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Office. Ohio law requires the Registrar’s Office toverify that eligible students have registered inorder for those students to receive various stateeducational benefits. The law provides that studentswho fail to certify their compliance with SelectiveService registration requirements are ineligiblefor state financial aid programs and are assessed apenalty equivalent to the difference between instateand out-of-state tuition and fees.SERVICE LEARNINGService-Learning (S-L) is a specially designedlearning experience in which students combinereflection with structured participation incommunity-based projects to achieve specifiedlearning outcomes as part of an academic courseand/or program requirement. By participating inService Learning partnerships at the local, nationalor international level, students gain a richermastery of course content, enhance their senseof civic responsibility and ultimately develop amore integrated approach to understanding therelationship between theory, practice, ideas, valuesand community.The Division of Professional Practice and ExperientialLearning administers the Service Learning Program.Contact the Center for Service Learning and CivicEngagement by email (SL@uc.edu), by telephone(513.556.1533) or by visiting the Center’s website(www.uc.edu/SL).STUDENT CLASSIFICATIONStudents are classified as Freshmen, Sophomores,etc. based upon the number of cumulative credithours earned at the University of Cincinnati pluscredit hours accepted as Advanced Standing creditsresulting from courses completed and acceptedupon transfer to the University of Cincinnati.Included also are credit hours awarded by theUniversity of Cincinnati based upon AdvancedPlacement examination scores, CLEP scores andcertain types of other experiences that are equatedto credit hours by individual evaluation.TRANSCRIPTSIn accordance with federal law (i.e., the FamilyEducational Rights and Privacy Act of 1974, knownas FERPA), UC will release the student’s educationalrecords (including the official transcript to thirdparties only with the student’s written authorizationor under the exceptions specified by FERPA. Foradditional FERPA information, consult the Registrar’sOffice website at http://www.uc.edu/registrar/FERPA_and_records_privacy.html. Requests fortranscripts may be made in person at the One StopStudent Service Center (University Pavilion, 2ndfloor) from the One Stop Student Services website athttp:// onestop.uc.edu or from the Registrar’s Officewebsite at http://www.uc.edu/registrar/record_services/transcript_ordering.html.The processing fee for an official transcript is $6per transcript. No charge will be assessed for atranscript that the student requests be sent to oneof the University of Cincinnati colleges. Studentsthemselves will not be provided with these oncampustranscripts. Requests for transcripts areprocessed as promptly as possible; however, as muchas two weeks may be required during peak periods.Note: the processing fee for an official transcript issubject to change. Consult the Registrar’s Officewebsite for current transcript fee information.TRANSFER AND LIFELONG LEARNING CENTERThe Transfer and Lifelong Learning Center servesundergraduate students and adults who transfer tothe University of Cincinnati from other colleges anduniversities, as well as non-degree seeking studentswho wish to take a class. The Center’s advising staffsupports students through the transfer process,including issues of transferring credit from theirformer institutions, working though the admissionsprocess and making referrals to academic advising,financial aid, career development, orientation andeducational support services. The Center is locatedon the fourth floor of the University Pavilion and isopen Monday through Friday from 8:00 a.m. to 5:00p.m. Contact the Center at 513-556-2247 or by e-mailat transfer@uc.edu.54