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University of Maine at Presque Isle - Student Handbook Page 1 of 41 Prospective Students Current Students Alumni & Friends Faculty & Home Student Life Student Life Student Handbook Dean of Students TABLE OF CONTENTS Advising Center ACADEMIC ACCOMODATIONS Bookstore PURPOSE STATEMENT - Student Services Career Services Counseling Center ACADEMIC CALENDAR Dining SECTION ONE: STUDENT SERVICES AND ACTIVITIES: Health Services Student Life Services: International Students • Admissions Residence Life • Advising Center Safety and Security • Bookstore • Career Services Student Activities • Counseling Student Exchange • Financial Aid • Health Center Services Student Organizations • Student Accident and Sickness Insurance Student Support Services • ID Cards Testing Services • International Student Services • Mail Services Center/Communications Center • Owl's Nest Snack Bar • Presque Isle Student Ministries (PrISM) • Student Support Services http://www.umpi.edu/student -life/844 -student -handbook 5/19/2010 University of Maine at Presque Isle - Student Handbook Page 2 of 41 • Vehicle Registration on Campus Library - UMaine-Presque Isle Computer Services ATHLETIC PROGRAMS, RECREATIONAL SPORTS AND FITNESS CENTER SERVICES • Varsity Athletic Programs • Recreational Sports Intramurals • Community Recreation • Swimming • Ice Skating • Downhill Skiing • Cross Country Skiing • Club Sports • Fitness Center • Weight Rooms • Aerobics ACTIVITIES AND ORGANIZATIONS ARTS & CULTURAL ACTIVITIES SECTION TWO: UNIVERSITY POLICIES: 1. Residence Halls 2. Limited Tobacco-Use Policy 3. Meal Plan for Resident Students 4. Financial Appeal Process 5. Campus Security 6. Traffic and Parking 7. Storm Policy and Class Cancellations 8. Student Organizations Registration and Renewal 9. Solicitation on Campus 10 . Equal Opportunity 11 . Students with Disabilities 12 . Sexual Harassment and Consenting Relationships 13 . Sexual Assault and Forced Sexual Contact 14 . Alcohol and Substance Abuse 15 . Registration of Events Involving Alcohol 16 . Student Complaints or Grievances 17 . Human Subjects Research Activities (IRB) 18 . Financial Aid: Satisfactory Academic Progress Policy 19 . Student Academic Integrity Policy 20 . Conduct Code - University of Maine System SECTION THREE: ACADEMIC ADVISING SUPPLEMENT: • Introduction http://www.umpi.edu/student -life/844 -student -handbook 5/19/2010 University of Maine at Presque Isle - Student Handbook Page 3 of 41 • Procedure • The Role of the Advisor and Advisee • Program of Basic Studies • General Education Core • Time Management • Career Advising • Transfer Students • Registrar • Pass/Fail Option • Academic Probation • Academic Suspension • Academic Dismissal • Early Warning System • Academic Forgiveness Policy • Leave of Absence, Withdrawal from University, Emergencies • In Conclusion ACADEMIC ACCOMODATIONS See the Student Support Services Home Page and check out the Accomodations have a disability and require academic accommodations. Return to top PURPOSE STATEMENT - Student Services University of Maine at Presque Isle The Division of Student Services at the University of Maine at Presque Isle has the following three primary functions: 1) supporting the curricular mission, 2) leading in the the cocurriculum, and 3) contributing to an enhanced sense of campus community. The Division has a vital supporting role in the curricular mission of the University. Students do best scholastically if they are emotionally, academically, and physically ready to take on the challenges of college. The Division's offices are dedicated to helping students attain that readiness. Through its Upward Bound Program, the Division supports at-risk high school sophomores, juniors and seniors. The purpose of Upward Bound is to prepare those students for success in higher education. The Program also tracks its graduates following their matriculation at colleges and universities. The Student Services Division supports emotional readiness. Students with short term personal problems (including, but certainly not limited to, loneliness, relationship issues, insecurity and other stressors) need counseling when - if not before - those issues become so overwhelming that classroom performance is adversely affected. Faculty and staff to whom troubled students turn, frequently either seek the advice or make referrals, to a therapist. The Counseling Center meets those and other demands. Student Services Division supports physical readiness. Clearly, healthy students are more likely to attend classes and retain more than ill students. Students, whose behaviors place them at either immediate or long-term physical danger, may not meet their obligations to http://www.umpi.edu/student -life/844 -student -handbook 5/19/2010 University