GCC MISSION STATEMENT

https://www.glendale.edu/about-gcc/gcc-overview/mission-statement-objectives-and-functions

Glendale Community College is a public community college granting certificates and associate degrees. The college serves people from a variety of geographical areas but primarily serves a diverse population of the Greater Los Angeles region that is capable of benefiting from instruction in credit, noncredit, and community education programs.

Glendale Community College exists to ensure students identify their educational goals and needs and successfully accomplish student learning in the following broad educational areas:

• Basic skills education to achieve basic foundation skills in reading, writing, mathematics, English as a Second Language, and learning and study skills which are necessary for students to succeed in college-level work.

• Lower division post-secondary education to achieve transfer to and success in obtaining a degree at a college or university.

• Career and technical education to achieve employment or enhanced career skills for job advancement.

• General education to achieve knowledge, skills and attitudes for postsecondary education success, personal enrichment, self-development, and a purposeful and meaningful life as a member of a global community.

GCC VISION STATEMENT

https://www.glendale.edu/about-gcc/gcc-overview/mission-statement-objectives-and-functions

Glendale Community College is the Greater Los Angeles Region’s premier learning community where all students achieve their informed educational goals through outstanding instructional and student services, a comprehensive community college curriculum, and educational opportunities found in few community colleges.

Values

1. The college's primary focus is to address students’ needs, augmented by its commitment to diversity, inclusion, and equity.
   
   

2. The college ensures wide participation in governance and decision making
   
   

3. The college promotes rigor, educational quality, and innovation by constantly evaluating and improving its operations, programs, and outcomes.
   
   

4. The college responsibly seeks funding and allocates its budgets with transparency to support its educational mission.
   
   

5. As part of its mission, Glendale Community College is committed to student success by promoting:

   • communication, critical thinking, information competency, quantitative reasoning, global awareness, and personal responsibility;

   • collaboration among disciplines and openness to the diversity of the human experience;

   • student services, learning support, and state of the art technology, including distance education modalities, that enable students to reach their educational goals in an efficient and timely manner.

THE PURPOSE OF DUAL ENROLLMENT

https://www.glendale.edu/students/student-services/sos-outreach/high-school

The Dual Enrollment Program at Glendale Community College provides an opportunity for qualified high school students to enhance their education by enrolling early in college courses. You will be able to experience college-level courses, explore career options, and shorten the time required to complete a college degree. You have the opportunity to earn high school and college credit simultaneously. The courses may be reflected on both your high school and college transcripts.

MATH & ENGLISH PLACEMENT

https://www.glendale.edu/students/student-services/assessment-test-center

All students at GCC are eligible to enroll directly in transfer-level math and English courses.  

For English, if you have a diploma from a U.S. high school, or the classes where you were educated were taught in English, we believe you’re ready for either English 101 or English 101+.  Both are transfer-level courses and 101+ is recommended for students with a high school GPA under 2.6 overall. Learn more about your English options by clicking here.

For Math, all students, including those with high school GPA, or coursework history below minimum placement criteria are placed into transfer-level Math 135, 136A, or Math 138 (for students going into elementary education).  These courses are foundational to the SLAM pathway. 

One semester SLAM (Statistics, Liberal Arts Math) courses (Math 136 and 136+) and BSTEM (Business, Science, Technology, Engineering, Math) course options are provided upon completion of the GPS.  Click here for the Math GPS.

Learn more about your Math options by clicking here.

For ESL, if you do not have a U.S. high school diploma, you are an international student (F1 visa), or adult immigrant, or a refugee, and you are still learning English, click on the link to take the GCC ESL Guided Placement Survey to select the best level for you. We recommend that you then speak with a counselor to choose the best ESL course options.   

TAKING CLASSES ON CAMPUS

https://www.glendale.edu/students/return-campus-students

Electing to take classes on the Glendale Community College campus provides students the opportunity to experience a college environment.

• Students are responsible for providing their own transportation to campus

• Glendale has small class sizes, attentive faculty and staff, and student-centered support services to facilitate student success

• Students are strongly encouraged to visit campus before classes start

• It is important that you know the campus locations, parking facilities, and class locations

• Students taking classes at GCC must follow the Academic Calendar. Holidays and breaks at GCC may be different from your high school

• View the Academic Calendar at glendale.edu/calendar

• Students must respect the rules of the academic environment

ATTENDANCE AND DROP POLICY

Students are expected to attend all class meetings. There are no authorized absences from class and irregular attendance may result in exclusion from classes. It is the student’s responsibility to register properly for classes. A student who fails to enroll officially in a class will not be given credit for that class. Students also have the responsibility of officially withdrawing from college or dropping from class when they stop attending, and of observing established deadlines. Otherwise, “F’’ grades may be assigned. It is the responsibility of each student to know the attendance and absence policy of each class in which he or she is enrolled. It is the responsibility of each instructor to inform his or her class of the attendance and absence policies at the beginning of each semester.

