NJCU Registration Silver Lining?
By: Carol Alberque, Joanne Antoine, Danielle Church, Lyle Hickman, Rana Stanley
Issue date: 4/28/09 Section: News
Though the process of class registration at New Jersey City University can be a hassle for students, it is one that has been improving somewhat in relation to other universities.
Since 2005, NJCU's registration process has been available online through the school's web portal, GothicNet. Despite a few glitches in the system every now and then, it has been received well by the campus community.
"Online registration is a dream," said Monica Almonor, an Associate Registrar at NJCU. "It empowers students. It makes [registration] convenient for them, especially for the nontraditional students who work late and may not have the time to come [to campus]."
In order to register online, a student must first meet with an advisor to have their advisement hold lifted. Students may also have financial holds when they have to pay any balances left on their account or have to set up a payment plan before the hold can be lifted. Once these holds are cleared, students can log in online and choose their own courses.
"Last semester was complicated because of the advisement hold," said John Ida, a 25-year-old finance major from Harrison, NJ. "I didn't know what that was."
"Ideally, you should go over your planning sheet to make sure you are taking classes you need," said Navin Saiboo, an Associate Registrar at NJCU.
Although students are able to choose their own courses, the prevailing grievance from NJCU students' lies in being misadvised.
"In the beginning I found the registration process at NJCU rather difficult," said Sara Moje, a 31-year-old guidance counselor from Jersey City who attended NJCU from 1995 through 2001. "During my first three semesters, before I declared a major, I had a different advisor each time, and the advisor didn't know me at all."
One of the major problems seems to be the lack of personal attention given to a student by their advisor.
"My advisors were not always willing to help coordinate my schedule," said Moje. "They seemed to just want to put me into whatever class first came up in the computer."
Since 2005, NJCU's registration process has been available online through the school's web portal, GothicNet. Despite a few glitches in the system every now and then, it has been received well by the campus community.
"Online registration is a dream," said Monica Almonor, an Associate Registrar at NJCU. "It empowers students. It makes [registration] convenient for them, especially for the nontraditional students who work late and may not have the time to come [to campus]."
In order to register online, a student must first meet with an advisor to have their advisement hold lifted. Students may also have financial holds when they have to pay any balances left on their account or have to set up a payment plan before the hold can be lifted. Once these holds are cleared, students can log in online and choose their own courses.
"Last semester was complicated because of the advisement hold," said John Ida, a 25-year-old finance major from Harrison, NJ. "I didn't know what that was."
"Ideally, you should go over your planning sheet to make sure you are taking classes you need," said Navin Saiboo, an Associate Registrar at NJCU.
Although students are able to choose their own courses, the prevailing grievance from NJCU students' lies in being misadvised.
"In the beginning I found the registration process at NJCU rather difficult," said Sara Moje, a 31-year-old guidance counselor from Jersey City who attended NJCU from 1995 through 2001. "During my first three semesters, before I declared a major, I had a different advisor each time, and the advisor didn't know me at all."
One of the major problems seems to be the lack of personal attention given to a student by their advisor.
"My advisors were not always willing to help coordinate my schedule," said Moje. "They seemed to just want to put me into whatever class first came up in the computer."
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