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A College Degree - A Joint Responsibility

Attaining your academic goals at OSU involves a very important dual responsibility. The university, its faculty and staff, has an absolute commitment to offering you a challenging and high quality education along with responsibility to provide comprehensive resources that will support your needs and reinforce your efforts to be a successful and accomplished student. Likewise, you will assume an equally significant degree of responsibility for accomplishing your goals. You, as a citizen of the university community, should be prepared and willing to work hard at learning and to pursue ways of contributing, not just receiving, to our overall university mission. You bring a vast array of experience and ambition. Together we will work hard to partner in your educational endeavors.

•	You are responsible for knowing your current schedule at all times, including call numbers. You can find this at www.ureg.ohio-state.edu/ourweb/online.html
•	You are responsible for knowing the requirements of the curriculum that you are pursuing.
•	You are responsible for knowing whether or not you are on a Wait List. You can find this at the Registrar’s Online Services Website www.ureg.ohio-state.edu/ourweb/online.html.
•	You are responsible for checking your schedule regularly to see if you have been added to a class from the Wait List. You will NOT receive notification from the Registrar's Office if you are added to a class and it does not change your fees. (Note: The Wait List will not add you to any classes after the first Friday of the quarter.)
•	You will be assigned a faculty adviser. You are responsible for knowing your adviser's name, e-mail and office address..
•	You are responsible for getting updated GEC and major information. The information sheets are updated a few times a year; classes can be added and dropped at any time. You must be aware of the changes.
•	You are responsible for choosing to have (or not have) student health insurance EVERY time you register for classes.
•	Check your campus e-mail REGULARLY. If you use another e-mail account instead, make sure to contact OIT to have them forward your OSU account to the account that you use.
•	You are responsible for knowing the repercussions of schedule changes. (for example, the effects of changes of your eligibility for financial aid, your projected graduation date, etc.)
•	You are responsible for checking the prerequisites to ALL classes that you sign up for. BRUTUS will not catch all of them all of the time.
•	You are responsible for officially dropping courses that you have stopped attending. An instructor will not automatically drop you from a course just because you stopped attending class.
•	You are responsible for understanding your fees (tuition, health insurance, etc.) and resolving issues with the appropriate office (Financial Aid, Fees and Deposits, etc.)
•	You are responsible for knowing the University's policies, regulations, and procedures. You should be familiar with the Course Offerings Bulletin, your Colleges Bulletin and the quarterly Master Schedule of Classes.
•	You are responsible for earning the minimum CPHR of a 2.00 in the major, minor and overall.

Things You Can Do For Yourself
•	Run a Degree Audit Report from the Registrar's On-Line Services Website.
•	Run an Advising Report (an unofficial transcript) from the Registrar's On-Line Services Website.
•	Check your past quarter's grades by checking your OSU e-mail or Registrar's On-Line Services Website.
•	Schedule your classes using the Registrar's On-Line Services Website.
•	Find out your registration window time by checking your OSU e-mail during the second week of each quarter.
•	Inquire about the procedure for getting an official transcript by calling the Registrar at (614) 292-0776, or read about it at "Ordering a Transcript" on the Registrar's On-Line Services Website.
•	Check the web for courses that are still open at the Registrar's On-Line Services Website.
•	Report a change in your address or phone number at (614) 292-7598, or on the web at the Registrar's On-Line Services Website, so that you get your campus mail.

What You Can Do to Graduate in 4 Years
•	Register and complete an average of 16 hrs per quarter.
	•	15 hrs x 12 qtrs = 180 hrs (you need AT LEAST 190 TO GRADUATE)
	•	Some quarters you will need to take more than 15 hours
•	Stay in frequent contact with your academic advisor and the college office.
•	Know and understand your degree requirements.
•	Keep on track with required course sequences (ex., math, sciences, major prerequisite courses).
•	Do not make it a common practice to drop or fail courses.
•	Review your degree audit at least annually.
•	Long range degree planning.

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