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A - Admissions

  • A-1: First-Year Student
  • A-2: Transfer Student and Transfer Course Processes
  • A-3: Degree-Seeking Student Conditonally Enrolled in DUS
  • A-4: Nondegree Students
  • A-5: Nondegree to Degree Candidate
  • A-6: Nondegree to Degree-Campuses/Colleges
  • A-7: Degree Student to Nondegree Student
  • A-8: Status of Applicants Who Took Col. Courses Sr. Year H.S.
  • A-9: Admission of High School Students and "Experimental" Admissions Programs
  • A-10: Closing or Controlling Admission to a College
  • A-11: Articulation Agreements (Domestic and International Partners)

B - Advising

  • B-1: Structure of the University's Advising Program
  • B-2: The Nature of the University Advising Program
  • B-3: Responsibilities of Advisers and Advisees
  • B-4: Assignment of Advisers
  • B-5: Academic Information System
  • B-6: College, Campus, and Administrative Advising Information and Communications

C - Course Schedule

  • C-1: Developing the Course Offering
  • C-2: Registration
  • C-3: Minimum Course Enrollment Threshold Expectations
  • C-4: Special Course Registration Control
  • C-5: Enforcement of Recommended Preparation and Prerequisite, Concurrent, Co-requisite Courses
  • C-6: Courses with Requirements that Extend Beyond Semester Boundaries
  • C-7: Course Repeats - 2021

D - Academic College, Major, and Campus

  • D-1: Entrance to College and Lower Division Campus
  • D-2: Change of Major
  • D-4: Completion of Enrollment in Division of Undergraduate Studies
  • D-5: Early and Temporary Change of Campus

E - Acquisition of Credit

  • E-2: Credit by Examination
  • E-5: Credit by Transfer from Other Institutions
  • E-6: National and International Standardized Testing
  • E-7: Merged into E-6
  • E-8: Educational Experiences in the Armed Services
  • E-9: Educational Creditor Training Programs in Non-collegiate Organizations
  • E-10: Credit by Portfolio Assessment
  • E-11: Class Attendance
  • E-12: Course Substitution Process in Relation to Degree Requirements

F - Examinations

  • F-2: Final Examinations
  • F-3: Conflict Final Examinations
  • F-4: Conflict Non-Final Examinations
  • F-5: Evening Examinations

G - Grades

  • G-1: Grade Reporting
  • G-2: No Grade (NG)
  • G-3: Deferred Grades (DF)
  • G-5: Corrected Grades
  • G-6: Satisfactory-Unsatisfactory
  • G-7: Student Progress Reporting
  • G-8: Dean's List
  • G-9: Academic Integrity
  • G-10: Grade Mediation and Adjudication
  • G-11: Alternative Grading

H - Grade Point Average

  • H-2: Undergraduate Grade Forgiveness
  • H-3: Recovery Points

I - Drop Actions, Reinstatement

  • I-1: Academic Difficulty and Recovery
  • I-2: Reinstatement
  • I-5: Drops (or Disenrollments) by College
  • I-6: Limitations to Enrollment as a Nondegree Student

J - Withdrawal, Leave of Absence

  • J-1: Withdrawal
  • J-2: Leave of Absence
  • J-3: Military leave of Absence, Withdrawal, and Late Drop

K - Re-Enrollment

  • K-1: Re-enrollment as a Degree Candidate
  • K-2: Academic Renewal

L - Graduation Requirements

  • L-2: Degree Checking
  • L-4: Completion of Degree Requirements at Other Institutions
  • L-6: Minors–Entrance and Certification
  • L-9: First-Year Seminars
  • L-10: Holding Conferral of a Degree for Disciplinary Reasons
  • L-11: Degree Rescission
  • L-12: Retroactive Degree Conferral
  • L-13: Limitations on Source and Time for Credit Acquisition

M - Degree Programs, Options, Other Programs

  • M-3: Concurrent and Sequential Majors Programs
  • M-4: Administrative Processing for Adult Learner Students
  • M-5: Intercollege Undergraduate Programs
  • M-8: Education Abroad Programs
  • M-11: Schreyer Honors College
  • M-12: Guidelines for Undergraduate Credit Certificates

N - Records

  • N-1: Confidentiality of Student Records
  • N-2: Holds on Student Registration
  • N-4: Certification of Degree Conferral
  • N-5: Enrollment Status
  • N-6: Last Date of Academically-Related Activity

O - Procedure for Graduation

  • O-1: Graduation Policies—Baccalaureate Degree
  • O-2: Graduation Policies—Associate Degree
  • O-4: Graduation with Distinction
  • O-5: Posthumous Conferral of Degrees
  • O-6: Participation in Commencement Ceremonies

P - Undergraduate Curricular Procedures

  • P-0: Curricular Principles and Procedures
  • P-1: New Undergraduate Degrees/Majors, Options, IUGs, and Minors; or Name Changes
  • P-2: Changes in Undergraduate Programs/Majors, Options, IUGs, and Minors
  • P-3: Moving/Sharing/Discontinuing Degree Programs Among Colleges and Campuses
  • P-4: Academic Program or Minor Closure
  • P-5: Administrative Enrollment Controls for Undergraduate Majors
  • P-6: Special Titling of Common Courses
  • P-7: Five Year Automatic Drops
  • P-8: Program Descriptions for the Bulletin
  • P-9: Program Descriptions for Other Publications
  • P-10: Digital Learning Cooperative
  • P-11: Authorization to Offer Courses
  • P-12: Disciplinary Communities
  • P-13: Academic Entrance and Retention Requirements for Undergraduate Majors and Colleges
  • P-14: Classification of Instructional Programs (CIP) Change Procedure for Undergraduate Programs

R - Miscellaneous

  • R-1: Textbook Lists
  • R-4: Religious Observances
  • R-5: Syllabus
  • R-6: Classroom Academic Freedom Conference and Mediation
  • R-7: International Travel Policy for Penn State Undergraduate Students
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