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LSA Handbook for Faculty and Instructional Staff

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Welcome

LSA Student Academic Affairs

• Office of the Assistant Dean

Advising Across the College

• Newnan LSA Academic Advising Center
• Peer Academic Advising Office
• The Comprehensive Studies Program
• The LSA Honors Program
• Residential College Academic Advsing
• LSA Academic Standards and Academic Opportunities
• Departmental Advising
• LSA Advising Technology
  • Advising Records
  • Academic Auditors
  • Publications, Web, and other media
• Testing Accommodation Center

Student Records

Faculty Rights and Responsibilities with Regard to LSA Community Standards of Academic Integrity 

• Resolving Academic Misconduct by Admonition
• Referring Academic Misconduct to the Office of the Assistant Dean

Classroom Conduct — Disruptive Students

Classroom Procedures

• Class Meeting Times
• Special Room Requests
• Class Roster
• Stating Classroom Objectives
• Policy on Class Attendance 
• Absence from Class Due to Illness or Other Unanticipated Circumstances
  • Report My Illness website
• Requiring Documentation for missing assignments
• Athletes and Other Students Representing the University in an Official Capacity
• Religious-Academic Conflicts
• Progress Report
• Examinations During the Term
• Final Exams
• Returning Papers and Exams
• Providing Accommodations to Students with Disabilities
• LSA Testing Accommodation Center

Grading

• Deadlines for Submitting Grades
• Posting Grades
• Web Grades
• Pass/Fail
• Audit
• Grading for a Two-Term Course
• Incomplete ("I")
• Time Extensions for Incompletes
• Grade Designations
• Grade Changes
• Retaining Grade Books
• Grade Grievance
• Repetition of Courses
• Recording level of student participation when entering a failing grade

Grade Review

• Action Pending
• Probation Actions
  • Probation
  • Probation Continued
  • Special Probation
  • Raised Probation
• Suspension
• Reinstatement
• Dismissal

Program of study in a majors

• List
• Individual Program of study in a major
• Honors Plan

Academic Minors Program

Course Elections Procedures

• Registration
  • Wolverine Access
  • Registration Appointments
  • Print-out
• Prerequisites
• Credit Hours
• Closed Course, Waitlist and Override Information
• Drop/Add
• Special Kinds of Academic Credit
  • Experiential and Directed Reading/Independent Study Courses

Registration Resources

• University Online Schedule of Classes
• LSA Academics and Requirements website
• LSA Course Guide
• Advice Online
• Curriculum Maintainer's Resource
• Key  to Course Listinng
  • catalog numbers
  • cross-listed courses
  • course titles
  • prerequisites
  • credit symbol
  • areas distribution designation
  • courses meeting certain college requirements
  • experiential, independent study and tutorial
  • repetition
  • excluded combinations of course elections
  • special grading patterns

Academic Support and Research Opportunities

• English Language Institute
• Language Resource Center
• Math Lab
• Physics Help Room
• Science Learning Center
• Gayle Morris Sweetland Center for Writing
• Undergraduate Research Opportunity Program

Instructional Support

• LSA Instruction Support Services
• Center for Inquiry Based Learning
• Center for Research on Learning and Teaching  
• Office of the Registrar — Evaluations
• Office of the Registrar — Examinations

Campus Resources for Consultation and Referral

• Strategies for Academic Success
• Academic Support Services
• Admissions (Credit Evaluation)
• LSA Current Student Scholarships
• Office of Student Conflict Resolution
• Counseling and Psychological Services
• Sexual Assault Prevention and Awareness Center
• University Health Service
• Services for Students with Disabilities
• Mental Health Resources
• Registrar
• The Career Center
• Study/Work Abroad
• International Center
• Student Legal Services
• Student Employment Office

APPENDICES:

• SAA Administrative Staff
• LSA Department Liaisons contact info

LSA Academic Calendar 2012-13: Important Dates

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