Welcome to Rice!
The first priority of the Office of the Registrar is to help
you in whatever way we can in matters relating to scheduling classes,
registering students, and maintaining academic records. If you
have any questions, please feel free to call extension 4999, or
send an email message to lbranch@rice.edu.
I also encourage you to visit our home page at http://www.ruf.rice.edu/~reg
for information on course scheduling and the University's academic
calendar. Or better yet, stop by the Registrar's Office on the
first floor of Allen Center and get acquainted.
Your First Semester at Rice
Rice allows students relatively broad flexibility in developing
their degree programs and scheduling their courses. Students are
permitted to shop around for courses each semester and may drop
and add without penalty through the second week of classes. New
students may even drop courses up to the last week of classes.
Such flexibility, of course, has a certain price in terms of efficiency
in course scheduling. We make every effort to match classrooms
with the needs of faculty and students, but at the beginning of
each semester, there is an inevitable period of crowding and sorting
out of space. Please understand that this is a normal phenomenon
at Rice. If you have particular problems with overcrowding at
the opening of school over and above those associated with "shopping
around," please contact our office, and we will work with
you to find a solution.
Early in the semester, you will be issued the class rosters
for the courses you teach. Upon request, our office will also
provide you with an electronic file of your enrollment rosters.
If you would like an electronic roster, please send me an e-mail
message requesting a file of your enrollments, indicating what
type of desktop computer or server you use. You might also check
with your department administrator, many of whom also maintain
an electronic file of enrollments. Please note that class rosters
at Rice do not indicate whether students are enrolled for a grade
or on a pass/fail basis.
Please refer to the General Announcements for detailed
information about registration, grade submission, and final
exam scheduling. Please also read the Faculty
Grading Guidelines in the General Announcements for information
on University grading policies, and feel free to consult with
us or with your departmental colleagues if you are unsure of grading
practices. Rice has a distinctive method of final examination
scheduling, in that students are permitted to take their finals
according to a schedule that they individually design for themselves.
Specific information will be sent to you around mid-semester about
the exam schedule. Late in the semester, you will be issued a
grade roster for the official submission of grades. In order to
issue grade reports to students on time, it is very important
that you meet the deadlines for submission of grades each semester.
Please note that after the deadline we cannot change grades except
in cases of clerical error.
Again, welcome to Rice. We stand ready to serve you in any way we can to make your first experience teaching at Rice as rewarding and fruitful as possible.
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