Updates to Student Planning successfully completed

July 9, 2018 

Dear Advisers,

We hope you enjoyed your Fourth of July holiday. We wanted to share with you that we have successfully completed the planned update to our Student Planning registration software mentioned in the last INSIGHTS email. We're excited about this upgrade as it includes many of your recommendations to improve navigation and add helpful information where most needed.

Here are a few enhancements worth noting: 

• Cleaner look overall, with more use of white space, upgraded fonts, and formatting
• Improved Course Catalog search functionality
• Ability to view course fees 
• Notification of wait-listed sections within the schedule planner

If you have any questions or suggestions about Student Planning, please contact Nancy Mustachio of BCIT at nmustach@barnard.edu. For any questions or suggestions about advising, please call the Dean of Studies Office at 212/854-2024; deans are taking varying vacation dates this month, but one of the deans will respond.

Just a reminder about important dates as we near the start of the academic year:

• Sunday, Aug. 26:   First-Years Move In
• Monday, Aug. 27:   New Student Orientation Program (NSOP) begins. Adviser Briefing will likely be held on the morning of this day 
• Tuesday through Thursday, Aug. 28-30:   Advising meetings take place between 1 - 4 p.m. in advisers’ offices
• Friday, Aug. 31:   Optional advising day and Columbia launches actual Registration, which will last through Friday, Sept. 14 (Aug. 31 - Sept. 1 is for entering first-year students only)  

Most students will be in mandatory programs and trainings during the mornings (9 a.m. - 1 p.m.) Monday through Thursday, so if you plan on meeting with them individually, remember that afternoons are best for them.