Applying for Graduation

Students who are potential graduates in May or August should apply to graduate by the March 1^st deadline. Students who are expected to complete in August will attend the May commencement ceremony.

Potential August graduates will receive correspondence regarding remaining course requirements via email once registration begins. 

For any questions, contact Ragin El-Shater at (717) 736-4147 (Internal: X214147)

Clarifying Roles in Counseling and Advising

This document helps to outline the vision and direction we have for the various roles in Counseling and Advising.

Please note that you may be prompted to sign in to myHACC to view the document.

Veterans and GI Benefits -- Online Remedial Classes

As per Dean Myers, Director of Veteran's and Military Affairs for HACC:

"Veterans who are using GI Bill benefits cannot take online remedial courses (the VA will not pay for those); veterans have to take remedial courses on campus. We tell veteran students this point during their brief they get with us, but it seems they forget or overlook the fact when registering for classes with their advisor."

Clarifying the FYS Course Requirement

There has been some confusion over the past few semesters about FYS courses as a graduation requirement. After discussion with the Associate Provost and the Dean of Student and Academic Success, our stance regarding FYS courses and graduation should be as follows:

1. FYS courses are required for graduation, a point that is outlined in the SGP attached to this email.  (See 1.e under “Policy” on Page 2 of the “Shared Governance Policy…”.)
   
2. The FYS requirement is essentially a “hidden pre-requisite” (similar to developmental classes) rather an explicit requirement, so it will not be captured in a CAPP report, but it is required nonetheless.
   
3. The application of an advising code to students who don’t meet the FYS requirement is our only current “control” to ensure that students meet the FYS requirement.
   
4.  If students ask us if the FYS course is a graduation requirement, our answer should be “Yes, as per college policy, the FYS course is a graduation requirement.
   
5. ”If the student persists in asking why he or she needs to take the course, I suggest you use the attached handout “Why Do I Needto Take an FYS Course” or share this video with the student to help him or her understand the need for completion of the FYS requirement: https://youtu.be/LJAhclnRCX4.
   
   
   Remember that the FYS required courses will be included as an explicit graduation requirement (and in CAPP reports) beginning in all degree programs in Fall 2018, but, until then, I recognize that this situation is less than ideal for our work with students. However, data that we’ve collected – and the available national-level data – very much supports the benefits of student success courses for college students. Therefore, it is essential that we continue to advocate for and require students to take the courses. 

Registration Portal Updates Video

This short video is meant to accompany the previous post and exemplify the recent registration portal updates. 

myHACC Registration Portal Changes

I am writing to update you on some important changes that are being made to the myHACC course registration portal. These changes are the result of your feedback and your desire to streamline the path to success for our students. The overarching purpose of these changes is to improve the search functionality in the myHACC registration portal and to enable students to find classes more easily.

Therefore, it is important to outline these changes and to make the following points clear to you as faculty and staff who support the registration/enrollment process.

1) We are removing the individual search field for “Course Number.” This field will be replaced by the combined “Subject and Course Number” search field.  As students begin typing the subject (e.g. English), a dropdown menu of all available choices in that subject will appear, including those courses that have the suffix of ST or H.

2) Students can still choose multiple subjects/courses for the search:

3) Students can still do a search by subject alone to list all course offerings for that subject:

4) Finally, we have also added the Attribute search field. This functionality will allow students to search for courses based on an assigned attribute (e.g. Core A, Core B, Core C, Diversity). Students may also choose multiple search criteria for this field as well.

These changes, as previously noted, reflect feedback that you’ve given to us about the myHACC registration portal. We believe these changes will benefit our students and enable easier searching and registration for classes.

Thank you for your continued patience as we refine this registration tool.

Additionally, special thanks are extended to Crystal Scheib and Christina Dietz for making these changes to improve the portal!

 

General Education Core List -- Fall 2017

The updated General Education Core List of classes for Fall 2017 is now available at this link.

Please note that you may be prompted to sign in to myHACC to access the list.