The Rocket

Issue date: 11/2/07 Section: News

Media Credit: Joey Kennedy Freshman Mara Christy visits Sandy Wakefield in the Office of Academic Records and Summer School in 107 Old Main to register for future classes. Currently a student can either schedule online via the Rock Talk program or they can visit any office on campus, including department offices, to receive help while tackling the task of registration. [Click to enlarge]

Class registration for the spring 2008 semester is quickly approaching and many students are not looking forward to the hassle of tackling the entire process.

According to the office of Academic Records and Summer School, when a student is scheduled to resister depends on how many credits he or she has completed either at SRU or as a transfer student.

"We assume that you will pass all the credits that you are currently enrolled in," said the director of academic records, Eliott Baker.

Over the two-week period from November 5 to 16, excluding Wednesdays, students will be busying themselves with adviser meetings, degree audit report printing and class crunching.

"We do not have students register Wednesdays so that we (academic records) can monitor what classes are filling up and what ones are not," Baker said.

The office of Academic Records does not have the authority to open more classes or add more seats to a current class, but they can, however, notify the deans of departments about what is occurring and alert them of any problems that could be on the horizon.

"Naturally, the biggest complaint is that students can't get into all the classes at the times that they want," he said. "This normally occurs more with freshman and sophomores because they are not scheduling as early as the others."

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