14.2.1 Students must be registered for a class to receive credit.

14.2.2 It is the responsibility of the student to check his/her class schedule, at the time of registration, after any adds or drops and prior to the end of the add and drop deadlines to make sure s/he is officially enrolled in classes.

14.2.3 Students may also check their class schedule at the Registrar's Office, by accessing the voice response system or by accessing the web products. Students can access only their own information.

14.3.1 Confidentiality of Transcripts: Official transcripts are protected by the Family Education Rights and Privacy Act of 1974 (FERPA). Only college personnel with a "need to know", as determined by their duties, have access to transcript documents. Parents, spouse, friends, other students, etc., may not pick up a copy of the transcript without written release from the requesting party.

14.3.2 Academic transcripts are available upon written, faxed, or verbal request of the student or former student to the Office of the Registrar. The requests must include student name, social security number, dates of attendance, student birth date, and student signature. In addition, the request should outline instruction for method of delivery. There is a cost associated with this service.

14.3.3 No transcripts will be released until all college debts are paid in full.

14.5.1 Instructors are required to have their final grades posted on the web and submitted to the Office of the Registrar 48 hours (2 working days) after the final examination.

14.5.2 Grades are available each semester at the Registration window, on the telephone voice response system and on the student web product. Students picking up their grades in person are required to show photo identification. Instructions for obtaining grades by telephone or computer are available in the semester course schedule.

14.5.3 Grade changes are made only when the instructor has made a clerical error when computing or recording grades, or when a student has completed necessary work for an I grade, or when a grievance has found the grade to be inappropriate. Grade changes for other purposes are not permitted.

14.6.1 The student, having completed a substantial portion of the required work for a class, is unable to complete the work for a legitimate reason such as illness or accident.

14.6.2 A student who receives an incomplete does not re-register for the class. If the situation requires that the student sign up for the class again, the instructor should give the grade that was earned, and the student's subsequent grade will replace the original grade.

14.6.3 The incomplete course work cannot be completed in a formal classroom situation.

14.6.4 A student granted an Incomplete should not have unfair advantage over other students.

14.6.5 Incomplete work must be completed within the time designated by the instructor. If possible, the incomplete work should be completed the following term.

14.6.6 If the above conditions are satisfied, then the instructor and the student generate a contract. The contract should indicate the work to be completed, the deadline for the work, and should be signed by both the instructor and the student. Copies of the contract should be given to the Dean's Office and the student. The original should be filed in the instructor's office.

14.6.7 Incomplete grades are not computed in the student's grade point average, however, the "I" grade will be changed to an "F" after one year if the instructor has not submitted a grade change card to indicate that the work has been completed.

14.7.1 Students may register for classes in which they received low grades, and those grades will be replaced by the best grades received as long as both classes were taught at this institution.

14.7.2 A student must register and pay tuition for the semester in which the class is repeated.

14.7.3 Hours earned in repeat courses may be counted toward graduation requirements only once.

14.7.4 The student's GPA will be recalculated on the basis of the best grade received.

14.7.5 It is the student's responsibility to fill out a repeat card at the Registrar's Office upon completion of a "repeat" course in order to have the GPA recalculated.

14.8.1 Permission to take an early final examination can be granted by the dean of the division in which the student is taking the course, with the instructor's permission. The student will be required to make arrangements with the instructor. Early final examinations are not to be requested simply for the convenience of testing early. A compelling cause must be submitted for a request to be granted.

14.9.1. Make-up examinations may be given at the discretion of the instructor. The student will make arrangements with the instructor for the make-up test. Instructors are in no way obligated to allow students to make up a missed examination, especially if prior arrangements were not approved between the student and the instructor.

14.10.1 Academic renewal permits returning students to discount limited previous poor grades from grade point calculations.

14.10.2 The grades requested to be discounted must be at least seven years old.

14.10.3 Conditions under which academic renewal will be considered:

14.10.4 Process for application

14.10.5 Academic renewal may not be accepted by transfer institutions.