Fair Consumer Practices: Means honesty, fairness, and complete disclosure to students in the areas of recruitment, admissions, student financial assistance, obligations to repay student loans, placement assistance and job placement rates, advertising, refund policies, the meaning and recognition of different types of accreditation, and the transferability and recognition of the college’s credits to other colleges or employers.
Faith Based Institution: An educational institution whose instruction is based on a Supreme Being that is the Creator of the universe that established doctrinal tenets in the Holy Bible which provides wisdom, understanding, and direction for our daily living with assurance of a life hereafter. As stated by Martin Luther the reformer, the “Sola Scriptura” principle for living.
Fifth-Year Undergraduate: A student in the fifth year of a five-year bachelor’s degree program.
First Professional Student: A student enrolled in any of the following degree programs:
Dentistry (D.D.S. or D.M.D.); Medicine (M.D.); Veterinary Medicine (D.V.M.); Law (L.L.B. or J.D.); Pharmacy (Pharm. D.); Theology (M.Div. or M.H.L. or B.D.)
First-Time Freshman: An entering freshman, including the following, who has never attended any college,:
1. A student enrolled in the fall term who is attending college for the first time in the fall term or who attended for the first time in the prior summer term.
2. A student who entered with advanced standing due to college credits earned before graduation from high school, regardless of the number of credits earned.
3. A remedial student enrolled for the first-time.
First-Year Graduate Student: A student enrolled in a master degree program, regardless of the number of graduate credit hours completed; or a doctoral, specialist, or certificate of advanced graduate study student who has not completed more than thirty credit hours of graduate studies.
Florida Council of Private Colleges: An agency which represents its private, faith based educational institutions before any individual, private or government educational organization. The FCPC is an educational association that provides its members with experienced, educational, quality peer review. FCPC requires affirmation of compliance with the academic excellence standards of the FCPC patterned after our early historical U.S educational institutions of higher learning. FCPC standards equal or exceed the minimum standards of the State of Florida and many State Departments of Education. For faith based institutions that do not take government funds in the Florida, excluding: 1. VA benefits in the USA and 2. Institutions with U.S.D.E. recognized accreditation.For verification of all FCPC standards go to www.fcpc-edu.org.
Four-One-Four Plan: The 4-1-4 calendar consists of 4 courses taken for four months, 1 course taken for one month, and 4 courses taken for four months. There may be an additional summer session.
Freshman: An institutionally determined academic level typically based on the number of course credit hours a student has completed; the term generally indicates a student in the first year of a bachelor degree or occupational or technical program. Remedial students should be included if no separate category for remedial students is provided. In cases where first-time freshmen have earned sufficient credits before enrolment to be classified other than freshmen, guideline #2 of First-time freshman (see above) will prevail.
Full-Time Equivalent Day Students: The number of FTE students generated by classes with a beginning time between and including the hours of 7:00 a.m. to 5:59 p.m.
Full-time Equivalent Evening Students: The number of FTE students generated with a beginning time between and including the hours of 6:00 p.m. to 6:59 a.m.
Full-Time Equivalent Student (FTE): A statistic derived from the student-credit hour’s productivity of an institution. The number of FTE students in the fall term is obtained by dividing the total number of undergraduate, first professional, and graduate credit-hours per term by 15, 15, and 12 respectively. The number of FTE students in summer on-campus, annual off-campus, and regular session is obtained by dividing the total number of undergraduate, first professional, and graduate credit hours per session by 30, 30, and 24 respectively.
Full-time online institutions: Also called cyber or virtual institutions, work with students who are enrolled primarily (often only) in the online courses.
Full-Time Student: An undergraduate or first professional student enrolled for twelve or more credit hours in a semester or quarter, or a graduate student enrolled for nine or more credit hours in a semester or quarter. A semester credit hour is equivalent to 750 clock minutes of instruction; a quarter credit hours, to 500 clock minutes of instruction. The hours of instruction must be spread over no more than sixteen weeks.