rasmussen.edu | 888-5-RASMUSSEN ACADEMIC INFORMATION AND COLLEGE POLICIES Externships, Practicums, and Clinicals in Nursing and Health Sciences programs have attendance requirements that are more stringent than the attendance policy above. Attendance policies for programs with additional requirements can be found in program-specific manuals/handbooks. Rasmussen College Academic Integrity Policy I. Introduction: As an institution of higher learning, Rasmussen College is dedicated to global enrichment and meeting the evolving needs of our diverse communities. In pursuit of this commitment, students of Rasmussen College are expected to uphold the very highest business and personal ethics and embrace opportunities for engaging in honest intellectual inquiry by practicing academic integrity. Academic Integrity is the commitment to five fundamental values: Honesty, trust, fairness, respect, and responsibility. The purpose of this policy is to clarify the College’s expectations with regard to student academic behavior and provide examples of academic misconduct. Misconduct is a violation of the Academic Integrity Policy, whether intentional or unintentional, and includes all forms of academic cheating. II. Definitions a) Academic Misconduct is the violation of the Academic Integrity Policy, including all forms of academic cheating including but not limited to acts listed below and any other act that results in unfair advantage to the student. b) Cheating: Distributing or receiving answers or information by any means other than those expressly permitted by an instructor for any academic exercise. Examples include: i. Copying answers, data, or information for any academic exercise from another student in which the student is not expressly permitted to work jointly with others. ii. Impersonation: Assuming another student’s identity or allowing another person to complete an academic exercise on one’s own behalf. iii. Using or attempting to use unauthorized materials, texts, devices, notes, information, or study aids to gain unfair advantage in any academic exercise (i.e., assignments, discussions, tests, quizzes, papers, labs). c) Collusion: Knowingly assisting, attempting to assist, or receiving assistance from another student or students to commit academic misconduct, or conspiring with any other person in or outside of the College to commit misconduct. d) Destruction, Theft, Obstruction, Interference: Seeking to gain unfair academic advantage by destroying, damaging, or stealing equipment or products of any academic exercise; or obstructing or interfering with an instructor’s materials or another student’s academic work. e) Fabrication, Falsification, Forgery: Deliberately falsifying, altering, or inventing student records, information or citations. Forgery is the act of imitating or counterfeiting documents, signatures, and the like. f) Plagiarism is the act of representing an individual’s or organization’s words, thoughts, or ideas as one’s own. Examples include: i. Using information (a paraphrase or quotation, in whole or in part) from a source without attempting to give credit to the author of that source. ii. Using charts, illustrations, images, figures, equations, etc., without citing the source. iii. Using an academic exercise (in whole or in part) purchased or copied from a ghostwriter or paper/essay mill. iv. Copyright infringement or piracy, including the use, alteration, or duplication of media, software, code, or information when expressly prohibited or where copyright exists or is implied. III. Violations: Students who violate the academic integrity policy (commit academic misconduct) are subject to corrective action in order to deter future misconduct and to hold students accountable for their actions. Academic Integrity violations and corrective actions are documented and cumulative; corrective actions may be increased based on a past disciplinary record, the severity of the violation, and the impact upon the academic community. The College reserves the right to dismiss a student from the College for academic misconduct; students who are dismissed from the College because of academic misconduct may not reenroll. Students who commit Academic Misconduct also run the risk of harming future educational and employment opportunities. IV. Appeal: A student found in violation of the Academic Integrity Policy may appeal a finding of misconduct using the Academic Appeal Procedure. Consortium Agreement Rasmussen College has signed consortium agreements among all Rasmussen College campuses. Course requirements for programs may be completed at any of the campus locations, as the schools have common ownership and common courses, and students will have the flexibility to take courses from all locations as they choose. Students who attend a class at a location other than their home campus (primary attendance location) will have their total tuition and fees charged by their home campus. All financial aid will be awarded and disbursed from the home campus. The home campus monitors satisfactory progress. A copy of the consortium agreement is kept on file at each campus. Students have the right to review and acknowledge the agreement prior to taking courses at other campuses. TRANSFER OF CREDIT POLICIES General Transfer of Credit • Rasmussen College reserves the right to accept or deny transfer of credit based on the guidelines below. • Students who wish to transfer credits to Rasmussen College must first apply for admission to the College. • Students must request that official transcripts containing coursework for review be sent directly to Rasmussen College at: Rasmussen College Attn: Transcript Department 8300 Norman Center Drive Suite 300 Bloomington, MN 55437 It is the student’s responsibility to ensure that all official transcripts have been received by Rasmussen College. • As part of the acceptance process, official and unofficial transcripts will be evaluated for transfer of credit. Students will receive notification 130 regarding the total number of credits accepted for transfer and the equivalent Rasmussen College courses. • Students in bachelor-completer programs excluding Health Information Management, will be withdrawn from the College if official transcripts are not received by the Friday of the thirteenth week of enrollment. • A student may send copies of transcripts or documents during the initial admissions process for estimation purposes only. Any transfer credit conditionally awarded in fulfillment of a prerequisite or co-requisite through the use of an unofficial transcript will be rescinded if an official transcript is not received by Rasmussen College at the time the required course is scheduled due to curriculum sequence. All necessary credits will be required to be completed in order to graduate. • College-level courses completed at regionally or nationally accredited institutions of higher learning as recognized by the Department of Education and the Council on Higher Education Accreditation (CHEA), or recognized by the American Council on Education, will be considered for college transfer. • Students must complete 33% of their program requirements at Rasmussen College, and no more than 67% may be completed via transfer credits, course waivers, credit by examination, or other means, except as noted below. 1. Students in the Medical Assisting, Medical Laboratory Technician, Physical Therapist Assistant, Radiologic Technology, and Surgical Technologist programs must complete at least 50% of their program requirements at Rasmussen College, and no more than 50% may be completed via transfer credits, course waivers, credit by examination, or other means, with the exception of “block transfer” candidates for the Surgical Technologist Associate’s Degree and Healthcare/Health Sciences Associate’s Degree – Medical Assisting Specialization. 2. Students in the Practical Nursing Diploma program must complete at least 75% of their program requirements at Rasmussen College, and no more than 25% may be completed via transfer credits, course waivers, credit by examination, or other means.
