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from the Admissions and Records office.
The student must complete the petition
and return it with the necessary fee. It will
be approved or disapproved in accordance
with the policies listed in Appendix C. Upon
approval by the Admissions and Records
office, the petition will be forwarded to the
department in charge of administering the
challenge examination. The examination is
prepared by the department of the college
responsible for instruction of the course.
The examination will be comprehensive in
nature, covering all the basic skills required
of a student completing the course in the
regular manner. Lists of courses approved
for challenges and related fees are available
in the Admissions and Records office.
Academic Advisement Report
For help in schedule planning and course
selection, degree-seeking students may
request an academic advisement report
(AAR) on MyTMCC.
Transfer students who wish to use credit
earned at other institutions for their degree
or certificate may request an evaluation of
credits when they have all official transcripts
from their former institutions on file in the
Admissions and Records office. Students
must be currently or previously enrolled
to receive this service. Transfer work will
not show up until an official transcript
evaluation is completed. Students must
have attended within two years for any
academic advisement report to be available
online.
Non-traditional education credit can only
be applied, if approved, toward anAssociate
of Applied Science, an Associate of General
Studies or a Certificate of Achievement.
The student must have at least 15 semester
credits at TMCC before non-traditional
credit is considered.
Family Educational Rights and
Privacy Act
TMCC conforms to the Family Educational
Rights and Privacy Act pertaining to student
records and their privacy, their inspection
and the appeal rights of the student. For full
details about this policy, See Appendix G. In
accordance with this act, TMCC designates
the following student information as
directory information and as such can
disclose it to the public at the college’s
discretion: name, address, email address,
telephone number, dates of attendance,
full or part-time status, degree, emphasis, or
certificate awarded, and date of graduation.
To withhold disclosure of this directory
information, the student must provide
written notification to the Admissions and
Records office using the TMCC Privacy
Notice for Printed Materials, or by updating
their privacy settings in their Student Center.
Attendance
Because instructors consider class
attendance an integral part of the learning
experience, students are required to
attend the first class of each course in
which they register and adhere to the
attendance policy established by the
course instructor and stated in the course
syllabus. It is the students’ responsibility
to withdraw from classes they are unable
to attend. During the 100% refund
period, an instructor may drop a student
for nonattendance and/or not meeting
the prerequisites for a class. For policy
governing religious obligations, please
refer to Appendix Q.
Grade Reports
At the end of each semester, students’
grades will be available in their Student
Center. Students can access the system
approximately one week after the end of
the term for their grades. Students who
require a printed copy of the grade report
may print one from MyTMCC. To receive
a complete summary of the academic
history, students should request an official
transcript.
Grading Scale
The following grades and marks are
used at TMCC.
GRADE GRADE POINT VALUE
A SUPERIOR 4.0
A- 3.7
B+ 3.3
B ABOVE AVERAGE 3.0
B- 2.7
C+ 2.3
C AVERAGE 2.0
C- 1.7
D+ 1.3
D BELOW AVERAGE 1.0
D- 0.7
F FAILURE 0.0
The grade point value associated with
each grade denotes how many points
are accumulated for each credit earned
with that grade. The grade point average
is determined by dividing the sum of the
grade points earned by the total number
of credits earned with a regular letter
grade.
Individual faculty members choose
whether to use the “plus” and “minus”
grades. Students are informed of the
instructor’s choice of grading scale at
the beginning of the class in the course
syllabus. Students may not appeal
the format an instructor chooses. The
following marks are also part of the
grading system, but carry no grade point
value.
P PASS: workforce development and
continuing education, developmental,
credit by exam courses or nontraditional
credit only
S SATISFACTORY: C or above
U UNSATISFACTORY: D or below
I INCOMPLETE
IP IN PROGRESS
AD AUDIT
W WITHDRAWAL: student withdraws
from a course by the midpoint (60%) of
the course. Date of last attendance is
stored in PeopleSoft.
NR NOT REPORTED: assigned by
registrar pending submission of final
grade by instructor.
R REPLACED: individual course grade
replaced under academic forgiveness (will
not calculate into GPA)
Incomplete Grades
An incomplete may be given if the
student has completed a substantial
portion of the class (75 percent) with at
least a grade of C. There must be some
verifiable, compelling reason for the lack
of completion of the class. A conference
between the instructor and the student
should be held prior to the due date for
grades at the end of the semester. A
detailed statement describing the work
to be completed, signed by the instructor
and the department chair, must be
submitted to the Admissions and Records
office.
Students have 180 days in which to
make up assignments or examinations
for a course in which they receive an
incomplete. Failure to do so will result
in the incomplete grade being changed
to an ‘F’ grade. Summer session is not
defined as a semester for this purpose.
Students wishing to complete the work
for a course in which they received an
incomplete must make arrangements
with the instructor who originally issued
that incomplete.
Normal Degree Progress
Students progressing toward a degree,
emphasis, or certificate must maintain a
minimum cumulative grade point average
of 2.00, which is equivalent to an average
grade of C.
Retaking a Course
Students have the right to retake
any course and have only the highest
grade used in the computation of their
total grade point average. Students will
not receive duplicate credit for retaken
courses. Students who are receiving
financial aid or veterans’ benefits should
consult with the appropriate office from
which they are receiving aid before
retaking a course.
For financial aid, students may repeat
a course no more than one time, after
which they may not receive funding for
that class.