity Sports

Exercise and Sport Activities (ESACT): Credit for Basic Training in the Armed Services

Exploring Majors

F

F-Grade, Exam to Eliminate

Faculty Senate Office

Faculty Senate Policies

Failure, Exam to Eliminate

Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act, FERPA (Confidentiality)

Fellowships Office

FERPA (Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act)

Final Exams (Examinations)

Financial Aid

First-Year Seminars, First-Year Engagement Plans

FTCAP (New Student Orientation, NSO)

"Flunking Out" (Unsatisfactory Scholarship)

Foreign Language Proficiency Certification

Foreign (World) Language Admission Requirement

Foreign (World) Language Requirements in University Park Majors Listed by College

Foreign (World) Language, Scheduling Courses

Foreign (World) Language, Substitution for General Education

Foreign (World) Language Tutoring Center (Penn State Learning)

Forms (student)

Four-Hundred- and Five-Hundred-Level Courses, Scheduling

Full-Time Credit Load

G

General Education

Global Education and Involvement (Think Global)

General Education Worksheet

Global Programs (Education Abroad)

"Good Academic Standing"

Grade Change: Corrected Grade

Grade Change: Grade Mediation and Adjudication

Grade Change: Retroactive

Grade Mediation and Adjudication

Grade-Point Average

Grade-Point Average, Target (Calculation for Goal Setting)

Grade-Point Deficiency

Grade Report and Transcript Symbols

Grades, Accessing

Grades and Grade-Point Average

Graduate Courses

Graduate/Undergraduate Degree Programs, Integrated

Graduation Procedures

Graduation Requirements

Graduation with Distinction/Graduation with Honors

Guided Study Groups

H

Handicapped Students (Resources for Students with Disabilities)

Health Professions Matrix

High School Units

Holds on Student Registration and Records

Holy Days

Honor Societies

Honors, Graduation with/Graduation with Distinction

Honors Program, Schreyer Honors College

Hybrid (Web/Online Course Work)

I

Identification Cards (id+ card)

Incomplete (No Grade)

Incomplete Registration

Independent Learning (World Campus)

Information, Penn State Phone Numbers

Information Technology Services

Integrated Undergraduate/Graduate Degree Programs

Integrity (Academic Integrity)

Intercultural and International Competence (including US IL requirement)

International Baccalaureate Program

International Cultures Requirement

International Education and Involvement (Think Global)

International Education Programs (Education Abroad)

Internships

ISIS (Integrated Student Information System)

iStudy for Success

L

Laboratory Science Requirement

Language, (World) Admission Requirement

Language (World), Requirements in University Park Majors Listed by College

Language (World), Scheduling Courses

Language (World), Substitution for General Education

Language (World) Tutoring Center

Late Course Add

Late Course Drop

Late Registration

Late-Starting Courses

Law (Pre-Law Advising)

Learning Disabilities, Services Available for Students

LEAP

Leave of Absence

M

Major, Change of

Major Information (advising topics by college)

Majors, Academic Entrance/Retention Requirements for

Majors, Administrative Enrollment Controls for

Majors, Exploring

Math Center (Penn State Learning)

Mathematics Courses, Advising Recommendations for Scheduling

Maymester (Summer Sessions)

Medical Withdrawal

Midsemester Evaluation Report (Early Progress Report)

Military, Credit for Educational Experiences

Military Leave of Absence

Military Re-enrollment

Military Withdrawal

Minors for Baccalaureate Candidates

Missed Classes

Morgan Academic Support Center for Student-Athletes

Multicultural Resource Center (MRC)

Multiple-Campus Registration

Multiple Majors (Concurrent Majors Program)

N

New Student Orientation (NSO)

No Grade (NG)

Nondegree Student (Classification Of Undergraduate Students and Adviser Assignment)
   Academic Standards
   Dual-Enrolled High School
   Enrichment Course Taker
   Evaluation of Transfer Credits
   Graduate Student
   Late Drop Policy
   Petition Submission

O

Online Student Progress Report

Online/Web Course Work

Orientation, New Student (NSO)

Other Cultures Courses

Overload, Credit (Credit Load)

Overload, Credit (Schedule Adjustment)

P

Part-Semester Courses

Part-Time Credit Load

Pass/Fail (Satisfactory/Unsatisfactory Grading System)

Penn State Learning

Pennsylvania College of Technology

Petitions for Exceptions to Academic Policies and Procedures

Physical Education: Credit by Participation in Varsity Sports

Physical Education: Credit for Basic Training in the Armed Services

Placement Tests (Mathematics and Chemistry)

Placements, Academic Background

Policies, Faculty Senate

Pools for Entrance to Major

Poor Scholarship

Portfolio Assessment, Credit by

Pre-Law Advising

Procedures, University Academic Administrative

Proficiency Examination, (Credit by Examination)

