Student Success & Persistence
Find connections to resources by these topic areas:
- Academic Planning
- Academic Performance
- Basic Student Needs
- Identity & Student Populations
- Experiential Learning & Postgraduate Life
- Paying for College
- Additional Personal and Success Support
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Student Success & Persistence
- Academic Planning
- Adding Classes (also see Semester Dates to Observe below)
- Online through Student Center (prior to full semester last day to add course without department approval)
- Add Form - Use for adding courses with approval.
- Dropping Classes (also see Semester Dates to Observe below)
- Online through Student Center (prior to full semester last day to drop course with no report)
- Drop Form - Use for dropping course once semester has begun
- Declaring a Major
- Declaration of Curriculum Form
- This form MUST be sent from student’s UNI email to registrar@uni.edu or submitted in person (with a photo ID) to the Office of the Registrar in Gilchrist 115.
- This form MUST be sent from student’s UNI email to registrar@uni.edu or submitted in person (with a photo ID) to the Office of the Registrar in Gilchrist 115.
- Declaration of Curriculum Form
- Exploring/Changing Majors
- Office of Academic Advising
- Student can complete this Academic Advising Assistance Request Form to receive assistance from an academic advisor in the Office of Academic Advising.
- Student can complete this Academic Advising Assistance Request Form to receive assistance from an academic advisor in the Office of Academic Advising.
- Office of Academic Advising
- Schedule of Classes
- Semester Dates to Observe
- Transfer College Credit
- Office of Admissions
- College and Test Credit
- For faculty/staff questions about Transfer Course Articulation - Danielle Weide (Associate Director, Transfer Recruitment)
- Office of Admissions
- Undergraduate Student Request
- UNI Foundational Inquiry (UNIFI) / General Education
- University Academic Catalog
- Adding Classes (also see Semester Dates to Observe below)
- Academic Performance
- Academic Standing
- Academic Support / Tutoring / Coaching
- Disabilities & Accommodations
- Financial Aid
- Consortium Agreements
- Allows a student to count credit hours taken at another school towards enrollment status at UNI to maintain eligibility for the maximum amount of financial aid.
- Satisfactory Academic Progress (Appeal Form, Plan of Study, FAQs)
- Reviewed annual at end of spring semester, students who do not meet Satisfactory Academic Progress (SAP) requirements, will be placed on Financial Aid Suspension and must appeal to have aid reinstated for future semesters.
- Withdrawing and Dropping Classes
- Consortium Agreements
- Honors Program
- University Honors Program (including Legacy and Bright Scholars)
- University Honors Program (including Legacy and Bright Scholars)
- Panther Access, Connection & Engagement (PACE) Program (Office of Academic Advising)
- Success Coaches
- Basic Student Needs
- Course Textbooks
- Food & Housing Insecurity
- Mental Health
- Parking & Transportation
- Parking Division - Department of Public Safety
- Multimodal Transportation Center
- Includes links to campus bike locker rentals as well as to Metropolitan Transit Authority (MET) bus schedules, fares and transfer information
- Includes links to campus bike locker rentals as well as to Metropolitan Transit Authority (MET) bus schedules, fares and transfer information
- Physical Health & Wellness
- Student Care
- Dean of Students
- Serves as the centralized hub and a partner to students, parents, family, faculty/staff in assisting students and providing coordinated care efforts to students experiencing a variety of challenges during their educational career.
- Serves as the centralized hub and a partner to students, parents, family, faculty/staff in assisting students and providing coordinated care efforts to students experiencing a variety of challenges during their educational career.
- Dean of Students
- Technology Access
- Identity & Student Populations
- Center for Multicultural Education
- Gender and Sexuality Services
- International Students
- Military and Veteran Students
- Center for Multicultural Education
- Experiential Learning & Postgraduate Life
- CoOp & Internships
- Job Search & Workplace Preparation
- Student Involvement
- Office of Student Involvement
- Panther FYI - Find Your Student Involvement
- Provides opportunity to connect with student organizations that match interests as well as create an out of the classroom resume of student organizations and engagement.
- Provides opportunity to connect with student organizations that match interests as well as create an out of the classroom resume of student organizations and engagement.
- Volunteering
- Paying for College
- Financial Aid/FAFSA Counseling
- On-Campus Student Employment
- Scholarship
- Additional Personal & Success Support
- Office of Civil Rights Compliance
- The Office of Civil Rights Compliance (OCRC) is responsible for
- Ensuring equal opportunity in education and employment for our faculty, staff and students and to assure compliance with Title VII, Title IX, the ADAAA and other civil rights-based legislation.
- Handling reports of discrimination, harassment and sexual misconduct and for providing supportive measures, resources and options to impacted individuals.
- The Office of Civil Rights Compliance (OCRC) is responsible for
- Student Conduct
- Office of Civil Rights Compliance