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Course Essential
Course
Essentials
JIU Mission
To empower our students to create a more equitable future and provide them with the competencies to navigate a complex and ever-changing world.
JIU Vision
To be a life-transforming outlet through relevant skills-based education and foster innovation and leadership among racialized and historically underrepresented students.
JIU Values
Quality, Innovation, Collaboration,
Diversity, and Access.
fostering intellectual curiosity, advancing knowledge, and nurturing spiritual growth
prioritizing equality, justice, diversity, inclusivity, and empowerment
instilling values of social responsibility, community engagement, and ethical leadership, encouraging students to make positive contributions to society
promoting values that empower students to become agents of positive change in the world.
Our ability to create the ultimate student experience depends on the ability to “know” our students as learners through ever more sophisticated assessments and use of data. Once “known”, this information must be communicated and implemented to improve the overall experience.
The Juneteenth Intercontinental University community seeks to cultivate a community that respects and appreciates the dignity and uniqueness of all members, celebrating the unique gifts that each person brings. This is reflected in our teaching-learning process, as well as our entire campus climate. We intentionally engage diversity and inclusion to support the social and academic growth of our students by developing a curriculum that integrates diverse perspectives, experiences, and social justice, allowing all of us to expand our knowledge and put into practice these values within the framework of a diverse and inclusive society.
Link: https://www.nu.edu/s-jedi/
Planning Your Time
With JIU's faculty-mentored approach, credit hours are earned in a course through your interaction with your faculty member, your contact with course-specific content, your assignments, and other asynchronous activities. During your attendance, you can expect to dedicate between 135 and 144 hours for each 3-credit course. Make sure you give yourself enough time each week to complete the necessary work involved in this course.
Attendance and Course Participation
Academic-Related Activities (ARAs) are
used to determine a student’s official last date of attendance and
corresponding enrollment status at the University. ARAs are also used to
determine the effective date of active and withdrawn enrollment statuses. Academic-Related
activities in your online course include:
Viewing new content in a course.
Submitting an item to Dropbox.
Taking a quiz.
Posting to a discussion board.
NOTE: Academic
related activities must be posted to an online course no later than Sunday at 11:59
P.M. Arizona time each week to be counted for attendance verification.
If you are unable to participate in your course, contact your Academic and
Finance Advisor regarding advice about consequences of withdrawing from your
course.
Assignment Submissions
The use of the JIU Cover Sheet is
optional. If your faculty member asks you to use the Cover Sheet, you can
submit it as a separate document or insert it in the existing document prior to
the APA formatted title page. The cover sheet is located under your University
Services Module > University Documents.
The use of the APA formatted title page is mandatory. Information on APA style
and format also can be found in the ASC under the APA Style CENTRAL link.
The paper should also include the assignment header, which should include your
last name, first initial, course code, dash, and assignment number
(DoeJXXX0000-1 – no spaces between characters) justified to the left and the
page number justified to the right.
Files may be submitted in various formats (Word, EXCEL PowerPoint, PDF etc.) or
in the program that the assignment requires. Faculty may request resubmission
of an assignment using a different file format or program if they cannot access
a submitted assignment. In the event that the student is unable to submit the
assignment to the faculty member on the date due through any of the above
referenced methods because of computer problems, the student is required to
email the assignment to the faculty on or before the assignment due date. In
such cases, the student should also communicate with the professor to inform of
the assignment transmission.
National University has adopted the APA format as the style guide for all
coursework. Students are expected to follow APA style when completing
assignments, unless instructed otherwise. Although the APA style does not apply
to syllabi, NU attempts to adhere to the style in its syllabi within technical
limitations.
Faculty has the discretion to allow and request resubmission of any assignment,
with these stipulations: Comprehensive Exam courses are excluded; graded
assignments with objectively correct answers (e.g., statistics assignments) may
not be resubmitted; the policy that assignments may not be submitted after a
course end date may not be violated. Students may decline to resubmit
assignments. Faculty cannot request resubmissions in cases of suspected
academic integrity violations.
Recommended Schedule for Course
Completion
You may submit assignments early, but
the required due date must be met. Coursework may not be submitted before a
course start date. In addition, coursework should not be accepted after the
course end date and/or approved course extension end date. Submitting
assignments in the order assigned and reviewing faculty feedback before
completing the next assignment ensures progress according to academic standards
and follows the design of the course.
Bulk Loading
The University defines “bulk loading”
as submitting subsequent or multiple assignments before receiving feedback on a
current assignment. Bulk loading assignments is discouraged as you do not have
the opportunity to process and incorporate your faculty member’s feedback in
subsequent assignments; however, the University understands that in some
circumstances “bulk loading” may be necessary (e.g., military deployment, late
grading and feedback, etc.). You are encouraged to work with your faculty
member to determine if and when “bulk loading” assignments is appropriate.
Submitting Late Assignments
Each assignment’s due date must be met.
Assignments submitted after the original deadline will be considered late, and
graded according to your faculty member's late grading policy. Assignments
submitted 7 or more days beyond the original due date will not be accepted.
For late assignments submitted prior to this deadline, faculty may establish
their own guidelines for acceptance and grading penalties for late work. You
are encouraged to contact your faculty member if you are unable to meet an
assignment due date.
Submittal Turn-around Schedule
Faculty have 4 days from the assignment
due date to grade and return assignments. If an assignment is submitted early,
the faculty may return it before the required return date, but they have 4 days
from the assignment due date to return feedback. If an assignment is submitted
late, faculty have 4 days from the date of submission to grade and return the
assignment. If, for whatever reason, the faculty member does not return the
assignment within 4 days, a student can submit the next assignment to maintain
the assignment due date requirement. Other than these circumstances, students
are discouraged from bulk uploading assignments. Some courses may have
exceptions; faculty is encouraged to work with students to determine if and
when bulk-loading assignments is appropriate. Therefore, it is important to
read all course syllabi and assignments carefully.
Academic Integrity
Academic integrity includes the
commitment to the values of honesty, trust, fairness, respect, and
responsibility. Appropriate credit of others for the scientific work and ideas
applies to all forms of scholarship, not just publications. The submission of
another person’s work represented as that of the student’s without properly
citing the source of the work will be considered plagiarism and will result in
an unsatisfactory grade for the work submitted or for the entire course, and
may result in academic dismissal. Assignments will be submitted to TurnItIn.com
for originality evaluation.
Self-plagiarism is the act of presenting one’s previously used work as an
original work. Self-plagiarism is inconsistent with honesty and truthfulness in
scholarship. National University faculty and students should discuss the
expectations of each assignment at the beginning of the class. There should be
a clear understanding between the faculty member and student regarding the use
of previous work in the class. The faculty member must indicate if the
student’s response must be an original work or if the student may use previous
work in their response to a new assignment.