WITHDRAWAL/COURSE DROP

https://www.glendale.edu/students/admissions-records/session-dates-deadlines

If a student is planning on dropping or withdrawing from a class they need to log in to the myGCC portal and drop it themselves. They are responsible for dropping their class by the drop deadline. Their parents or counselor is not responsible for them not dropping the class. Students are encouraged to check what date they are eligible to drop their classes.

Once enrolled in courses, students are not considered dropped or withdrawn unless:

• They have dropped the course Online via MyGCC

• They have dropped the course with an Add/Drop form in person at the Admissions & Records Office. A grade of “W” will not be made on the permanent academic record of a student who drops or is dropped from the course or from college.

• During the first two weeks of a semester-length course;

• During the first week of a course which is at least five weeks in length and less than a semester in length

• During the first 20% of a course which is less than five weeks in length

Students who drop or are dropped from semester-length courses after the second week and prior to the end of the 12th week will receive grades of “W” on their permanent academic records. In order to receive a grade of “W” in a five-week summer/ winter session course, a student must drop by the end of the third week, and by the end of the fourth week for a six-week summer/winter session class. Any courses of duration not listed above adhere to a pro-rata schedule for deadlines. A student must drop a course during the period stated to not receive a withdrawal notation (W). There are no extenuating circumstances to remove a “W” from a student record. If circumstances occur after the final drop date to receive a “W”, the student may petition (see page 48 of this section). Extenuating circumstances are verified cases of accident, illness or other circumstances beyond the control of the student. Such withdrawals or drops shall be recorded as a “W”. Students not dropped or withdrawn from courses during the periods and circumstances described above will not be eligible for a notation of “W” and must be assigned a letter grade in the “A” through “F” category, or “P/NP” in those courses so designated.

How to Add/Search for Classes

How to Drop Classes

GRADES/GRADING SYSTEM

The standing of students in each course will be determined by classwork and examinations. Grades will be reported and grade points allowed as follow:

A–Excellent 4 grade points per unit

B–Good 3 grade points per unit

C–Satisfactory 2 grade points per unit 

D–Less than satisfactory 1 grade point per unit

F–Failing 0 grade points (cannot be removed by examination

P - Pass (at least satisfactory—units awarded, not counted in GPA)

NP- No Pass (less than satisfactory or failing—units not awarded in GPA but included in the computation of progress probation)

Course grades are posted on the student's MyGCC student portal. 

Grievance Procedures

This procedure provides a means of resolving a student’s dispute of an academic decision (such as temporary removal from a lab or classroom setting) or the assigned final grade for a course. A student has the right initially to an informal review and explanation of his or her grade by the instructor who in turn is obligated to provide such a review. However, a student may only appeal a grade or academic decision if he or she is prepared to carry the burden of proving one or more of the following conditions as specified by law: a mistake in the assignment of the grade or in the process of its recording, fraud, bad faith, or incompetence.

To review GCC’s entire Grievance Procedures, you can visit our website designated for students here.

EVALUATION OF FACULTY

https://www.glendale.edu/about-gcc/faculty-and-staff/adjunct-faculty/instructor-evaluation

All students are asked to evaluate their professors each semester. This evaluation also includes Dual Enrollment teachers who teach at the high schools. Students complete the evaluations online. The instructions are emailed to their Glendale College email account. It is important that students access their Glendale College email accounts regularly for important information.

ACADEMIC HONESTY POLICY

https://www.glendale.edu/students/student-policies/academic-honesty-policy

College study is the process of acquainting students with values and procedures central to scholarship. All students are expected to do their own work. All forms of cheating and plagiarism are absolutely forbidden. This is the official policy of Glendale Community College. 

The following behaviors serve as an operational description of student violations of academic honesty:  

1. The student takes or copies answers from another student or source or uses unauthorized materials during a test. 

2. The student turns in an assignment (labs, art projects, homework, prewritten or purchased papers, or work downloaded from the Internet) which is not his/her own. 

3. The student uses words or ideas which are not his/her own without acknowledgment of the source (plagiarism). 

4. The student knowingly deceives an instructor with the intent to improve his/her standing in class. 

5. The student submits the same paper or project previously submitted in another class without the permission of the current instructor. 

