Adviser Assignment
Every admitted student is assigned an adviser at Orientation, and students' advisers are listed on MyBlugold and on degree audits. Undeclared students work with advisers in Advising and Academic Testing; other students have advisers who teach in the department of their major. Pre-professional students and students with double majors may have an adviser for each of their programs.
Students can seek a minor adviser by asking a faculty member or the program assistant in the department of their minor. Students with topical minors must have a minor adviser who has signed the topical minor form.
See Advice about Academic Advising for information about the adviser-advisee relationship. Go to Registration, Schofield 128, if you have questions about adviser assignment.
Change of Adviser
Sometimes students want to change major advisers because they've established a relationship with a different faculty member in the department of their major or because their schedule conflicts with the availability of the assigned adviser. To ask about changing advisers, see the program assistant or chair of the major department. Because of advising specialties and the need to balance adviser loads, change of adviser is not always possible.
Students who change majors (at Registration, Schofield 128) are given an adviser assignment form to take to the program assistant in their new department.
See Using Email in Advising to learn how advisers can procure lists of their advisees.
Overloads
Students sometimes request, and faculty sometimes grant, course overloads or special permissions, which allow students seats in upcoming classes that already are full or for which the students don't meet prerequisites or restrictions. Both the department and the student must enter data into MyBlugold when an overload or special permission is given. The faculty member or program assistant first needs to enter the student's name and identification number into MyBlugold. The student then registers for the course.
Waiting Lists
Some academic departments maintain lists of students who will be allowed to register for an upcoming course should additional seats become available. When a course is closed or full, students can contact the program assistant in the office of the department that offers the course to see whether a waiting list is being maintained and to ask to be added to the list if one exists.
Students can be added to waiting lists before their appointed registration times, so they may want to begin checking course availability on MyBlugold weeks before they actually register. Sometimes the abbreviation WT will be listed to show that a waiting list is being kept.
When a waiting list is being maintained, students on that list will be given permission to register as previously enrolled students drop the course or as seats are added. That means that a course may appear on the open class list after someone has dropped it, but a student not on the waiting list will not be allowed to register for the course because all additions will come from the waiting list.
When a student on a waiting list is given permission to register for the course, that student still must enter MyBlugold and add the course.
