Academic Policies

Dean's List

Students attain quarterly Dean's List status by completing at least 12 credit hours and earning a quarterly GPA of 3.40 or better. This status also indicates that students have not been placed on probation due to a low cumulative GPA and that they do not have any grades of I, D, or F in the current quarter, and that they have not been put on the academic dishonesty list (this will be described later). Below is an example of Dean's list grades.

Quarterly GPA = (total points / total credits)=58/16 = 3.625
Academic Status: Dean's List

Academic Warning

Any student whose overall Cumulative Grade Point Average, or Cumulative Grade point average in the principal field of study (PFOS) (based upon at least 20 credit hours attempted in the principal field) falls below 2.00 will be placed on warning. Student must achieve cumulative GPA and PFOS GPA of 2.00 in order to graduate.

Academic Status: Academic Warning

Probation

Any student whose Quarterly Grade Point Average falls below 2.00 or whose overall Cumulative Grade Point Average, or Cumulative Grade point average in the principal field of study (PFOS) (based upon at least 20 credit hours attempted in the principal field) falls
below 2.00 will be placed on probation. See the illustration below.

Quarter GPA = (total points / total credits)=30/16 = 1.87
Academic Status: Probation

Academic Suspension

1. "Any student whose quarterly GPA falls below 2.00 for two consecutive quarters will be suspended from ACMT. Students who are in their freshman year will be placed on suspension for 6 months. Students who have been studying at ACMT for more than one year will be placed on suspension for a period of 9 months."
   
2. "According to ACMT's Academic Suspension Policy, any student whose quarterly GPA falls below 1.00 will be suspended from ACMT. Students who are in their freshman year will be placed on suspension for 6 months. Students who have been studying at ACMT for more than one year will be placed on suspension for a period of 9 months."
   
   
   

While suspended, a student may not enroll in any ACMT course work or co-op. Students that have been suspended for the first time may return to ACMT without any special approval.

The academic status of students who have been suspended more than once must submit a petition to be reinstated to their studies at ACMT. The petition will be considered by a review board which will decide if the student will be allowed to return to his or her studies. If approved, students will continue their education without any student benefits (health insurance, subsidized meals in student restaurants, etc.).

Quarter GPA = (total points / total credits)=12/16 = 0.75
Academic Status: Academic Suspension

All Academic actions occur at the end of each quarter. A student has the right to ask for recalculation of his/her GPA if there has been Change of grade form processed.

Students completing the two-year program are allowed 3 and those completing the four-year program are allowed 6 years of studying with full student benefits. Upon expiration of 3/6 years students may continue their education without benefits. In addition, students can be enrolled at the same year level for the maximum of two years with full time student benefits. Upon expiration of 2 years at the same level, students may continue their education without benefits.

Academic Honesty

As a university, RIT, including ACMT, is committed to the pursuit of knowledge and the free exchange of ideas. In such an intellectual climate it is imperative that all members of this academic community behave in the highest ethical fashion in the manner by which they produce, share, and exchange this information. What that means to you is that at all times, you must do your own work and when the work assigned by the instructor has been assigned as a group, or team project, you must contribute work equal to your teammates. Any information submitted individually or by groups and teams, which are submitted for evaluation, must be properly documented. Any violation of these basic standards constitutes a breach of Academic Honesty and hence becomes Academic Dishonesty.

All instructors will explain to their students how the Academic Honesty Policy applies to the particular course they teach.

Academic Dishonesty

Academic Dishonesty falls into three basic areas: cheating, duplicate submission, and plagiarism.

1. Cheating

Cheating is any form of a fraudulent or deceptive academic act, including falsifying of data, and possessing, providing, or using unapproved materials, sources, or tools for a work submitted for faculty evaluation. Specifically, cheating includes copying other students work during tests, quizzes, and exams or making your work available to be copied. It is your responsibility to protect your work so that others cannot see what you have written. Similarly, copying work from another student's paper or project is considered cheating as is making your work available to someone else. If someone asks you to look at your paper to get some ideas of what to do is very dangerous. If the professor sees a similarity between two papers, both papers will be considered cheating.

2. Duplicate Submission

Duplicate submission is the submitting of work for credit in more than one course without prior approval of the instructors for those courses. Such behavior is dishonest because the student has not done original work. Some professors will give you permission to build on a project you did for another course

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3. Plagiarism

Plagiarism is the representation of other's ideas as one's own without giving proper credit to the original author or authors. Plagiarism occurs when you copy direct phrases or organizational structure from a text (e.g. books, journals, internet) and does not provide quotation marks, and citations, or when you paraphrase or summarize those ideas without giving credit to the author or authors. In all cases, if such information is not properly and accurately documented with appropriate credit given, then the student is guilty of plagiarism. Plagiarism also includes buying or copying a paper from the internet or allowing someone to write a paper for you. All the forms of plagiarism will be thoroughly explained in Writing Seminar and the rules must be followed in all courses.

Consequences of Academic Dishonesty

Professors are asked to document any acts of Academic Dishonesty and to report them to the Academic Chair. The consequences of Academic Dishonesty should be outlined in the syllabus for every course. Most professors will do the following. After notifying and presenting the student with the evidence of such misconduct, a grade of "0" will be assigned and the offence will be recorded on the cheater's list in the office of the Academic Chair. The student will also be required to meet with the Academic Chair regarding the act of academic dishonesty. A repeat offense in the same course will result in the student failing the course and the office will be recorded on the Academic Dishonesty list.

If a student commits three acts of academic dishonesty, or fails two courses as a result of academic dishonesty, anytime during their study at ACMT, s/he will be expelled from the institution without any future opportunity for return, or refund of tuition.