Banner pre-registration begins today with rising seniors
Chaz Firestone
Issue date: 4/24/07 Section: Campus News
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The beginning of pre-registration arrives on the heels of a two-week advising period, during which freshmen were to get their authorization PINs from advisers, sophomores would declare concentrations and all students could browse Banner's online course catalogs to identify courses for next semester.
Now that the advising period is over, University officials say the success of pre-registration will depend largely on the cooperation of students and how they handle the new system.
"Right now, students have the lion's share of the work," said Associate Provost Nancy Dunbar, who leads the Banner project.
Though the University has hosted discussion forums and information sessions, many students still seem ill-informed about how Banner is going to function.
"I haven't read any of the e-mails about Banner," said Candice Chu '10. "I wish I had read the materials they sent out."
Though Chu said she plans to find out more about Banner before it is time to register, she said she has not yet familiarized herself with the system or received her PIN from her freshman adviser.
"I guess I'll do that this week," she said.
But Chu added that she has looked at courses to take next semester and plans to obtain a copy of the student-designed Course Announcement Bulletin, of which the University ordered hundreds of copies and plans to order more after students grabbed every available copy in a matter of hours.
Finn Yarbrough '09, who designed this year's CAB and originally planned to sell copies through Allega Print & Imaging, said the University used money from President Simmons' discretionary fund - reserved for uses deemed especially appropriate by the president's office - to order 740 copies of his CAB, 520 of which were removed from the Post Office in a span of 45 minutes.