Priority Registration

**Please note that students registered with the OSD eligible for priority registration will have the priority date indicated as their registration time. Priority registration is always the Friday after the next semester schedules come out. For clarification of the date check with the Office for Students with Disabilities.

**A student may register after the day of priority registration, however the student assumes FULL responsibility for late enrollment. No guarantee for open classes is made after priority registration.

*When a student identifies that they receive priority registration, it is the responsibility of the faculty advisor to schedule an academic advising appointment with the student prior to priority registration. If a time cannot be scheduled prior to priority registration and it is the faculty person’s time conflict, another advisor needs to meet with the student and contact either the advisor or the Academic Advising Center for the student’s registration code. Faculty are notified each term of the date of priority registration.

*To send faculty notification and time lines for priority registration each term. Faculty are notified via a faculty listserv announcement.

*To prepare and update as needed, a list of students eligible for priority registration and submit to the records office prior to registration for each term.

*To provide assistance with registration if the student experiences a problem.

*To be available to faculty and staff to answer questions about this service or any other disability issue.

*To make an appointment with their academic advisor and notify them of their priority registration status.

*To monitor if the student has excessive absences and notify OSD as such for more appropriate delivery of services.

*To screen students for the necessary accommodation and to officially notify faculty of this accommodation.

*To hire and monitor note takers.

*To copy all notes and distribute to students on a daily basis.

*To maintain a list of student note takers each term to be used as a pool of potential student employees.

*To be available to faculty to answer questions about this or any other disability issue.

*If using a note taker, the student must have regular class attendance to continue receiving notes. If a student has excessive absences that are not disability related, students will not be given notes for the days they are absent.

*The student is responsible for picking up their notes every week, or notes will no longer be made available.

Student note taker is responsible for bringing in the notes every day the class meets for OSD student workers to copy. Notes are to be dated for every class period, the instructor’s name and the class name will be on the first page of each day’s notes. The pages of notes are to be numbered beginning with page 1 on the first day of class and numbering all pages thereafter in consecutive order.

*A note taker is a student already enrolled in the course who takes lectures notes for the student with a disability.

*Faculty who have private and quiet space available in their area, are encouraged to provide testing in their own dept. This allows the students an opportunity to ask the professor questions regarding the exam or the wording of specific questions.

*To have exams/quizzes to OSD prior to the student’s arrival to take the test. Students are expected to write their exams at the same time as the rest of the students unless faculty is notified otherwise.

*Faculty may mail their exams (with a 3-day advance mail time) to the OSD or have a student worker or designated person deliver the exams to the OSD. The OSD does not have sufficient help to pick up exams prior to test time.

*Notify faculty that this is an appropriate accommodation and whether or not extended time is needed.

*Provide a secure area for storing tests until given.

*Provide assistance to students who are testing.

*To return tests to faculty when students are finished testing (or as soon thereafter as possible.)

*To be available to faculty and staff to answer questions about this service or any other disability issue.

*To contact OSD at the beginning of each term and fill out the faculty notification form for appropriate accommodations.

*To remind faculty 3-4 days in advance to send exams to the OSD.

*To notify the OSD 3-4 days in advance what test you have and when you need a room. If a reader is needed, please indicate that on the notification form.

*To show up at the scheduled time (the same time as the rest of the class unless previous arrangements have been made) on the day of the test.

*To make alternate arrangements with the instructor if you cannot take a test at the specified time. It is the instructor’s sole decision whether or not a test may be taken late and the format for the late exam.

*When notified after priority registration that a student needs their textbooks on tape, faculty is responsible for providing students with a syllabus for the next term as soon as possible.

*If a syllabus is not available, the name of the textbook, author, edition, publication date, and ISBN are needed along with the reading assignments (in order of assignment) for the term. This information is essential for the student to be able to get their reading material in time for the next term.

*All journal readings or handouts need to be provided to the student at the beginning of the term to facilitate reading assignments taped in a timely manner 12/2/2002with the OSD.

*To help students access any reading material through outside agencies that they are using.

*Upon request to read assignments on tape and to inform students of the timeline involved.

*To be available to faculty and staff to answer questions about this service or any other disability issue.

*To notify faculty of their need for early syllabi and textbook information as soon as they have registered for the next term.

*To contact their recording center or the OSD for taping of their textbooks.

*To purchase books immediately and send the books to be taped by the various agencies. This must be done early enough to allow the taping center time to meet the student’s needs. The beginning of the term is not an appropriate time to be sending material out to be read.

*To check your mailbox in OSD once or twice a week to pick up any taped material that is done at BSU.

*To make sure that the OSD is aware of any special needs regarding the reading, ie., study questions at the end of the chapter, vocabulary words, etc.

*To type papers exactly as given to us. NO corrections in grammar, spelling, or punctuation will be made to any paper. All corrections must be made by the student writing the paper.

*To proofread typing done by OSD and make any necessary changes. It is your responsibility to make changes and print your final paper over in the SuperLab