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Graduate Policies and Procedures

Many undergraduatestudent policies and proceduresalso apply to graduate students. It is important for graduate students to familiarizethemselves with these policies. Included among them are policies related to Tuition, Financial Aid, Registration/ Deregistration, Academic Grievance/Appeals,Campus Communications, Business Office,Campus Police/Parking, Schedule Changes (add/drop),Incompletes,and Course Cancellations.The policies listed in this section apply to specificgraduate programs. Please refer to your advisor or the appropriate graduate officefor further information.

Admission to the Graduate Program

Students must certify that all information contained on their admission application is correct and complete to the best of their knowledge.Those withholding and/or giving false information on the application may be ineligible for admission or later subject to dismissal.

Transferof Credits MEd:

1. Eight (8) semester or twelve (12) quarter hours of related graduate work with a grade of ‘B’or better from another institution may be credited toward the Master of

Education Degree upon approval by a committee comprised of three faculty members. 2. While all graduate classes successfullycompleted at 3. other accredited academic institutions may be considered for transfer, only those with a clear relevance and unmistakableparallel with current University of Rio

Grande Graduate courses can be credited toward our degree program. 4. Workshop credits are non-transferable,and do not count toward graduate degree requirements. 5. To be accepted, all transfer credits must be earned from an accredited institution within the past seven years.

Graduate Student Responsibility

• The student must assume responsibility for knowing the requirements and policies of the Graduate

Program at the University of Rio Grande. In no case will a requirement be waived, or an exemption granted because a student pleads ignorance of the requirement or asserts that his/ her advisor or other authority did not inform the student of the requirement.While the School of Graduate Studies and the student’s advisor will endeavor to aid in every way possible, the responsibility for meeting requirements stated in this Catalog rests with the student.

Professional DemeanorStandard

Graduate students are expected to maintain high professional and ethical standards, such as, but not limited to: • Regard for individual worth and dignity. • Support the principles of individualization(respect for uniqueness), acceptance (respect for individual worth and difference), self-determination(respect for individual choice), and empowerment. • Integrity, accountabilityand general ethical conduct. • “Good Moral Character” meaning the combination of personal traits of honesty, integrity, attention to duty, forthrightness, and self-restraint that enables a person to discharge the duties of the teaching profession fully and faithfully.

Agraduate faculty member shall notify the appropriate School Chair in writing if a student violates this standard. The faculty member will include the specific perceived violation accompanied by supporting documentation.

The School Chair will inform the student in person of the alleged violation.The student will have the opportunity to explain the situation.

If the School Chair determines that the student potentially violated the standard, he/she will convene a three-person ad hoc committee to review all the relevant documentation, to meet with the student, and to render one of the following decisions: no action taken, probation with specific conditions to be met for reinstatement, or immediate dismissal from the program.

The student may appeal the decision to the GraduateAppeals Committee. Acopy of the decision of the GraduateAppeals Committee will be placed in the student’s filein the Graduate Record’s Office.The decision is the finalstep in the appeals process; therefore, no further appeals shall be permitted.

Retention Standards for Graduate Students

MEdStudents: GraduateMEd studentsmust maintaina grade pointaverageof 3.0, continueto meetthe professional demeanor standard,and completetheirprogramwithinseven years.A gradeof ‘D’or ‘F’is notacceptable.Theseclasses will notcount towardgraduationand mustbe repeated.MEd studentsmust have a minimum3.25 gradepointaverageto graduate.