News and Announcements

Advising Holds

Advising holds are holds on your account that require you to meet with your academic advisor prior to registering for classes. To get the hold lifted, you will simply need to contact your academic advisor and they will be able to lift it after meeting with you.

How do you know if you have a hold?

Construction

Have you stopped by the Office of the Registrar lately? If you have not, we think you will be quite surprised by the new look and feel of the office. Over Winter Break, we completely remodeled the Reception area, and we also reconfigured the back office to accommodate additional staff from within the Division of Student Affairs! The new "faces" include:

• Mike Holmes, SIS Systems Coordinator
• Rachel Jones, Information Technology Training Specialist
• Sam Barr, Information Technology Coordinator
• Nikki Goldsmith, Information Technology Student Employee

We even have three fish (names still to be determined)!

Office Welcomes New Student Employees

Shortly before Winter Break, the Office of the Registrar welcomed three new student employees!

• Greg Gustafson is a freshman Deciding major from Roland, Iowa.
• Emma Dolan is a sophomore English major from Waterloo, Iowa.
• Nick West is a freshman Accounting major from Runnells, Iowa.

They are joining us in the front Reception area and will be more than happy to assist you!

Student Spotlight: Shawna Massow

Name: Shawna Massow

Hometown: Robins, IA

Classification: Senior

Major: All Social Science Teaching – Plan B

How Long Have You Worked in the Office of the Registrar? 4 Years

What do you enjoy most about working in the office?  The ability to answer questions that often seem immensely confusing. I also enjoy making connections campus-wide about a topic that every student is effected by, i.e.: registration, graduation, and so on.

Registration Information

Summer Registration

Summer registration is beginning soon and taking summer courses is an option that students can consider. However, summer can be a little confusing due to different terms summer courses are offered. Summer courses will be in one of these categories:

Closed Courses

With registration coming up, students are worried about getting into the classes that they need for the upcoming semester. The biggest concern is what should be done if the course is closed.

If a class is closed, the Office of the Registrar can add you into it. Students just need to complete an “Add/Drop” slip. These forms are available in our office as well as at some academic departments across campus. Students simply need to complete the form and get the appropriate signatures. The tricky part is, how do I know which signatures I need?

Course Overloads

Registering for classes and realize that you need to take more credits than the maximum allowed? Don’t worry! All you need to do is get a course overload. This can be done by simply filling out an Undergraduate Student Request Form with the number of credit hours you want to take. Undergraduate Student Request forms are available in our office, in some offices across campus, and on our website.

Graduation and Commencement

Spring Commencement Ceremonies

Graduating in May and don’t know quite when to be where? We’ve got the answers for you! This semester there will be three commencement ceremonies. The Spring 2013 Commencement dates, times and locations are as follows:

Verifying You Are on Track to Graduate

Completing your degree requirements means that all course work and all departmental graduation requirements (e.g., comprehensive examinations, internships, student teaching, correspondence work, departmental defense, internship, and thesis, dissertation, research paper, project, recital, etc.), that are part of your degree program, are completed.

You can track your progress towards your degree by utilizing your Academic Advisement Report, which provides information on how the courses you have completed, and are currently enrolled in and/or registered for, apply to your degree requirements.

Graduation Applications

If you are completing your final degree requirements this semester and plan to have a degree awarded in May, you MUST apply to graduate. A $60.00 Graduation fee will be assessed to your account EACH TIME you apply to graduate.

The deadline to apply to graduate for Spring 2013 is April 1, 2013, in order to have your name included in the commencement program. Applying by this date ensures that you will not be assessed a late Application for Graduation Fee. 

The Application for Graduation is completed within your Student Center within MyUNIverse. Below are the steps:

Graduation Checklist

Are you not sure what you should do next? The Office of the Registrar has added a Graduation Checklist to the top right-hand corner of the website to help you out! This list provides links to more information about each step that you need to complete for graduation and commencement. When you click each link it will provide you with more information about that topic. Be sure to check it out to see what you need to do next!

Commencement RSVP

Who needs to fill out a Commencement RSVP?