Enrollment help set next week

By Rory Sa

It’s beginning to look a lot like enrollment time at Fresno State.

Several signs were put up around campus within the last week, warning about the encroaching deadline for currently enrolled students to sign up for spring 2004 classes.

To give students a hand in the first semester sign-up without a printed schedule of courses, a dozen laptops will be set up on the main floor of the student union beginning Monday. Accompanying the laptops will be assistants to help students gather their schedule together.

This will be the third semester where laptops have been made available for students. Vice president of enrollment services Bernie Vinovrski said an average of 1,000 students used the laptops for enrollment each semester.

“ We even have people come by just to practice, use the schedule planner,” he said.

Vinovrski said it takes an average of 15 to 20 minutes for students to build their schedule if they don’t plan ahead. It may take students longer this semester because printed schedules won’t be available. He recommends students use the schedule planner, located on the my.csufresno.edu Web site, to see what their potential schedule will look like.

With printed schedules, Vinovrski said that students had no idea how many seats were left in classes, or which classes might have been dropped from the schedule. With the schedule planners, however, students will know in “real-time” if a course is still available, and how many seats are still open.

The temporary registration lab is open from 8 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. from Monday through Friday. It will be available from Nov. 10 until Nov. 21.

After enrollment ends there will be a phone survey asking students about their experience. Phone polls from the last two semesters indicate an 80-percent satisfaction rate.

When classes begin in January, students must attend their classes. Faculty will be encouraged to immediately drop students who have missed the first week of class.

“ It’s real important to get to class in the first week or seats will be lost,” Vinovrski said.