Other Registration Information and Services

The university through Academic Advising Programs will conduct an orientation program for new freshmen and transfer students during the week before classes each semester. New students will be mailed information regarding this mandatory program.

Continuing students do not have to be on campus until classes begin. You will be able to take care of other activities such as paying course fees, updating your local address, and obtaining your University Identification Card, on campus during the first weeks of classes.

You may obtain or replace your University Identification Card at University ID Cards in Yuba Hall. You must present a check cashing card, driver’s license, or similar identification with a photo.

It is vital that the university have an accurate email, local, permanent, billing, and next-of-kin address to maintain communication with you for many important activities and functions throughout your university career. These include providing you with timely orientation, advising, registration, billing, and financial aid information and disbursements each semester.

You may inform the university of address changes any time using the Address Change form available in the lobby of the Student Records and Registration Office, MLIB 180. You may also change your address by using your Portal account.

Go to the Testing Office, MLIB 143, for information, test registration, and to resolve any problems with EPT and ELM statuses.

Annual schedule information may be found on the Class Schedule available on the Chico Web. New and cancelled sections and time changes on all courses are published and refreshed daily. Schedule infomation and class availability is real-time and up-to-the-minute using your Portal account.

A daily updated Open Classes and Class Schedule can also be found by clicking on the “Class Schedule” button at the CSU Chico homepage, located at http://www.csuchico.edu. It is accessible in most campus micro-computer labs and offices, and from off-campus using an Internet browser.

The university is concerned that all students have adequate health insurance to cover accident and major medical expenses beyond the services of the Student Health Center. Go to the Student Health Center for information on its services and student health insurance.

Parking permits are generally placed on sale the Wednesday prior to the first day of classes at 8:00 a.m. The date, location, and time may vary depending upon availability of facilities. Please obtain current information at www.csuchico.edu/cmgt under Parking Decal Sales or by phoning 530-898-6347. All decals are sold on a first-come first-served basis and usually sell out before the beginning of classes.

Please pay any registration, tuition, and course fees due by mail, e-check, credit card, or in person. You must pay any additonal course fees applicable if you add courses with a course fee. Other fees or deposits may be paid at Student Financial Services-Cashiering, KNDL 212, during business hours throughout the year. See “Fees, Tuition, Credits, and Refunds.”

The fee payment deadline is available on the fees page. All students, including financial aid recipients who pay fees or have financial aid confirmed after 5:00 p.m. the Friday following these deadlines, are considered late registrants and are subject to a $25 late registration fee. You will not be able to add any classes until fees are paid or financial aid is confirmed.

Financial Aid students who have confirmed financial aid applicant status but have not yet received disbursement of funds will not be subject to this fee or restriction to add classes until after the financial aid disbursement date.

If you are a late registrant and are a formally admitted or continuing student, you may use the Course Add/Drop or the Change of Program (COP) process to add all your courses after paying the registration fees or confirming financial aid applicant status. You may not add classes until you have done so. See “Fees, Tuition, Credits, and Refunds.”

Late Registration Procedures:

1. Pay registration fees by mail, e-check, credit card, in person or at the drop box at Student Financial Services-Cashiering, KNDL 212, or by confirming your financial aid status at the Financial Aid & Scholarship Office, MLIB 161, 530-898-6451.
2. During the first two weeks of the semester, you may add the classes you want, if available, without special permission. Attend these courses at the first opportunity and ask the instructor about any instruction or materials you may have missed.
   Alternatively, if a course is full or not available, you may attend the first meeting of the desired class and ask the instructor to add. Provided space is available, the instructor or department will advise you on how to add. If appropriate, they may provide you a COP form, or ask that you try again using your Portal account.
3. If you are registering after the first two weeks of classes, you must use the COP process and obtain the instructor’s signature. You may attend the first meeting possible of all your desired classes and obtain COP forms from the faculty or the department, if space is available and you have faculty permission. After the fourth week of classes, you must obtain additional permission to register from the department chair and dean, depending on the time frame.
4. See “Important Registration Activities, Dates, and Deadlines.”
   

If you cannot attend the first class, notify the instructor in order to avoid being disenrolled. Instructors have the right to disenroll students for non-attendance during the first two weeks of the semester. However, instructors are not required to drop or disenroll you if you fail to attend or stop attending. You are responsible for dropping unwanted classes even if you informed the instructor. Do not simply stop attending without dropping through formal procedures.

Your failure to drop the class formally is very likely to result in an “F” or “WU” grade for the course. “WU” grades count as “F” grades in your grade point average. Never assume you have been disenrolled by an instructor if you never attended or stop attending a class.

It is your responsibility to drop all classes in which you have been enrolled, regardless of whether or not you have attended.

The Chico State Portal provides online access to your grades from previous terms beginning with grades from Summer 1993 and thereafter. GRADES ARE NOT MAILED TO STUDENTS. You are asked to use your Portal account to be informed of your official grades after the end of the term. The Student Records and Registration Office will provide a printed grade report to students upon request only. Written requests may by made, specifying the semester for which grades are needed, to Student Records and Registration, CSU, Chico, Chico, CA 95929-0720, Attention: Grades.