Directions for Faculty Advising New Students

Orientation Summer 2008

Thank you for agreeing to advise our newest Simmons undergraduate students.

New students have been alerted that their faculty advisor will be contacting them by email or telephone during the week of June 9th.

Students will be directed to the orientation website where all of the registration materials are also available - the Fall Schedule of Classes, Open Modes Courses, a worksheet to prepare course selections. Students will complete a Registration Worksheet for their own purposes. This student Registration Worksheet will not be returned to the Registrar's office, but will rather be a starting point for your conversation. The Faculty Advisor Registration Form (download below) should be used to register students.

Advising documents for Fall 2008:
Updated June 4, 2008

Multi-section courses (any course where there is more than one section available) will be scheduled by the Registrar, so simply choose SPAN 101 (no section required), BIOL 113 (no lab section required). The Registrar's staff will work with the full schedule to find times and days that do not conflict. All new first-year students will be registered in MCC by the Registrar's staff. The actual sections with the course titles and content will be sent to students in early August. Students will then send us their top MCC section choices and the Director will make assignments. An updated schedule will be issued mid-August.

Transfer and Dix students will be assigned the appropriate course(s) for MCC completion.

Usually students take 4 courses (16 credits per semester). First-year students may not exceed 16 semester hours their first term. Transfer may take between 12 and 20 credits and Dix Scholars between 4 and 20 credits. Colleges of the Fenway courses are open to Dix Scholars and transfer students, but not first-year students unless there are extenuating circumstances.

Notify the Registrar of the student's course choices by one of the following methods:

  1. Completing the Faculty Advisor Registration Form (download above) and returning it to registrar@simmons.edu, or
  2. Completing the paper form in your advising packet, or
  3. Sending an email to registrar@simmons.edu with the student's full name and courses.

Please feel free to contact us during this registration process with any questions you may have. If you are working over the weekend, you may leave a question at 617-521-2102. We will return you call as promptly as possible.