Academic Standards
The following details the measures that are used to determine student
academic standing. The standards have a quality component (GPA) measured
against a quantitative component (number of credits attempted).
1. Students with 1-15 total cumulative semester hours must have completed
those semester hours with at least a 1.75 cumulative GPA to advance to the
next level. Students with less than 1.75 GPA will be placed on probation.
Every attempt will be made to warn students throughout each semester of low
grades, but in some cases the low grades appear only after final exams.
2. Students with 15-30 total cumulative semester hours must complete those
semester hours with at least a 1.90 cumulative GPA to advance to the next
level. Students with less than 1.90 will be placed on probation. Every
attempt will be made to warn students throughout each semester of low
grades, but in some cases the low grades appear only after final exams.
a. Students with 30 or fewer credit hours
completed are classified as freshmen.
3. Students with
31-45 total cumulative semester hours must complete those semester hours
with at least a 2.0 cumulative GPA to advance to the next level.
Students with less than 2.0 will be placed on probation. Students in
this category for a second time are placed on academic suspension.
a. Students with more than 30 credit hours
completed are classified as sophomores.
4. Students with 46-64 total cumulative semester hours must complete those
semester hours with at least a 2.0 cumulative GPA to graduate from
Independence Community College. There is no warning at this stage.
Students must retake courses in which they had low grades to achieve a 2.0
cumulative GPA to graduate.
5. Students who have completed requirements (completed required 64 semester
hours) for graduation from ICC and have graduated but enroll in additional
classes shall be classified as post-graduate students.
To earn an
Associates Degree from ICC students must complete 64 credit hours
with a cumulative grade point average of no less than 2.0. Within the 64
credit hours, students must complete the following courses to earn an
associates degree:
a. English Composition I – 3 credit hours.
b. English Composition II – 3 credit hours.
c. Communications – 3 credit hours. Speech
(COM 1203) or Interpersonal Communication (COM 1233)
d. College Algebra or higher level
mathematics – 3 credit hours.
e. Arts & Humanities – (AA) 12 credit hours
from at least three of the following disciplines: art, foreign language,
history, literature, music, philosophy, theater. (Performance courses may
not be used to satisfy this requirement). (AS) (GS) Nine credit hours from
the three disciplines.
f. Social
& Behavioral Sciences – (AA) 12 credit hours from at least three of the
following disciplines: anthropology, elements of economics, geography,
political science, psychology, sociology. (AS) (GS) Nine credit hours from
the three disciplines.
g. Science
– (AA) Eight credit hours, which must include one biological and one
physical science 3-credit course, one of which must include a lab. (AS) 10
credit hours, which must include one biological and one physical science
3-credit course, one of which must include a lab. (GS) Five hours from any
area.
h. Computer
Science course – 3 credit hours. Usually, computer concepts and
applications, but if the student can demonstrate computer competency, a
higher level course such as Computer Information Systems, is acceptable to
fulfill this requirement.
i. Wellness/Lifetime
Fitness – 1 credit hour.
j. College Skills – 1credit hour.
k. Electives
– (AA) 15 additional credit hours must be taken from disciplines
consistent with those majors leading to a Bachelors of Arts Degree.
Performance courses may be used to satisfy this requirement. (AS) 20
additional credit hours must be taken from disciplines consistent with
those majors leading to a Bachelors of Arts or Science Degree.
Performance courses may be used to satisfy this requirement. (GS) 25
additional credit hours must be taken from disciplines consistent with
those majors leading to a Bachelors of Arts or Science Degree.
Performance courses may be used to satisfy this requirement.
l. A minimum of 15 credit hours must be
earned from Independence Community College to be awarded an Associates
degree. Advanced standing credit will not satisfy this 15-credit hour
requirement (i.e., CLEP, military credit, advanced placement.)
m. A
student must complete degree requirements under one of the two most recent
ICC college catalogs.
n. A
student must complete an accepted portfolio to meet graduation
requirements.
Scholarships are
awarded in a variety of areas: academic, athletic, journalism,
performance, etc. Students are advised to follow the guidelines
offered for each scholarship, as scholarships may be revoked if students to
not fulfill the various scholarship requirements. Generally, scholarship
application deadline is April 1 of the year in which the student is seeking
a scholarship. The following scholarships are available based on academic
performance.
3.5 – 4.0 GPA or Valedictorian or Salutatorian
of high school graduating class will receive a Presidential Scholarship of
tuition and use of books for up to 18 hours per semester. The student must
carry 16 credits or more per semester.
3.0 – 3.49 GPA will receive $200 per semester
with enrollment of 12 credit hours or more.
2.0 – 2.9 GPA will receive $100 per semester
with enrollment of 12 credit hours or more.
