Registration

Entering first-year students receive registration materials during the summer before their arrival on campus. They complete their registration with their adviser during August orientation.

First-semester, first-year traditional students may not enroll in any of the following:

• Fast Track I or II courses.
• courses beginning later than 6:00 p.m.
• consortium courses.

Current students register via their advisers and Banner Web for the fall semester during a week in April and for the spring semester during a week in November. At other times, students must register by submitting an adviser-approved add form to the Registrar's Office.

Advising

Advisers are faculty who are available to generally guide student during their academic life and who, in the registration process, help students select courses appropriate to the student's course of study. Registration cannot be completed without adviser approval. Advisers are the source of the "alternate PIN number" necessary for online registration and their signatures are required for the add/drop paper registration process.

First-year students' advisers are also their First Year Experience instructors. That adviser serves until the student selects a major at the beginning of the sophomore year when the student gets a "Change of Adviser/Declaration of Major" form and meets with a department chair to declare a major and select a new adviser. The adviser switch is completed after the former and new advisers sign the form and the student delivers the approved document to the Registrar. If requested, the Associate Academic Dean or the Director of the First Year Program assists with a change of major or adviser.

Enrolling in Fast-Track Courses

All students (traditional or CCE) seeking to enroll in Fast Tracks must be certified by the faculty adviser providing the alternate PIN number as

• having completed a minimum of 24 credit hours of approved college work.
• having fulfilled the English 102 requirement.
• being in good academic standing.

Enrolling in Consortium Courses

Guilford College students also may enroll in appropriate liberal arts courses in the Greater Greensboro Consortium , provided that Guilford does not offer the selected courses and that the institution's own students do not fill the enrollment. Credit will be granted and grades and grade points will be applied.

Students must be signed up for an equal or greater number of credits at Guilford before registering for consortium courses. Dual admission and dual enrollment outside of the cross-registration procedures are prohibited, and any changes to consortium registration must be done at Guilford and the consortium school. It is the right of each college or university to allow consortium students to take on-line courses.

Guilford students attending consortium schools are subject to the rules, regulations and deadlines of the consortium school. Consortium schools are under no obligation to give final exams early to allow students to graduate on time. Consortium parking stickers are given by the home institution.

Juniors and seniors are not allowed to attend Guilford Technical Community College.

Changes in Registration: Withdrawal from Courses

Once registered, the student is responsible for all listed courses and may change registration only by delivering to the Registrar's Office an appropriately completed and signed drop-add slip. Students can drop or add courses with just an adviser's signature until the last day to add without a fee. After this date, the instructor's signature is also required. Refer to the academic calendar for specific registration-related dates such as the last day for students to add courses, drop courses without a grade, and drop courses with a W grade.  

Students are responsible for checking BannerWeb for an updated schedule and reporting any discrepancies to the Registrar's Office.

After the published dates for dropping courses, a regular grade will be given unless the Associate Academic Dean, Academic Dean, or Dean for Campus Life authorizes an administrative withdrawal.

Fees for Late Drop/Adds and Registration

For changes made within a semester, the late fee is $50 for each action. For changes approved for a prior semester, the late fee is $100 for each action.

The only exceptions to this late fee are:

• registration changes mandated by a department to place a student in a more appropriate course level or to balance teaching loads (e.g., moving from one level of language or mathematics to a higher or lower one, shifting students from one course section to another).
• late adds mandated by a department when it was impossible to know by the deadline whether or not the student would be enrolled in a given course (e.g., students who receive credit for roles in theatrical productions when tryouts occur after the deadline to add courses).

Requests for registration changes are dated according to when the request is received by the Registrar's Office.

Students should check BannerWeb for an updated schedule and report any discrepancies to the Registrar's Office within one week of submitting the drop/add form. Corrections cannot be made after one week.

Withdrawal from the College

Students who receive a medical withdrawal from the College (see section entitled Separation From The College below) will be granted grades of W for all courses in progress at the date of withdrawal. After the last day to withdraw with a W grade, students who either withdraw voluntarily or are administratively withdrawn from the College, will be awarded grades of WP (withdrawal with a passing grade, when a student has earned a D- or higher) or WF (withdrawal with a failing grade).