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ACU students may take no more than 9 hours of classes through the
intercollege agreement each semester and must be enrolled in at least 3
hours at ACU for that term.
Students taking courses through intercollege registration will be
charged ACU's current tuition rate. Billing is handled by the
institution in which the student is matriculated. Complete the
procedure that follows:
1. Obtain an Intercollege Enrollment form from the Registrar's
Office.
2. Secure approval signatures from the student advisor, the
department chair of the course, Student Financial Services and
the Registrar's Office.
3. Take the completed form to the Registrar's Office of the
university where the course is taught to register.
Students from either Hardin-Simmons University or McMurry
University who wish to enroll in ACU hours need to first see the
registrar's office at their institution. Students will receive a form
granting permission to take courses at ACU. This form should be
brought to the ACU Registrar's Office, where the student will be
processed and registered in the appropriate courses.
Post-Enrollment Transfer Credit
Students who are enrolled at ACU may receive credit for courses taken
at another institution, subject to the following restrictions:
1. Obtain written approval on a Transfer Course Application (TCA)
before registering for the courses at another institution. The
chair of the ACU department that offers the course must approve
the TCA. If comparability is not established through TCA
approval prior to enrollment in the course, the transfer credit
may count as elective credit only.
2. After being classified as a junior, a student may take no more
than 6 hours at a two-year college, not to exceed 66 hours.
3. After enrolling at ACU, students must observe the following
regulations:
* Take no more than one general education (University or
Degree Core) required course in English and history at another
institution.
* Due to the special nature of some science core curriculum
courses (e.g. BIOL 120, AENV 130) and the mathematics core
curriculum course MATH 120, students may not find an
equivalent course at another institution.
* Credit will be posted at the level at which the course was
taken.
* Only courses equivalent to or comparable to those offered by
ACU are accepted.
* Only grades of"C" or higher are accepted for transfer credit.
* Grades for transfer courses outside of the intercollege
agreement are not included in the ACU GPA.
* "Pass/Fail" and "Credit/No-Credit" grades are not accepted for
transfer credit.
* Courses taken at international institutions that are comparable
to the U.S. courses must be credited in college credit hours.
* ACU does not offer or accept college credit for vocational/
technical training or for work force education courses.
* Evaluation of the transfer intended to meet specific ACU
degree requirements is the responsibility of the chair of the
department offering the comparable course at ACU.
* Credits will be posted when the official transcript(s) reaches
the ACU Registrar's Office from the issuing university.* Students must earn their last 24 hours in residence at ACU.
(Cooperative degrees are an exception.)* Students must earn a minimum of 24 semester hours of upper-
level work including 9 hours in the major in residence at ACU.
* To be eligible to graduate with honors (summa, magna, cum
laude), students must have completed 64 hours of course work
at ACU.
* Students on academic suspension are ineligible to transfer
credit without written approval from their academic dean or the
specific directive of the Suspension Appeals Committee or the
University Readmissions Committee. (See page 29 for
information about academic suspension.)
Graduate Work for Undergraduate Students
Students within 9 hours of graduation may petition the graduate dean
to take up to 6 hours of graduate level course work at ACU for
graduate credit. Before registering for graduate courses written
approval must be obtained from:
* the student's advisor
* chair of the department in which the course is offered
* dean of the graduate school
Graduate courses may not be substituted for undergraduate courses nor
be applied toward an undergraduate degree.
Grading
Grade Definitions and Points
The following grades are used at ACU. The grade point values shown
are per semester hour of credit.
Grade Definitions and Points
Grade Marks Grade Meaning Grade Points
A Excellent 4.0
B Good 3.0
C Average 2.0
D Inferior but passing 1.0
F Failing 0.0
I Incomplete 0.0
IP In-Progress Not counted
P Passing Not counted
CR Credit Not counted
NC No-Credit Not counted
W Withdrew Not counted
WF Withdrew while failing 0.0
Students receive grades by accessing my.acu.edu. Grades are mailed to
all first-year freshmen students at their permanent address. Students
who have signed and submitted an Education Records Release form
have authorized ACU personnel to release academic information, on
request, to the person(s) designated on the form by the student.
Education Records Release forms are on file in the Registrar's Office.
Academic History and Grading Appeals
The grade of the student becomes a part of that student's permanent
academic history. The transcript is the document that provides records
of a student's academic performance at ACU. Because of the necessity
of the permanency of these records, grades for a course become part of
academic history after one long semester has passed and may not be
changed except in extraordinary circumstances and by special
permission granted by the Office of the Provost.
The procedure for grade dispute resolution is as follows: The student is
to begin at the initial level of the dispute. Thus, the student shouldattempt to resolve the dispute with the professor in question. The
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