Parellel Instruction- TERMINOLOGY

A method in which nonresident students do exactly the same work as residential students, during the same general time period, except they do it at home


Pass/Fail options- where the student can decide to take a grade or a P/S  in the grading process


Mentor: a faculty member assigned to supervise independent study work at a nontraditiona school comparable to "adjunct faculty"


Adjunct facultypart time faculty members, often at a nontraditional school, often with a full time teaching job elsewhere. more and more traditonal schools are hiring adjunct faculty because they don't have to pay them as much or provide health care and other benefits. (outsourcing by a company)


Assistantship a means of assisting students usually graduate students financially by offering them part time academic employment ususall in the form of a teaching assistantship or a research assistantship.


TAXES TAXES TAXES


maintenance costs: the expenses incurred while attending school other than tuition and fees. Includes room and board, food, clothing, laundry, postage, travel, etc..


MULTIVESITY


A UNIVERSITY SYSTEM WITH TWO OR MORE SEPARATE CAMUSES, EACH A MAJOR UNIVERSITY IN ITS OWN RIGHT, SUCH AS THE UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA OR THE UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN.


liberal education students take a variety of courses as opposed to specialized courses, a requirement

learning contract: agreement between the student and the school

"on the job" slang in England for having sex- but this term means training experience, experiential training credit

rolling admissions-n year round admission procedure.

open admissions everyone who applies is admitted