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- Academic Year
- The time period containing the academic sessions held during consecutive fall, spring, and summer semesters.
- American Indian or Alaskan Native
- A person having origins in any of the original peoples of North America and who maintains cultural identification through tribal affiliation or community recognition.
- Asian
- A person having origins in any of the original peoples of the Far East, Southeast Asia, or the Indian Subcontinent, including, for example, Cambodia, China, India, Japan, Korea, Malaysia, Pakistan, the Philippine Islands, Thailand, and Vietnam.
- Assessment
- The systematic collection, review, and use of information about instructional and administrative programs undertaken for the purpose of improving student learning and development.
- Assessment Method
- A process employed to gather assessment information.
B
- Black or African American
- A person having origins in any of the black racial groups of Africa.
C
- CIP (Classification of Instructional Programs)
- A numerical classification and standard terminology for secondary and postsecondary instructional programs. CIP codes are used by universities nationally to report various instructional program data to the U. S. Department of Education and other government and higher education organizations.
- Credit
- Recognition of attendance or performance in an instructional activity (course or program) that can be applied by a recipient toward the requirements for a degree, diploma, certificate, or other formal award.
- Credit Course
- A course that, if successfully completed, can be applied toward the number of courses required for achieving a degree, diploma, certificate, or other formal award.
- Credit Hour
- See Unit Hour.
D
- Degree
- An award conferred by a college, university, or other postsecondary education institution as official recognition for the successful completion of a program of study.
- Degree-Seeking Student
- A student enrolled in courses for credit who is recognized by the institution as seeking a degree or other formal award. At the undergraduate level, this is intended to include students enrolled in vocational or occupational programs.
- Direct Methods
- Processes employed to assess student learning by requiring students to demonstrate knowledge and skills directly. Objective tests, essays, presentations, portfolios, performances, and classroom assignments are examples.
E
- Enrollment
- Registration for coursework and payment of fees constitutes official enrollment.
F
- Faculty
- Persons whose specific assignments customarily are made for the purpose of conducting instruction, research, or public service as a principal activity (or activities), and who hold academic-rank titles of professor, associate professor, assistant professor, instructor, lecturer, or the equivalent of any of these academic ranks. If their principal activity is instructional, this category includes deans, directors, or the equivalent, as well as associate deans, assistant deans, and executive officers of academic departments (chairpersons, heads, or the equivalent). Student teachers or research assistants are not included in this category.
- First-Time First-Year Student
- A student attending any institution for the first time at the undergraduate level. Includes students enrolled in the fall term who attended college for the first time in the prior summer term. Also includes students who entered with advanced standing (college credits earned before graduation from high school).
- First-Time Freshman
- An entering freshman who has never attended any college. Includes students enrolled in the fall term who attended college for the first time in the prior summer term. Also includes students who entered with advanced standing (college credits earned before graduation from high school).
- First-Time Student
- A student attending any institution for the first time at the level enrolled. Includes students enrolled in the fall term who attended a postsecondary institution for the first time at the same level in the prior summer term. Also includes students who entered with advanced standing (college credit earned before graduation from high school).
- First-Year Student
- A student who has completed less than the equivalent of one full year of undergraduate work; that is, less than 30 semester hours in a 120-hour degree program or less than 900 contact hours.
- Fiscal Year
- A twelve-month period running from July 1 through the following June 30.
- Freshman
- A first-year undergraduate student.
- Full-Time Equivalent (FTE) Sta