Current Students and Advising
As a student, it is your responsibility to:
Keep in contact
- Update your address and phone number(s) in MyCat
- Check your mailbox, campus email, and phone messages regularly
- Make an initial appointment with your professional advisor using AdvisorTrac
- Make a fifth-week grade appointment with your professional advisor using AdvisorTrac
- Make appointments with your professional advisor if you are undecided or with your faculty advisor if you have declared your major for pre-registration (during the three-week advising periods each semester) and other advising (during your advisor’s office hours)
- Be on time for advising appointments and contact your advisor if you are unable to keep your appointments
- Follow through on referrals made by your advisor including those with the Writing and Learning Commons, Mathematics Tutoring Center, Health and Counseling Centers, Career Services
Do your homework
- Explore majors that are of interest to you
- Discuss your long-range goals with your advisor
- Initiate questions about your degree program(s)
- Plan tentative course schedules in advance of each advising appointment and bring your degree audit with you during the pre-registration period
- Remember that courses dropped or failed should be taken into account when making up your tentative schedule
- Check course descriptions for prerequisites before choosing a course
- Refer to the University Catalog for information on majors, academic policies, deadlines and degree requirements
- Declare your major
- Use your online transcript and degree audit to track academic progress
Be involved
- Make final decisions about choices concerning academic matters
- Ask questions when you do not know the answers