HMC
Glossary
- 5-C Five College; the five undergraduate Claremont Colleges—CMC, HMC, Pitzer, Pomona and Scripps.
- AB Appeals Board
- ASHMC Associated Students of Harvey Mudd College
- BK Beckman Hall
- CAL-OSHA California Occupational Safety and Health Administration
- CampSec Campus Safety
- CGU Claremont Graduate University
- Clinic Program, Clinic A program founded by HMC that challenges upperclassmen with problems from industry, giving real-world experience to HMC students.
- CMC Claremont McKenna College
- CMS Claremont-Mudd-Scripps
- Collage The Claremont Colleges student newspaper
- CORE courses Core Curriculum courses
- CS Computer Science
- CUC Claremont University Consortium
- DAC Dormitory Affairs Committee
- DB Disciplinary Board
- DCC Department Chairs Committee
- DOF Dean of the Faculty
- DOS Dean of Students Office
- DORL Dean of Residential Life
- Drop a class To disenroll in the class. The class will not appear on the student’s transcript.
- F&M Office of Facilities and Maintenance
- FERPA The U.S. Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act
- Full-time Student Student taking classes totaling at least 12.0 units of credit for the semester.
- GA Galileo Hall
- Galileo Society An organization of area residents who participate in HMC activities.
- GPA Grade Point Average
- Grading type for a class Grading method for a class, such as letter grade, pass/fail grade or pass/no credit grade.
- HB Honor Board
- HICC Horizontally Integrated Core Curriculum
- HMC Harvey Mudd College
- HSS Humanities and Social Sciences
- IE course Integrative Experience course
- ILA Involuntary Leave of Absence
- IPS Individual Program of Studies
- ITR Ineligible to Re-register
- JA Jacobs Science Center
- JB Judiciary Board
- JP course Joint PE (CMC, HMC, Scripps) course
- JM course Joint Music course
- JS course Joint Science course
- JT course Course jointly taught by professors from more than one college.
- KE W.M. Keck Laboratories Building
- KG or KGI Keck Graduate Institute of Applied Life Sciences
- LAC Linde Activities Center
- Last day to add The last day of a semester for a student to add a class to their schedule without petitioning the Scholarly Standing Committee for permission.
- Last day to drop The last day of a semester for a student to drop a class from their schedule without petitioning the Scholarly Standing Committee for permission.
- Libra Complex The underground complex housing most of the academic resources of the campus.
- LOA Leave of Absence
- Mudd Blotter Semi-weekly HMC security announcements
- OCM Off Campus Major
- OID Office of Institutional Diversity
- ON F.W. Olin Science Center
- PA Parsons Engineering Building
- PL Joseph B. Platt Campus Center
- PO Pomona College
- PTS Program of Transfer Studies
- PZ Pitzer College
- SC Scripps College
- SP Norman F. Sprague Memorial Library
- Spectrum HMC student yearbook
- SSC Scholarly Standing Committee
- student-l All campus student e-mail list
- TG Thomas-Garrett Hall
- Transcript, official An official listing of the classes, grades and academic honors for a student. The document is produced on special tamperproof paper, is signed by the college Registrar, bears the official college seal, and is contained in a sealed envelope with a stamp across the envelope flap.
- Transcript, unofficial An unofficial listing of the classes, grades and academic honors for a student. The listing is produced on standard paper without the verification by the college Registrar indicated.
- Withdraw (from a class) To disenroll in the class after the Last Day to Drop. The course will appear on the student’s transcript with a grade of “W.”
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