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Students urged to register now for spring term
The Advocate
With spring term just a month away, MHCC’s Peggy Maas, director of admissions and registration, said Tuesday students that have attended MHCC should register as soon as possible before classes get full.
“Anybody who’s ever attended within the last year and who have credits earned at Mt. Hood can register now,” said Maas.
According to the registration calendar, web registration began Feb. 19 at midnight for students graduating in spring or summer of 2010. Maas said that if students apply now for graduation, they will be in the system and “get first shot at the classes” without worrying about being on a wait list.
Starting March 1, open registration will be available for all students both on the web and in person. Spring term begins March 29.
Out of the 1,241 students that registered, 1,111 registered on the college website.
“It’s taken a few years, so were trying to get students to feel more comfortable using it (the website),” said Maas.
Fall term generally has much higher enrollment than winter and spring terms, said Maas. However, she said the current economic situation may change the way people think about going to school in the spring.
“With the economy the way it’s been, maybe people will think more about going (to school) in nicer weather,” said Maas. “Community colleges any term is a beginning term for somebody.”
Maas said classes that typically fill up the fastest are math and writing classes. “It seems like every term the math and writing (classes) have wait-lists because students can’t move on until they get those basics done,” said Maas.
For students registering in the spring, Maas’s advice is to talk to an adviser.
“They should probably talk to an adviser as soon as they can, depending on their educational goal,” said Maas. “They need to work with an adviser because a lot of times they might not know that a certain course is only offered in the spring or that they need to take this course first before they can take the next course. So we’re trying to get all their ed planning done as soon as possible.”
Maas also recommends students who are in line to graduate to apply for graduation. “A lot of times we get students who don’t realize they have to apply for graduation and then they apply in April and find out they need one class and it’s too late to register. If they think they’re close, they should apply for graduation.”
For more information on graduation, Maas said to go to the college website under “current students” and look for “graduation info.”
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