As an academic advisor, I love those times of the year when my students are signing up for courses. The pace picks up, the phone rings constantly and the office is alive with students. I love the meetings with my advisees, hearing about their successes and challenges at Granite State College and helping them to plan the coming semester.
During one registration period, I worked with a woman who had more than half of her bachelor's to complete. She had been happily taking two classes a term, but came to me one day with a dilemma. A job had opened up in the school where she worked and the position had been offered to her - contingent upon her finishing her degree in a very short period of time. In order to successfully meet her goal, she would have to take five or six classes a term for a year. She had two small children at home and a husband who had recently lost his job. They really needed for her to get the position. We discussed the incredible work load six courses a term would involve - but she was determined. As an advisor, I had to listen very carefully and judge whether or not I thought she was likely to succeed and help her to brainstorm strategies to do so.
Since two courses is considered a full time load at GSC, four courses is the maximum you can take without approval from the registrar. So....I listen carefully, believed her strategies would succeed, and wrote a request to the registrar. Approval was granted.
This woman successfully completed five or six courses per term for an entire year, taking both online and live college courses. Not only did she complete them, she completed them all with a B or better. She is now in her new position and grateful that GSC had the flexibility to work with her to provide the accelerated studies she needed.
Ahh.......I love my job!
During one registration period, I worked with a woman who had more than half of her bachelor's to complete. She had been happily taking two classes a term, but came to me one day with a dilemma. A job had opened up in the school where she worked and the position had been offered to her - contingent upon her finishing her degree in a very short period of time. In order to successfully meet her goal, she would have to take five or six classes a term for a year. She had two small children at home and a husband who had recently lost his job. They really needed for her to get the position. We discussed the incredible work load six courses a term would involve - but she was determined. As an advisor, I had to listen very carefully and judge whether or not I thought she was likely to succeed and help her to brainstorm strategies to do so.
Since two courses is considered a full time load at GSC, four courses is the maximum you can take without approval from the registrar. So....I listen carefully, believed her strategies would succeed, and wrote a request to the registrar. Approval was granted.
This woman successfully completed five or six courses per term for an entire year, taking both online and live college courses. Not only did she complete them, she completed them all with a B or better. She is now in her new position and grateful that GSC had the flexibility to work with her to provide the accelerated studies she needed.
Ahh.......I love my job!
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