f r a n k l i n p i e rc e u n i v e r s i t y The Development Office gathers information and maintains a file on student’s parents for contact with them for important events such as Family Day and distribution of various university publications, including Parents Newsletter and Pierce Magazine. In addition, this file is used to enlist parent’s support in a number of University activities. Photographs are taken at university programs and activities, and may be used at the University’s discretion in publications.
Email and Electronic Signatures
The University maintains email accounts for all students and therefore, does not save student’s personal email accounts. The University uses the Franklin Pierce email account as an official means of communication with students. University staff, faculty and departments will communicate to students directly through Franklin Pierce email and in many instances will consider this email correspondence as the student’s signature. Faculty may communicate to an entire class of students in the same email and may expect students to reply in kind. Students are responsible for maintaining their University email account so that it is open for new mail and are expected to read their University email regularly and respond appropriately. If students choose to forward their University email to another email provider, they are still responsible for receiving all University communications.
Transcripts
An official transcript is one bearing the seal of the University and the signature of the Registrar. Official transcripts are normally mailed directly to institutions or persons considering the applicant for admission or employment. Each request for an official transcript must be accompanied by a signed request from the student and the applicable fee. An unofficial transcript is on plain paper without the University seal. Active students have access to unofficial transcripts via CampusWeb. Inactive students may request an unofficial transcript from the registrar’s office by submitting a written and signed request. Additional transcript request information and a downloadable (PDF) form are available on our web site. Note: Official transcripts will not be released for students who are not financially clear.
Commencement and Graduation
The Commencement Ceremony is held once a year in May at the University’s traditional campus in Rindge, New Hampshire. Students will be graduated at the end of the semester or term in which all degree and graduation requirements have been met.
Graduation Honors – Bachelor degrees
Undergraduate students will be awarded Latin honors upon conferral of the Bachelor degree if they have completed a minimum of 60 semester hours in residence and meet the following minimum requirements: Cum Laude: Cumulative grade point average of 3.25–3.49 at the time of degree conferral. Magna Cum Laude: Cumulative grade point average of 3.50–3.79 at the time of degree conferral. Summa Cum Laude: Cumulative grade point average of 3.80 or higher at the time of degree conferral. Valedictorian: This designation is based solely on the highest grade point average attained among those students who have, or are, graduating with a Bachelor degree at a given commencement ceremony and who meet the residency requirement for graduation honors (i.e., sixty semester hours of credit earned at Franklin Pierce). In the rare case of equal GPAs, the student with the most number of credits earned at Franklin Pierce University will be the 18