Students
affected by the procedures in this section will be notified of academic
probation and/or suspension on the semester grade reports which are sent to
the student’s last known address. In addition to the
end-of-semester report, every attempt will be made to notify students of low
grades throughout each semester. This procedure will begin with grade
notification to students from the instructors at the end of the first five
weeks of class, follow-up from guidance/coaching, and official notification
from ICC. GPA status for all fulltime ICC students will also be checked
at semester intervals by the Registrar. Instructors also will issue grades
at the end of the first 10 weeks of classes. Letters will be sent to all
students who are being placed on probation and/or suspension at the end of
each semester.
*Students receiving financial aid are subject to Satisfactory Academic
Procedures.
A student will be placed on academic probation if his/her cumulative grade
point average is less than the accepted standards for each semester.
Students should be aware that graduation requires a minimum grade point
average of 2.00.
Students on academic probation may not take more than 12 credit hours per
Fall or Spring semester, nor more than three credit hours per summer
session. All probationary students must have advisor approval for
registration.
A student placed
on probation status has two regular (Fall and Spring) semesters to raise the
cumulative grade point average to the accepted minimum for the semester.
If the minimum cumulative grade point average is not met following a semester of probation, the student is placed on Academic
Suspension.
A student on academic probation for two regular (Fall and Spring) semesters
who fails to raise his/her cumulative grade point average to the required
minimum will be placed on academic suspension and barred from registration
for the period of one regular (Fall or Spring) semester. Students may
appeal suspension. See Procedure for Academic Suspension Appeals.
An academically suspended student may apply for re-admission by submitting a
petition for re-admission at least one month prior to the beginning of the
semester or summer session for which the student seeks enrollment. The
petition will be reviewed by the Dean of Instruction.
The Dean of
Instruction may elect to approve the petition as submitted, to approve the
petition with conditions (e.g., limited coursework, specific classes
allowed, other classes denied, fresh start, etc.), to uphold suspension, or
to take action which is deemed in the best interest of the student.
Re-admission may include a change in major, removal of grades, adjustment of
cumulative grade point average, etc. If the student is
readmitted, he/she will automatically be placed on academic probation.
Students who desire to appeal probation, suspension, or denial of
re-admission decisions must submit a letter detailing the basis of the
appeal to the College Registrar. The letter will be reviewed by a special
committee of three representing the Student Progress Committee. Members of
this special review committee will be appointed by the chairman of the
Student Progress Committee. The special review committee will present their
findings and recommendation to the Student Progress Committee chair. The
Student Progress Committee chair will communicate that decision in writing
to the student, who may appeal the decision to the President of ICC.
ICC understands
that students might not get started in their first year of college in a way
they would wish. For some, the new surroundings, new classroom
demands, and the rigors of responsibility take their toll on
grades. To encourage students to continue in college and to encourage
students who have dropped out or were suspended, ICC provides academic
renewal to relieve the burden of past low academic performance.
a. A
student may request dropping one semester’s work from being calculated in
their Grade Point Average (GPA).
b. The semester in question must meet the
following requirements: (1) be more than two years in the past. (2) Have
been taken at ICC. (3) Must be entirely dropped (all courses in that
semester, not select courses.) (4) Academic renewal may occur only once at
ICC. (5) The semester in question will still be recorded on the
transcript, with grades noted as “cleared (CL)”; and will be listed as
“hours attempted,” but not as hours or grades earned. (6) The student must
demonstrate academic progress by completing a minimum of 12 credit hours
with a 2.0 or better GPA prior to applying for academic renewal. (7)
Students participating in academic renewal are ineligible for honors
programs. (8) Academic renewal forms are available from the Registrar.
A student who has stopped attending college for two or more years must meet
the graduation requirements of the current ICC catalog. Students who have
continuous enrollments, regardless of the number of years to complete
requirements for an associate’s degree, will meet the graduation
requirements under the catalog covering the dates on which the student
initially enrolled.
Honesty in academic work is, of course, a central element of learning. The
presentation of another person’s work as one’s own or the act of seeking
unfair academic advantage through cheating/copying are violations of ICC’s
Student Code of Conduct. The descriptions below explain ICC’s standards of
academic conduct. ICC believes these standards are essential in the
learning environment, and are central in learning and achieving through the
student’s life-long endeavors. The following acts of academic dishonesty are
among those which will lead to ICC disciplinary action and/or dismissal from
the college:
a. Use of textbooks, library
materials, or notes during an examination where those materials are not
permitted.
b. Use
of “crib sheets” or hidden notes in an examination.
c. Looking
at another student’s test paper.
d. Allowing
another student to see view your test paper during a test.
e. Possessing
written questions or answers (cheat sheets) for any closed-book
examination.
f. Having
another person stand in for you at an examination or any other graded
activity.
g. Deliberate
falsification of any graded activity.
h. Collaboration
with others in test or other graded activities when collaboration is
not permitted.
i. Submission
of previously-graded work for a new assignment (without instructor’s
consent).
j. Use (either in part or whole) of
documents obtained from internet sources designed to encourage dishonesty
and which are not the immediate result of the student’s own
academic effort.
k. Continuing work on an examination or
assignment after the allocated time has elapsed.
l. Plagiarism (in any form) is defined as
taking another person’s intellectual work and using it as one’s own.
