Dan Hodges (featured in the photo on the right), Assistant University Registrar, "rocked the boat" at the annual UF Advising Workshop as he summarized many of the changes affecting students and advising this semester. Here is a synopsis of the changes being implemented:
· Prior to registration, students are now required to read and agree to five conditions of enrollment. One of these five conditions is that students will be held liable for tuition and fees for all courses that are on their schedule at the end of drop/add. Another condition is that students who do not pay their fees by the published deadline will be withdrawn (with no academic penalty) from all courses and retain fee liability. Students will have to petition the Student Petitions Committee to re-enroll in their courses if they are dropped.
· University Petition (formerly known as Senate Petition) forms have been redesigned. All personal statements must be typewritten and one page or less in length or they will not be reviewed.
· In compliance with Florida Statue, students are no longer allowed to petition for retroactive refunds more than 6 months after the last day of the semester for which they are seeking a refund.
· Students on Bright Futures Scholarships will have to repay tuition for dropped courses or withdrawals. Petitions can be made to the Student Petitions Committee.
· An Excess Hours Surcharge for hours exceeding 120% of those required for a degree program will be charged beginning with undergraduates entering Fall 2009. AP, IB, CLEP and other credits will be exempt.
· The Dean of Students Office is no longer the first point of contact for withdrawals, the Registrar is. The Application to Withdraw from All Courses in now available on the Registrar’s web site.
For more details, see Dan Hodge’s "Rockin’ the Boat" PowerPoint presentation.
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