Policy # 6215:10
Subject: Graduation Requirements
Section: Academic Affairs (6200-6299)
Effective: December 6, 1989
NMCC’s graduation requirements are established by the appropriate department and approved by the Curriculum Committee, the Vice President, and the President. In some instances where new certificate, diploma, or degree programs or name changes to existing programs are proposed, the Board of Trustees’ approval will be required. In situations where a particular department may not have the academic expertise or does not exist at the time the program is proposed, a program may be generated and approved external to the department be fore the department is established or develops the expertise.
Students will graduate under the program requirements in effect at the time of their admission providing the student maintains continuous enrollment. If enrollment is broken, except for summer sessions, the student is required to satisfy the graduation requirements in effect at readmission unless those requirements are waived by the Vice-President and the academic administrator responsible for the program.
In instances where graduation requirements are reduced, students enrolled at the time of the curriculum change will be given the option of graduating under the new program requirements. In such cases, the department chair and Vice President must document in writing any waiver of particular course requirements based upon the specific approved curricula revisions.
In addition, as a department evaluates a particular student’s background, the department chair, in consultation with the student’s advisor, may recommend a waiver of a particular course required in a program and/or the substitution of a course not specified in the graduation requirements for a required course. In such cases, there must be a written justification for the recommendation and the Vice-President must approve the recommended action and forward this approval to the student services area. For a course waiver or a course substitution to be approved, the department chair and Vice-President must require a strong justification for such a deviation form published graduation requirements. It is anticipated that, except for approved curricula revisions which change graduation requirements, course substitutions and course waivers will be very rare.
In summary, any deviation from an approved program of studies must be justified in writing, approved by the department chair and Vice-President, and forwarded to the student services office for documentation in the student’s academic record. This information becomes part of the student’s permanent academic record. Last changed: Mar 08 2007 at 1:36 PM
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