Plagiarism is defined as submitting college work (assignments,
examinations, etc.) which is not mainly the work of the student, but for
which the student claims credit. This may include quoting without giving
proper credit to a source, expanding another person’s work without giving
credit to that person, submitting another person’s work under the pretense
it is your own. Simply, plagiarism is taking credit for work that is
not your own.
m. Cheating. Cheating is defined as
gaining unfair advantage by deception or breaking the rules on the
submission and completion of any college course assignment. Cheating is
also the act of claiming work that is not the work of the claimant, and/or
submitting work which is based on sources or activities forbidden by the
instructor. Cheating is also classified as helping another student cheat –
such as passing material to another student, allowing another to look at
your test answers/materials, or covering for another student who is in the
act of cheating. The student caught cheating will get 0 (zero) points on
the specific test/assignment. The Dean of Instruction is to be notified
of individual cheating, and is to keep a record of the incident. The
second time that the student is caught cheating in any class, he\she will
be withdrawn from the class by the Dean of Instruction, and the transcript
will show an XF. (Withdrawn failing with extenuating circumstances). If a
student is withdrawn from more than one class for cheating, he\she will be
suspended for at least one semester, and will be placed on a probationary
status if ever allowed to return to ICC. Students returning in this
category will be probationary, and will be suspended permanently if caught
cheating during the probationary period, or at any time after that period.
As the primary arbiters of academic integrity, individual faculty members
will include these standards in all syllabi, and may elect to address
episodes of academic misconduct on a “case-by-case” basis. Specific
sanctions include, but are not limited to, the following:
a. Verbal warning/no grade-related action.
b. An F on the assignment/quiz/examination
(with the possibility of makeup)
c. An F on the assignment/quiz/examination
(with no possibility of makeup)
d. An F in the course (with or without
prohibition of future enrollment)
e. Designation of XF (withdrawn failing with
extenuating circumstances) grade (with or without prohibition of future
enrollment)
f. Recommendation for administrative
academic sanction(s).
A student who withdraws from a class or is withdrawn by an official of the
college because he/she was caught cheating, will be assigned a XF (withdrawn
failing with extenuating circumstances) on his\her transcript.
Students who withdraw from class, or are withdrawn from class, will receive
one of the following withdrawal designations
(No designation) (drop)
– Students who withdraw from a class in the first two weeks of the class.
(W) -
Students who withdraw from class before the start of the seventh week of
classes. (This time period coincides with the first progress notification at
the end of the fifth week of classes.)
(WP) – Students who withdraw from a class with a passing grade after the
start of the seventh week.
(WF) – Students who withdraw from a class with a failing grade after the
start of the seventh week.
(XF) – Students who withdraw or are withdrawn for cheating in class at any
time.
(XF) – Students who are withdrawn from class for disciplinary reasons at any
time.
The numbers of
classroom hours a student my miss in a particular course is determined by
each instructor, and will be covered in the syllabus for that course.
It recommended that students attend all classes, and miss no more the number
of classroom hours equivalent with the number of credits for that course.
In other words, students are advised to miss no more than three classroom
hours in a three-credit course. We believe that classroom/course
success is directly related to classroom attendance. Students are also
advised to contact their instructors when they miss class. Missing class
is not an acceptable excuse for incomplete assignments. Students may enroll
in classes late only with permission of the instructor. If an instructor
allows a late enrollment, classes missed by the student prior to enrollment
may not count as absences.
Students are expected to attend all sessions of all their classes on time.
Tardiness occurs when a student shows up for class after the time specified
for the start of the class. The instructors may reject a late student from
the class, or not allow the student to enter, and/or withdraw a student from
class if the student is habitually late.
Incompletes are given by instructors on an individual, case-by-case basis.
All incompletes are to be completed in the next full semester. This means
students may fulfill the requirements of an incomplete in a summer
semester, but must no later than the next fall or spring semester
following the semester in which the incomplete grade was granted. When an
incomplete is not completed in the required time, students will receive an F
for the particular course.
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Academic Contacts
Dr. Paula Davis,
Dean of Instruction
Phone:
620.332.5418
FAX:
620.331.6821
Location:
Academic Building, Lower
Level
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