Registration Advising

Registration Advising occurs prior to a student’s registration for the next Fall or Spring term. Typically, it occurs during the weeks just before and during Advance Registration. All degree-seeking students must consult with an academic advisor each semester to obtain advising clearance for the next semester.

Students should be prepared to discuss the following topics during Registration Advising:

• Short-term academic and personal goals, and how achieving these may help bring the student closer to their long-term professional and personal goals
• Current grades in their courses-in-progress, and predicted final grades for those courses
• Academic strengths, and how they plan to capitalize on them
• Academic weaknesses, and how they plan to compensate for them
• The amount of time that they have committed to other responsibilities (e.g., work, family, commuting, Student Orgs., etc)
• A proposed schedule/course list for the next Fall/Spring semester, and any Summer/Winter courses that they are considering (if applicable). Additional plans for semesters beyond that can also be helpful.
• Questions they have about advising-related matters

In order to help students gather these thoughts together, CNMS Advising has developed an Advising and Registration Checklist. Many advisors in CNMS require that their advisees complete this form (or something similar) prior to their Registration Advising appointment/consultation.

Registration Advising does not include the student’s actual registration for classes. Students are expected to complete that process on their own. There is an instruction guide and how-to video available that walks students through the course registration process, if they need to be reminded of the process.