Academic Standards and Regulations scholastic standing review will be placed on AP. A student placed on AP is restricted from registering until he/she contacts the appropriate office, as designated by AP letter, to request the registration hold be lifted. 3. Dismissal A student placed on AP who fails to reach a 3.0 after a time determined by the school and program will be academically dismissed. 4. Re-admission Students dismissed from Southern New Hampshire University for academic causes may petition to be readmitted when scholastic evidence can be presented that indicates graduate university work can be successfully resumed.
Grades and Scholastic Standing (M.F.A. Program Only) Grades assigned for the residency and correspondence semesters are satisfactory/unsatisfactory. These are recorded by the faculty and available on PenPal (the student information system/Web interface) after each residency and each semester. Students will receive a detailed evaluation from their instructors, via email and shared with the director, narrating the student's progress, identifying strengths and weaknesses, and making recommendations for future study and writing. A grade of unsatisfactory will be assigned for the following: a second failure, within the same semester to turn in their packet on time; consistently poor quality of work; consistently insufficient quantity of work (i.e., thirty formatted pages per packet); plagiarism; or consistent failure to meet the overall standards for academic performance. A student who receives a grade of unsatisfactory must repeat the semester in order to receive credit for it. The MFA program does not issue grades of “incomplete.”
Office of the Registrar Southern New Hampshire University 2500 North River Road Manchester, NH 03106-1045 Or transcript requests can be faxed to the Registrar at 603. 629.4647, however, transcripts will not be released over fax lines. There is a charge of $5 per transcript that must accompany the request.
Policies Academic Honesty Southern New Hampshire University requires all students to adhere to high standards of integrity in their academic work. The university will not condone such activities as plagiarism and cheating. Students involved in such activities are subject to serious disciplinary action. This may include being failed by the instructor, academic suspension or expulsion from the university. Plagiarism is defined as the use, whether by paraphrase or direct quotation, of the published or unpublished work of another without full and clear acknowledgment. For examples of how to correctly document sources, refer to Robert C. Craven’s “Documenting Sources” at the Guides link on the Shapiro Library Web page. Cheating includes giving or receiving unauthorized assistance on quizzes, examinations or written assignments from any source not approved by the instructor. Examples of cheating include but are not limited to: • Submitting someone else’s work as your own with or without the permission of the individual. • Allowing someone to copy your work.
Two grades of unsatisfactory will cause immediate academic dismissal from the program and from Southern New Hampshire University.
Repeating Courses Students may repeat courses for credit. Students who fail courses will want or need to repeat the same courses at Southern New Hampshire University. In such instances, the first course grade will not be computed into the total gradepoint average (GPA); instead, the most recent course grade will be used. All prior grades will appear on students’ transcripts.
Transcript Request Except as provided by the Federal Family Education Rights and Privacy Act and in instances where a student consents to release his or her transcript to another party, the Registrar’s Office will not furnish a transcript to any person other than to the person identified by name on the transcript. Transcripts will not be furnished to students or former students whose financial obligations to the university have not been satisfied. Transcript requests may be obtained at any center or printed from the university’s website and mailed to:
• Using a writing service or having someone else write a paper for you. • Using someone else’s work without proper citation. • Submitting collaborative and/or group work as your own. • Stealing an exam from an instructor or an instructor’s office. • Sharing exam information, including a copy of the exam, with another student who has not taken the exam. • Taking a course and/or exam for another student. • Using unauthorized materials during a test or exam. It is a student’s responsibility to seek clarification from an instructor if the student has questions about what constitutes cheating. The instructor, who has the full authority to assign an “F” grade for that assignment or course after a discussion of the incident with the student, will handle initial violations of academic honesty. A report of the incident and its disposition will be sent to the dean of the school that offers the 63