Joining the Academic Community: A Joint Responsibility
Attaining your academic goals at Ohio State 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 the Registrar's Online Services Website
- 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.
- 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 are responsible for scheduling an appointment with your assigned academic adviser(s) regularly.
- 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, the Colleges of the Arts and Sciences Bulletin, the quarterly Master Schedule of Classes, and the Arts and Sciences Student Handbook.
- You are responsible for maintaining good academic standing which is at least a GPA of 2.00.
