Academic Policies
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About Academic Policies
Historically, the Campus Administrative Manual (CAM) contained policies that were administrative or academic. When CAM was revised to Campus Administrative Policy (CAP), a decision was made to separate the administrative from the academic. CAP would ideally contain policies that were truly administrative. Academic policies deriving from Title 5, CSU executive orders or coded memos, and Academic Senate resolutions would reside here on the Academic Programs and Planning website.
For convenience’s sake, academic policies that still exist in CAP are linked directly from this page to CAP.
- Academic Calendar (CAP 200)
- Academic Dishonesty — see Cheating and Plagiarism
- Academic Graduate Certificate Programs
- Academic Petition Appeals
- Academic Records (CAP 230)
- Accreditation
- Add / Drop Classes
- Advanced Placement Credit
- American Institutions Requirement (Title 5, Section 40404)
- Articulation/ASSIST
- BA/BS Difference
- Baccaluareate Degree Requirements
- Baccalaureate Programs (units, major, support)
- Blended Degree Programs
- California Promise Program
- Cal Poly Mission Statement
- Cal Poly Statements on
- Campus Administrative Policies (CAP)
(see note regarding Campus Administrative Manual) - Centers and Institutes (CAP 262)
- Change of Major
- Cheating and Plagiarism
- Choice of Catalog
- Class Attendance
- Class Scheduling (CAP 280)
- Commencement
- Concentrations (Undergraduate)
- Consumer Protection and Complaints
- Cooperative Education
- Course Classification (C/S#)
- Course Inactivating / Reactivating
- Course Learning Objectives
- Course Numbers
- Course Syllabi
- Credit Hour
- Credit/No Credit Grading
- Cross-Disciplinary Studies Minor
- Crosslisted Courses
- Degrees Awarded by Cal Poly
- Department Name Change
- Directory for Faculty and Staff
- Discontinuance of an Academic Program
- Diversity Learning Objectives
- Electives
- eLearning (Please see the "Online Teaching and Learning" policy)
- Exceptions to Scheduling Class Time Conflicts
- Fairness Board (grade appeals)
- Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act (FERPA) (CAP 231.2)
- Field Trip Policy
- Final Assessments (Exams)
- Five-Year Degree Programs
- Four-Unit Course Standard
- Inactivating and Reactivating Courses
- Incomplete (I) Agreement
- Intellectual Property (CAP 263)
- Intercollegiate Athletics (CAP 250)
- Internships
- Master's Degree Programs (General Requirements)
- Matriculated Student
- Minors
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- Repeating Courses
- Reorganization of Academic Programs/Academic Units
- Research (CAP 261)
- Retention of Exams, Graded Coursework, and Gradebook
- Review of Courses with Condensed Time Schedules
- Scheduling of Classes (CAP 280)
- Scheduling of Online Assessments
- Selected Topics Courses (e.g., 270, 470, 471, 570, 571)
- Senior Project
- Student Health and Safety Training Program (pdf)
- Substantive Change
- Suspension of Programs
- Sustainability Learning Objectives
- Sustainability Practices
- Temporary Adoption of a Three-Year Catalog (2022-2025)
- Time to Obtain a Degree
- Timely Accessibility of Instructional Materials
- Topic Courses