• Advising information for Incoming Freshmen
  

Advising Information for Current Students:

• When do I enroll?
• Special Notes about Honors Advising
• What holds do I have?
• Who is my advisor?
• What honors courses are being offered?
• FAQs about advising
  
  

INCOMING FRESHMEN

Incoming freshmen who have been accepted to the program will experience their first interaction with honors advisors during their summer orientation. Honors Program students do not have a specific orientation date. Please go to the New Student Orientation website to register for an orientation session. Students who have been accepted to the program will receive correspondence from the Honors Program a few days before their session and will automatically be assigned to an honors advisor. Before attending orientation, students are encouraged to look at the honors tutorial list and the honors course list (available on our website) before they attend orientation. Students should also check the timetable for open sections. Students should bring any test scores (ACT, SAT, AP) which have NOT yet been sent to KU, as well as transcripts (unofficial ones are fine) which list any college course work they have completed after applying to KU.   These items can help the Honors Program faculty and staff advise more effectively. Incoming students who have been approved to take summer courses will be able to enroll May 12th through June 2nd.

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ENROLLMENT TIME

The Honors Program priority enrollment date for current honors students to enroll for Summer/Fall 2008 is March 27.  Enrollment “appointments”— the earliest time on March 27 that students can access the Enroll and Pay system in order to register— will be scheduled throughout the day, beginning with seniors.  In order to enroll on March 27, you must make sure that you do not have any holds.  Please follow the instructions below in order to prepare for enrollment.

If you do not enroll on March 27, you may enroll or make schedule changes any day after that time through midnight, May 31.  After that, should you want to make changes to your fall 2008 schedule, you will have to wait until August 1.

For general information and an overview of the enrollment process, you should also consult the CLA&S Student Academic Services web page: http://www2.ku.edu/~clasus

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SPECIAL NOTES ABOUT HONORS ADVISING

PLEASE NOTE: Students are strongly encouraged to meet with their advisors before Spring Break. (Advising will also be available at Nunemaker during Spring Break; please call 864-4225 to set up an appointment).

Please contact your advisor(s) ahead of time to make an appointment because walk-in appointments may not be available.

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HOLDS
Students will not be able to enroll until all holds have been cleared. All CLAS students with fewer than 90 hours completed may see one of two holds. A FAH (Freshman Advising Hold) is for students in their first two semesters at KU and these students will need to meet with their honors advisor (see section below). An NDC (Non-Declared Hold) is for continuing students who have not yet declared a major; these students will need to meet with an advisor in the Honors Program, a professional school, or a CLAS department. Students in professional schools may have advising holds from their specific school and will need to meet with an advisor there. Examples of other holds are unpaid parking tickets, incomplete immunization records, or past due bills (including tuition, fines, and Res Net Fees). Honors staff can lift CLAH FA holds and NDC holds, but only after the student has met with an advisor.

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WHO IS MY ADVISOR?

After students have begun their first semester, advising is provided in the following ways:

• All students who have NOT yet identified a likely major(s) will be advised by Honors staff and Honors faculty fellows in Nunemaker Center. Students are encouraged to make appointments ahead of time by calling the Honors Program at 785-864-4225. NOTE: Your advising session may not necessarily be with the same person who advised you during summer orientation. Students who have identified a major will be advised by a faculty member in that academic department.  (See notes below.)
  
  
• All students in the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences who have decided to pursue a particular major(s) in CLAS will be advised by a faculty member in that academic department. If you already have an advisor in your department, you may continue to meet with them. If not, a list of CLAS faculty members with particular interest and expertise in working with Honors students is available here. The list also includes links to the home pages of academic departments which provides information about the teaching and research areas of faculty, as well as information about requirements for the major. Since each department handles appointment scheduling differently, you may either phone or stop by the main department office for information OR directly contact a faculty member by e-mail or phone.  In either case, you will be able to find out what procedures that department uses to schedule advising appointments.  Students who want additional assistance in identifying an appropriate faculty advisor are invited to meet with an Honors staff member or faculty fellow for guidance.
  
  
• Students in Engineering, Architecture, and Fine Arts should meet with advisors in those schools with regard to major requirements AND to have advising holds removed.  For specific information regarding Honors courses and completion, students may also want to meet with an Honors staff member or faculty fellow.  (Honors Program students in Engineering should plan to meet with their assigned Engineering advisors.  For further assistance with Honors-related questions, they may consult with the Engineering faculty listed on the Honors homepage under "Advising."  These faculty members have had significant involvement with the Honors Program.) Students in Architecture should consult Professor William Carswell (864-4365 or jwc@ku.edu) with Honors-related questions.

• Students who have been accepted to the School of Business must be advised in that school OR sign a waiver indicating that they decline formal Business advising.  Students should consult an advisor in Nunemaker Center with specific questions related to Honors.

• Students in pre-professional programs (pre-journalism, pre-education, pre-pharmacy) may contact those schools or consult information on the school's homepage for advising leading to the major.  Students who are in these pre-professional programs can also meet with Honors staff or faculty fellows in Nunemaker.
  

CLAS Department Advisor List

For Engineering students in the Honors Program:
Five faculty members in the Engineering School have agreed to advise honors students. These faculty members can advise students on honors program completion as well as other honors program opportunities. NOTE: THESE FACULTY MEMBERS CANNOT REMOVE THE ENGINEERING ADVISING HOLD. The Honors Program encourages its students to meet with the honors engineering advisors IN ADDITION to their assigned engineering advisor:

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Professor	Department	Phone Number	E-Mail
Bryan Young (Honors Faculty Fellow: Nunemaker Office Hours on Fridays from 9 to Noon)	Civil/Environmental/Architectural Engineering	Call 864-4225 to set up an appointment	cbyoung@ku.edu
Lorin Maletsky	Mechanical Engineering	864-2985	Maletsky@ku.edu
Thomas Mulinazzi	Civil/Environmental/Architectural Engineering	864-2928	tomm@ku.edu
Ron Barrett	Aerospace Engineering	864-2226	barrettr@ku.edu
Perry Alexander	Electrical Engineering and Computer Science	864-8833	palexand@ku.edu

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