This may be a duplicate message. Because it is important I am sending it again. As you know the email at the College is not doing so well right now and the information below is very important.
Students,
Welcome to the Byzantine bureaucracy. By now you should have received the announcement that we are moving to new software called CUNYfirst. It will be replacing a number of older programs including the registration software. There have been number of glitches in the software and there is still some doubt about the implementation process. We are as much in the dark as you are concerning this issue. Please take note of the following:
1. Right now we are blocked from making any changes in the Spring Course schedule that was due on October 1st using the old software 2. Because of budget problems at the University/College we have had to cut the adjunct budget by 10% which has resulted in reduced course offerings 3. No classes with fewer than fifteen students [excluding labs where there are fewer than fifteen seats] will be offered 4. We are unsure if CUNYfirst will work as promised so be prepared – expect the best and plan for the worst 5. Ignore the GSLIS course listing on the QC website, but not the listing on the GSLIS website [see below] 6. Pre-registration has been put off by the College until November 22nd 7. We will be conducting our own pre-registration as soon as we get the necessary new course codes, section numbers etc. 8. Stay tuned for information regarding the GSLIS pre-registration times, dates etc. which will be coming soon
In order to make our part a bit smoother we have done the following:
At the bottom of the GSLIS departmental web site you will find “Spring 2011 Registration Information” with three links a. Schedule of Classes for the Spring – here you will find the actual course listing which you should be consulting b. Current Course Listing – this is an up-to-date list of all of our courses c. Course Rotation – this shows the semesters that various courses are scheduled to be offered [Spring 2011-Fall 2016]
Note that GSLIS 767 has 25 hours of field work and that 761 and 764 are school media specialist courses and have limited appeal to those not in that sequence.
As I said above – Stay Tuned!
-- chirp elt
Dr. Thomas T. Surprenant Professor & Acting Chair/Director Queens College Graduate School of Library & Information Studies