Office of the Registrar
Dates and Deadlines
First Semester 2008/2009
| Aug 29 | Registration for First Semester 2008-2009. Students must submit the red and white "Personal Data Form" to complete registration process; return it to the Office of the Registrar between 8:30 a.m. and 4:00 p.m. |
| Sept 1 | Classes begin at 8:30 a.m. Beginning this day all changes of registration must be initialed by respective instructors before submitting the form to the Registrar's Office. |
| Sept 3 | Seniors begin checking requirements and make final declaration of degree program. All Seniors expecting to graduate in December 2008, May 2009, or August 2009 must indicate their intention in the Office of the Registrar sometime between September 4 and September 29. |
| Sept 5 | All students expecting to enroll in a Directed Study, Independent Study, or Senior Research must submit the completed form to the Office of the Registrar by 4:30 p.m. Copies of the form can be found on the web. |
| Sept 12 | Last day to add courses. Properly signed Add/Drop form must be in the Office of the Registrar by 4:30 p.m. |
| Sept 12 | Last day to add/drop first quarter physical education activity course. |
| Sept 26 | Last day for upperclassmen (all but entering first year students) to drop courses for the fall semester 2008. An F or U will be awarded if one withdraws from a course after this date. |
| Sept 26-28 | Fall Parents Weekend |
| Oct 1 | Departments submit proposal courses for Spring 2009. |
| Oct 3 | Last day to submit Additional Credit Hour application. The properly signed form must be in the Office of the Registrar by 4:30 p.m. |
| Oct 3 | Last day to submit Satisfactory/Unsatisfactory applications. The form must must be in the Office of the Registrar by 4:30 p.m. |
| Oct 10 | Last day to submit work for incomplete awarded previously. All missing work must be submitted to the instructor no later than 4:30 p.m. An extension can be granted only by petitioning the Registrar's Advisory Board and have the petition approved. |
| Oct 18-19 | Homecoming |
| Oct 20 | Second quarter physical education activity courses begin. |
| Oct 20 | Mid-semester grades due in the Office of the Registrar. |
| Oct 31 | Last day to drop courses for entering first year students. An F or U will be awarded if one withdraws from a course after this date. |
| Nov 3 | Last day to add/drop for second quarter physical education activity courses. |
| Nov 5-21 | Course Pre-registration and Counseling for Spring 2009. |
| Nov 7 | Current seniors submit registration materials to Registrar's Office by 4:30 pm. |
| Nov 10 | Current seniors enrollment requests are processed. |
| Nov 12 | Current juniors submit registration materials to Registrar's Office by 4:30 pm. |
| Nov 13 | Current juniors enrollment requests are processed. |
| Nov 14 | Current sophomores submit registration materials to Registrar's Office by 4:30 pm. |
| Nov 17 | Current sophomores enrollment requests are processed. |
| Nov 20 | Current first year students submit registration materials to Registrar's Office by 4:30 p.m. |
| Nov 21-25 | Current first year students enrollment requests are processed. |
| Nov 21 | Last day of classes prior to Thanksgiving vacation. |
| Dec 1 | Classes resume at 8:30 a.m. |
| Dec 12 | Classes end at 5:00 p.m. |
| Dec 13-14 | Reading and Study Days |
| Dec 15-16 | Final Examinations |
| Dec 17 | Reading and Study Day |
| Dec 18-20 | Final Examinations |
| Dec 21 | Residence halls close at 9:00 a.m. |
| Dec 30 | Grades will be available on Web4student. |
| Jan 19 | Spring 2009 semester begins. |
- Students other than entering first year students may drop courses only during the first four weeks of the semester. Signed forms must be in the Registrar's Office by 4:30 p.m. on September 26, 2008. For their first semester, entering first year students have until October 31, 2008 at 4:30 p.m. to drop courses. There are add/drop deadlines for physical education activity courses that are different than the general policy. Please note September 12 and November 3 listed above.
- Students should be particularly careful about credit hours for first and second semester. Excess hour charges of $1,080.00 per credit hour will routinely be assessed each semester for any credits beyond 18.
- Students will be expected to use their social security number or their ID number for identification purposes.
- Routinely most classes begin on the half hour and conclude at 20 past the hour. Please note that the letter R represents Thursday.
- It is the student's responsibility to check the accuracy of his or her schedule. The Registrar's Advisory Board has directed that deadline dates are to be enforced strictly. We do not wish to penalize students by assessing failures to courses you have neglected to drop formally; nevertheless, it is critical that your schedule be correct. Please help us to make your experience at Denison a pleasant one.
- For the past decade the Academic Affairs Council has authorized the Registrar and the Registrar's Advisory Board to place some students on deferred suspension without going through the suspension and petition process. Still others may be placed on Deferred Suspension (DSP) when a student's quality point deficiency exceeds eight quality points.
- Grades should be available by December, 2008. One can likely access your grades through the web at http://my.denison.edu.
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