Proficiency Certification, Foreign Language

Profile of Academic Abilities (Academic Background and Placements)

Program Year

Progress Report (Early Progress Report)

Proof of Student Status

Provisional Student (Classification of Undergraduate Students and Adviser Assignment)
   Academic Standards
   Late Drop Policy
   Petition Submission
   Re-entry
   Transfer Credit Evaluation

Q

Quantification Courses, Scheduling

R

Rank in Class/College

Readmission (Re-enrollment)

Recommendations and References

Recommended Academic Plans

Records, Confidentiality of Student

Re-enrollment

Re-entry of Provisional Students

Registered Status

Registrar's Office

Registration

Registration Cancellation

Registration Confirmation

Registration Errors, Correcting

Registration Holds

Registration, Multiple-Campus

Registration Schedule and Deadlines (Academic Calendar)

Registration Status

Reinstatement

Religious Holy Days, Calendar

Remedial Courses: English

Remedial Courses: Quantification

Renewal, Academic

Repeating Courses

Research Credit

Research Opportunities for Undergraduates

Resident Instruction

Resolution of Student Classroom Problems

Retention Requirements for College and Major

Retroactive Procedure (Administrative Course Cancellation)

Retroactive Procedure (Petitions for Exceptions to Academic Policies and Procedures)

Retroactive Registration

S

Satisfactory/Unsatisfactory Grading System (SA/UN)

Schedule Adjustment

Schedule Planning Resources

Schedule Preparation (Course Selection)

Scheduled Status

Scheduling Beginning Chemistry Courses

Scheduling Errors

Scheduling First-Year Writing Courses

Scheduling 400-, 500-, and 800-Level Courses

Scheduling Quantification Courses

Scheduling World Language Courses

Scholars Program

Scholarships

Schreyer Honors College

Science, Lab Courses

Second/Foreign Language Admission Requirement

Secondary School Units (Carnegie Units)

Section Change, Schedule Adjustment

Security of Student Records

Semester Classification

Semester Planning Worksheet

Seminars, First-Year

Senate Office

Senate Policies

Sequential Majors Program

Sexual Harassment

Simultaneous Degrees (Concurrent Majors Program)

Sophomore Application to Major (Administrative Enrollment Controls for Majors)

Student Activities

Student Aid (Financial Aid)

Student and Family Services

Student Records, Confidentiality

Study Abroad

Study Skills

Substitution of Courses (Exceptions to Degree Requirements)

Suffixes, Course

Summary of Academic Performance (Academic Background and Placements)

Summer Registration at Alternate Penn State Campuses

Summer Sessions

Supplemental Instruction (Guided Study Groups)

Syllabus

Symbols, Grade Report and Transcript

T

Target Grade-Point Average: Method for Computing

Teacher Certification

Technology Services

Technology Services (Information Technology Services)

Testing Center (eTesting)

Tests, Placement (Mathematics and Chemistry)

Time Conflict, Scheduling

Time Management

Total Credits (Defined)

Transcripts

Transfer Credit (Credit by Transfer from Other Institutions)

Transfer to Another Penn State Campus (Change of Assignment)

Trauma Drop/Withdrawal, Petitions for Exceptions to Academic Policies and Procedures

Tutoring

U

UN Symbol

Undergraduate/Graduate Degree Programs, Integrated

Undergraduate Studies, Associate Deans

Undergraduate Transcript and Grade-Report Symbols

Understanding a Transcript/Academic Verification

United States Cultures Requirement

Units, Carnegie

University Advising Council

University Calendar (Academic Calendar)

University Faculty Senate Office

University Fellowships Office

University Learning Centers (Penn State Learning)

University Park, Academic Advising Centers

University Policies, Faculty Senate

University Procedures, Academic Administrative

Unofficial Transcript (Advising Transcript)

Unsatisfactory Scholarship

Unsatisfactory Scholarship: Provisional and Nondegree

V

Validation, Credit by

Varsity Sport (Alternative for Earning Health and Physical Activity Credit)

Verification, Academic/Enrollment

Veterans, Credit for Educational Experiences

Veterans Programs

Visiting a Course

W

Warning, Academic (Unsatisfactory Scholarship)

Web/Online Course Work

WF, WN, WP Symbols

Withdrawal from the University

Withdrawal, Trauma Drop

Women in the Sciences & Engineering (WISE) Institute

World Campus

World Language Admission Requirement

World Language Courses, Scheduling

World Language Requirements in University Park Majors Listed by College

World Language, Substitution for General Education

World Language Tutoring Center

Writing Across the Curriculum

Writing Center (Penn State Learning)

Writing Courses, Scheduling First-Year

Writing-Intensive Courses

X

XF Symbol