of Maine at Presque Isle - Student Handbook Page 4 of 41 themselves or to the larger community, which has invested in their education. Student Health Services promotes wellness and tends to illnesses so students can perform optimally while school and afterwards. The Division of Student Services through Office of Student Support Services assists eligible students in addressing academic and personal developmental needs through tutoring, counseling, orientation, assessment testing, tutoring, and a range of other support services. While having a supporting role in the curriculum, the Division has the primary role in development of the cocurriculum. The cocurriculum consists of structured and learning that occurs outside of the classroom. Because students are in classrooms only 15 to 20 hours a week, the greatest opportunities to influence student learning are within the cocurriculum. Even if the traditional prescription of two hours of study for every hour in class were universally followed, there remains ample additional time during which students will experience a range of learning stimuli. The role of the Division of Student influence and shape those stimuli in healthy directions. Lifelong lessons in areas such as planning, negotiation, intra personal skills, healthy lifestyles, cooperation, conflict resolution, organization, time management and cross cultural understandings are best taught through involvement in organizations and clubs, volunteer work, part-time jobs, residence hall living, food service operations, student activities, non-credit workshops and seminars, programs, and other experiences beyond classroom confines. Therefore, University must constantly enrich the cocurricular options for students. Finally, the Division of Student Services has a contributing role to the development of an enhanced sense of campus community within and among campus constituencies. All colleges and universities regardless of size, budget, or tradition, are subject to centrifugal forces that pull them into separate and lesser components. The personnel in the Division should extol and support those activities (e.g. art, athletics, musical performances, and already in place, which further a sense of community as well as develop and promote additional ones. Return to top ACADEMIC CALENDAR The development of the University academic calendar is the responsibility of the University Senate. The calendar is developed through subcommittees of the Senate and voted on in the Spring Semester. For more information regarding the calendar, you should direct your questions to the Office of the Registrar (768-7540). The Academic Calendar is available online . Please note that this page will open window. Return to top STUDENT SERVICES AND ACTIVITIES: STUDENT LIFE SERVICES: ADMISSIONS OFFICE The Office of Admissions supports academic readiness. The Office seeks to enroll qualified students with diverse interests, talents, and experiences that will benefit from http://www.umpi.edu/student -life/844 -student -handbook 5/19/2010 University of Maine at Presque Isle - Student Handbook Page 5 of 41 to the educational mission of the University of Maine at Presque Isle. As a consequence of its mission, some under prepared and other at-risk students are among the students admitted to the institution. Call 768-9532 to reach the Admissions Office. ADVISING CENTER The Advising Center assists students with advising or degree program questions, students are assigned to faculty advisors, facilitates changes of major and/or advisor, advises undecided and liberal studies students, and coordinates the placement testing program, new student advising and registration; the Peer Advising program, and the Program of Basic Studies. The Director of the Center is Ms. Lorelei Locke. Her phone number is BOOKSTORE The Bookstore is located in the Campus Center. It is open during regular business hours, Monday through Friday from 8:00 - 4:30 PM. It is open additional hours during the first week of each semester. The Bookstore Manager is Mrs. Peggy Smythe and the Assistant is Mr. Doug Pelkey. In addition to a complete inventory of required texts, the Bookstore features a line of quality UMPI clothing and other designer-logo casual and athletic clothing. It also stocks a wide variety of study and writing materials, computer software available (can be special ordered), notebooks of all kinds, leisure reading, snack food, as well as personal toiletries. The Bookstore also features a best-seller and trade book section. Telephone No.: 768-9572 CAREER SERVICES Career Services plays an integral role in your education. Through a number of services and programs, Career Services can help you develop your career goals. You can define career goals through interest inventories, counseling, and directed readings.