国际学生 Services 学校的政策
学校的政策
剽窃 is a common, yet severe violation against 版权法 在大学.
剽窃
School in the Unites States may be very different from home. The issues most students run into that is different from their home country deals with academic integrity while here.
Please become familiar with plagiarism and what that means in the United States.
什么是抄袭?
According to the Merriam-Webster online dictionary, to "plagiarize" means:
- to steal and pass off (the ideas or words of another) as one's own
- to use (another's production) without crediting the source
- to commit literary theft
- to present as new and original an idea or product derived from an existing source
复制 & Paste is considered plagiarism; at post-secondary institution, you will be required to evaluate and express ideas in your own way.
剽窃 can result in severe punishment such as 缓刑 or 悬架.
Family 教育 Rights and Privacy Act of 1974 (FERPA)
什么是FERPA?
FERPA is a federal law designed to protect the privacy of education records, to establish the right of students to inspect and review their education records, and to provide guidelines for the correction of inaccurate and misleading data through informal and formal hearings. It is enforced by the Family Policy Compliance Office at the U.S. Department of 教育 in Washington, D.C.
To understand more about FERPA.
If you want a family or friend to have access to your educational records you can fill this form.
学术标准
http://s4j.opeluk.net/acs/tips/
重复的课程
Students have the option of repeating previously completed coursework within the following guidelines:
- A student may repeat up to four (4) courses, totaling no more than 18 credit hours, in which grades of “D” or “F” were originally earned, and petition to have only the second grade used in the calculation of the retention/graduation grade point average.
- Once a petition is submitted, the first four courses of repeated coursework will count in the sequence in which those courses were repeated.
- In the event such a petition is presented for a course that is repeated more than once, all grades earned with the exception of the first will be used to calculate the retention/graduation grade point average.
- Repeated grades that are forgiven will continue to appear on the official college transcript, but will be noted with an * as forgiven.
- Although the repeat provision may be an option for coursework completed prior to the conferral of a degree, a pre-existing graduation GPA will not be adjusted.
Guidelines on Disability Access and Accommodation
Office of the ADA Coordinator
在OCCC, persons with disabilities are entitled to access, 支持, 在适当的时候, reasonable accommodations and academic adjustments.