Newsletter Spring 2010-11
Reminder: Add Day is Approaching
Just a friendly reminder that the last day for adding courses
and removing incompletes is this Friday, April 15th. Please
remember to bring your add cards to the Registrar's Office by
5:00pm on Friday.
IMPORTANT! Advising Requirement For All
Undergraduates
Caltech undergraduate students are required to meet one-on-one
with their advisers at least once a year.
Advisers have been given several online tools to record meetings
with their advisees and students will be able to see whether
they have satisfied the requirement through an Advising Status
presented on REGIS. Students who do not satisfy this advising
requirement before Add Day of spring term will be
placed on hold, preventing them from enrolling during online
registration for the following fall term. Students can download
a form and ask your adviser to sign as a way for you to initiate
contact with your adviser and fulfill the advising
requirement.
Several tools are available on REGIS to assist the faculty in
helping your advisees. Advisers you can record meeting notes
from advisee meetings, view previously entered notes, set
Advising Holds on students and indicate when an advisee’s
advising requirement has been met within the My Advisees
webpage.
The “Advising Arena” website at
http://www.registrar.caltech.edu/advising.htm describes the
details of the advising policies and online functionality. This
link is available within the REGIS application as well. Please
check it out! If you have feedback about the content, please let
the Registrar’s Office know and additional materials can be
added or updated.
Freshmen - Declare your Option
The
Registrar’s Office just emailed you regarding the
selection of your option. Please make sure to return the option
selection form to the Registrar's Office. Your new option
adviser will be assigned prior to online registration for fall
term.
Updated Office Hours
The Registrar’s Office will be closed between the hours of noon
and 1:00pm for lunch. So please visit
us between 8:00am and noon or between 1:00pm and 5:00pm. We will
remain open during the lunch hour on the
busiest days – first day of the term; Add Day; and Drop Day.
Thank
you for your kind consideration and please feel free to send us
any feedback that you have. If this becomes a burden to
students, we will revisit our decision.
Financial Aid Office has moved
The Financial Aid Office has moved to the second floor of the
new Undergraduate Admissions house, 383 S. Hill Avenue.
The new campus Mail Code is: 20-90. The Financial Aid phone
extensions remain the same
The
Financial Aid Office encourages other offices and departments to
consider hiring Federal and Caltech Work-Study students during
the 2011-12 academic year. Additional information about the
Work-Study Program can be found at
http://www.finaid.caltech.edu/workstudy.
TQFR Prize Winners and Excellent TAs for Winter Term
Many thanks to all of the students who evaluated their courses
through the TQFR. Your feedback and comments are very helpful to
the faulty and TAs. Here are the lucky prize winners of $20 gift
cards to Amazon.com from winter term:
Sachith Dunatunga, senior
Andrew Meng, sophomore
Victor Hsu , freshman
Tatyana Sales, junior
Ryan Denlinger, senior
Alison Parisian, sophomore
Taylor Martin, junior
We wanted to also congratulate the outstanding TAs who really
makes an impact:.
Nicholas Hoh, TA for ChE 151B
– Nick is a G3 in the PhD program in Chemical Engineering and
received overwhelming positive comments from the class. He was
known for going beyond the requirements of the TA position “…by
essentially re-teaching parts of the class in office hours and
adding new materials along the way.” Another students claimed
…”it is always darkest before the dawn, but the dawn finally
came for us. The dawn was NICK HOH.”
Gemma Mason, TA for ACM95B/100B
– Gemma, a G3 in the PhD program in ACM, received lots of
praise from students who were from other sections as well as her
own section! Several students remarked that she is such a great
TA that she needs a bigger room – one student claimed “…Super at
teaching! Deserves the auditorium…maybe even the regular
lectures.” Apparently students had to stand in the back and sit
on the floor. Now that’s a sign of an excellent TA!
Brandon Wadas, TA for Bi/Ch 111
– Brandon is a G3 in the PhD program in Biology. Faculty at
Caltech have indicated that is he extraordinarily good and puts
in long hours. He’s described as “especially good at bringing
out the big picture during the recitations sections.” His
leadership and guidance allow students to think about the
cutting edge experiments in the field. As one undergraduate put
it, “Best TA I’ve had at Caltech, Brandon Wadas!”
Thanks to Nick, Gemma, and Brandon, for making a difference in the academic lives of
the undergraduates. We appreciate all of the time and effort
that you put into your work with students. Again, thanks so much
for doing such a great job in the classroom!
Comments
on Core Curriculum Changes Sought
The Committee
on Undergraduate Education (CUE)
was asked to oversee the implementation of changes to the core
in conjunction with the Core Curriculum Steering Committee. CUE
created a
webpage
that contains documents relevant to the core curriculum
revisions, including links to the minutes of relevant Faculty
Board and Faculty meetings, samples of course syllabi, and
documents that were developed from the Core Curriculum Task
Force. On the left hand navigation is a link to the feedback
form in case you would like to share any thoughts or concerns.
Changes in Advanced Hums for Class of
2015
Effective for the new class of 2015, the two required advanced
humanities classes must be taken on grades and cannot include
foreign language. Foreign language classes can still be used to
fulfill the four additional HSS classes that are also required.
Grad Fair - April 20th
Stop by the Grad Fair, Wednesday, April 20th from 10am to 3pm in
front of the Bookstore. See
samples of rings, frames and
announcements. Take care of all your Graduation needs!
Commencement
2011
This year's commencement ceremony will be held Friday, June 10th
on Beckman Mall. All undergraduates participating in the
ceremony should be at the steps of Parsons-Gates by 8:45am that
day for a group photo. Graduate students should arrive by
9:15a.m. For further information, please see
http://commencement.caltech.edu.
Important
Dates
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April 15 |
Last day
for adding courses and removing incompletes |
| |
April 27 - May 3 |
Midterm
examination period |
| |
May 9 |
Midterm
Deficiency Notices due to the Registrar’s Office & Last
day for
seniors to remove conditions and incompletes |
| |
May 13 |
Last day
for scheduling examinations for the degrees of Doctor of
Philosophy and Engineer |
| |
May 18 |
Last day
to drop classes or to exercise your P/F option |
| |
May 19 |
First
day of registration for summer and fall term |
| |
May 27 |
Last day of
classes - seniors and graduate students
Last day for presenting theses for the degrees for
Doctor of Philosophy and Engineer |
| |
May
30 |
Memorial Day (Institute Holiday) |
| |
June 1-3 |
Final
examinations for seniors and graduate students |
| |
June 3 |
Last day of
classes for undergraduates; Last day to register for
summer and fall terms |
| |
June 6 |
Final grades for
seniors and graduate students due - 9 a.m. |
| |
June 8-10 |
Final
examinations for undergraduates |
| |
June 10 |
Commencement |
| |
June 15 |
Final grades for
undergraduates due - 9 a.m. |
| |
June 22 |
UASH Meeting |
| |
September
26 |
Classes begin
for fall term |
