Policies & Procedures

Policy: 2005

The College is authorized to award degrees of associate in arts (AA), associate in science (AS), associate in applied science (AAS), associate in fine arts (AFA) and to award certificates and diplomas to students who have successfully completed the curriculum requirements of approved programs as established by the Board of Trustees and set forth in the College catalog.

The curriculum requirements for awarding degrees and certificates will conform to the standards established by the College, the New Jersey Commission on Higher Education, the Academic Issues Committee Manual of the New Jersey President’s Council, and New Jersey law and code.

The general education portion of all associate degrees and certificates will match the distributions and credit totals as set forth in the New Jersey Community College (NJCC) General Education Foundation guidelines.

College faculty serve as a review, advisory, and recommending body to the appropriate vice president in matters dealing with additions, modification, or deletions of credit courses and programs of study. The President or designee will regularly consult with faculty through the Faculty Senate Curriculum Council to ensure that the learning objectives of the general education program facilitate attainment of all NJCC learning goals and the general education foundation supports credit transfer as well as knowledge acquisition, skills mastery, critical thinking, and the exercise of personal, social, and civic responsibilities.

Administrative procedures have been developed for implementation of this policy.

References:

Rowan College of South Jersey Administrative Procedures, 2005 Educational Programs