opportunities, options, excellence - Red Rocks Community College
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Admissions and Advising Information<br />
Armed Forces Recruiting<br />
ROTC is offered in conjunction with<br />
Colorado School of Mines. For Armed<br />
Forces recruiting information and ROTC<br />
information, please call the Veteran Affairs<br />
Officer at 303.914.6353, or come to Room<br />
1200.<br />
Assessment Center<br />
<strong>Red</strong> <strong>Rocks</strong> <strong>Community</strong> <strong>College</strong> assesses the<br />
basic-skills proficiency of all new students<br />
who plan to enroll in courses leading to<br />
degrees or certificates. If you previously<br />
enrolled at the college while still attending<br />
high school, you are considered a new students<br />
when you enter the college after graduation.<br />
The COMPASS (Computerized<br />
Assessment) takes approximately two hours<br />
and is available free of charge on a walk-in,<br />
first-come, first-served basis. Test times are<br />
listed in the current schedule.<br />
You may satisfy assessment requirements<br />
by submitting qualifying ACT or SAT score<br />
reports to the Assessment Center, or by providing<br />
evidence of a college degree (twoyear<br />
or four-year).<br />
You must meet one of the assessment<br />
requirements described above to determine<br />
your need for basic skills remedial coursework<br />
and/or to determine appropriate course<br />
placement.<br />
Information: 303.914.6720<br />
Career Planning and<br />
Workplace Experience<br />
If you are planning for your first career, a<br />
career change, or want to enhance your<br />
existing job skills, <strong>Red</strong> <strong>Rocks</strong> Career<br />
Development specialists can help. Using<br />
career and personal interest inventories and<br />
computerized information, they can help<br />
you select what you need from among hundreds<br />
of <strong>options</strong>. They can also help you<br />
take advantage of <strong>Red</strong> <strong>Rocks</strong>’ Career<br />
Development Seminar and the Colorado<br />
Career Information System (COCIS).<br />
Finally, Career Development specialists can<br />
help with referrals through consultation with<br />
faculty and community resources as well as<br />
other colleges and universities.<br />
Information: 303.914.6255or 303.914.6258<br />
ESL/Foreign<br />
Language Lab<br />
The ESL/Foreign Language Lab offers CD-<br />
ROM, videotape and audio cassette materials<br />
to help students and staff learn 101<br />
world languages. Tutoring is available in<br />
Spanish, French, German, and English as a<br />
Second Language (ESL). The lab also maintains<br />
a resource library of world beat music<br />
CD’s, foreign-language movies with English<br />
subtitles, and the world news.<br />
Inter-institutional<br />
Registration<br />
Admissions can assist you with concurrent<br />
registration at the University of Colorado at<br />
Denver or Metropolitan State <strong>College</strong> of<br />
Denver. International students must meet the<br />
host institution’s English proficiency<br />
requirements.<br />
Information: 303.914.6356<br />
Readmission of<br />
Former Students<br />
If you are returning to <strong>Red</strong> <strong>Rocks</strong> after an<br />
absence of more than one year, you must<br />
apply for re-admission. If you have earned<br />
credit at another college in the interim and<br />
are pursuing a degree or certificate, you<br />
must also submit a transcript prior to your<br />
last semester. Registration is contingent<br />
upon receipt of all required documents,<br />
which become property of the college.<br />
Transcripts<br />
If you need your <strong>Red</strong> <strong>Rocks</strong> transcript to be<br />
forwarded to a third party, a Transcript<br />
Request form is available in Admissions.<br />
Students may request five free transcripts<br />
per semester. Extra transcripts can be purchased<br />
for $5 per copy. Transcripts will not<br />
be provided for students who have not fulfilled<br />
all financial obligations to the college.<br />
Information: 303.914.6352<br />
Transfer of Credits<br />
The Colorado <strong>Community</strong> <strong>College</strong> System<br />
launched a common course numbering and<br />
common competency project to improve<br />
student transfer and to ensure curriculum<br />
quality across our system. The project will<br />
not jeopardize student credit and transfer.<br />
Course numbers and competencies will be<br />
posted online at www.rightchoice.comand<br />
www.cterc.cccoes.edu/cccns as they are<br />
completed.<br />
1. Initial transcript evaluation is done in<br />
Student Records.Transcripts must be<br />
sent from a previous college to <strong>Red</strong><br />
<strong>Rocks</strong> <strong>Community</strong> <strong>College</strong>.<br />
2. Grade point average (GPA) from<br />
transfer institutions is not calculated<br />
into the <strong>Red</strong> <strong>Rocks</strong> <strong>Community</strong><br />
<strong>College</strong> GPA.<br />
3. The college reserves the right to validate<br />
and examine all credits to determine<br />
if they are obsolete. If so, you may<br />
be required to update the credit.<br />
4. The college will accept transfer credit<br />
only from post-secondary institutions<br />
accredited by one of the six regional<br />
accrediting associations.Credits earned<br />
in a Colorado community college that<br />
are applicable to a specific AAS degree<br />
or certificate will be accepted in an<br />
equivalent program.<br />
9 For the most current RRCC schedule and catalog information, visit our Web site at www.rrcc.edu
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