6. The student depends upon tools or assistance prohibited by the instructor in writing papers, preparing reports, solving problems, or carrying out other assignments. 

7. The student acquires, without permission, tests or other academic materials belonging to a member of the GCC faculty or staff. 

When a student engages in academic dishonesty, faculty have the option of requiring the student to see a college counselor, and/or assigning a lower grade, including an F or 0 on the assignment in question. (AR 5501)

Violations of this policy will be reported to the Vice President of Instruction and will become part of the Glendale College Cheating Incident file unless the instructor finds compelling reasons not to report a violation. The Executive Vice President of Instruction may then impose sanctions authorized by Administrative Regulation 5420. The sanctions include but are not limited to, issuing a reprimand, suspending the student for up to ten days of instruction, and/or requesting a hearing by the Campus Judicial Board to see if the student should be suspended, or permanently expelled from the college. 

The student has the right to due process for all the above sanctions.

STUDENT CONDUCT

https://www.glendale.edu/students/student-policies/student-conduct-policy

The Standards of Student Conduct provide a prompt and equitable means to address alleged student violations of the college’s behavioral regulations. Students who violate college policies and behavioral regulations shall be subject to the disciplinary procedures outlined in the Standards of Student Conduct, GCC Administrative Regulation 5500. These procedures are not intended to substitute for criminal or civil proceedings that may be initiated by other agencies.

Prohibited conduct that may subject a student to disciplinary sanctions includes, but is not limited to the following: Any student found to have committed an act of misconduct including, but not limited to, the following behaviors are subject to disciplinary sanctions as outlined in GCC Administrative Regulation 5520. For a full list of behaviors that shall constitute a good cause for discipline, please refer to GCC’s Student Conduct Policy.

Authorized disciplinary sanctions for violations of student behavioral regulations include, but are not limited to written reprimand, loss of privileges, restitution, temporary removal from class, suspension, and/or permanent expulsion. The college administers these sanctions through the Standards of Student Conduct and provides involved students with their due process rights guaranteed by State and Federal constitutional protections. Copies of the Standards of Student Conduct are available in the Student Affairs Office located in the J.W. Smith Student Center or from the GCC website.

STUDENT SUPPORT SERVICES

The Welcome Center

The Welcome Center serves as an information hub for current and prospective students. Welcome Center staff are available to help students apply for admission, register for classes, access college resources, navigate the campus, and connect with GCC.

Located in the Sierra Madre Building (SM266)

Contact: (818) 240-1000 ext. 4767 or WelcomeCenter@glendale.edu

Library

Our mission is to give students the information skills they need to be successful at Glendale College as well as in upper-division courses, in the job market, and as information consumers and creators throughout their lives.

As reference librarians, we are here to help students learn to use the library’s information resources, whether within or beyond its “invisible walls.”

Center For Students With Disabilities

The CSD provides a comprehensive spectrum of services and accommodations, including the following: academic and personal counseling, disability assessment, adapted computer, technology and instruction, academic support and instruction, alternate media, adapted physical education, interpreter and note-taking services, information and assistance to faculty collaboration with Department of Rehabilitation mobility assistance. Eligibility Requirements: Verification of disability.

Bookstore

The college bookstore, located on the first floor of the Student Center uses its proceeds to promote the programs of the Associated Students. Shopping for course materials is convenient and available both in-store and online. Now available, Rental and Digital programs! 

The college bookstore is located on the first floor of the Student Center. (818) 242-1561

Career Center

The GCC Career Center assists students to choose a major or course of study early in their educational experience. Students are facilitated in the career exploration process by the administration of comprehensive standardized inventories, surveys, computerized systems, and career tests. Students are assisted in exploring their values, interests, and abilities for application to the world of work. The staff provides individualized career counseling, workshops, and career exploration classes.

Health Center

The Health Center provides first aid, primary health care, crisis counseling, health counseling, and health information and referral services

The Learning Center

Located in AD 232, recognizes the complex needs of our diverse student population in both academic and occupational programs. In cooperation with faculty and staff, the Learning Center supports student success by encouraging a variety of learning strategies, elevating students’ confidence, and empowering students to achieve their highest potential. Direct students to this service early in the semester in order to maximize their chances of success.

The Learning Center also coordinates Smarthinking, which gives students access to free online tutoring 24/7.  Direct students to select "Free Online Tutoring" on the red Canvas toolbar on the left.  If you're curious about it, instructors can try it out, too!