May 12, 2025
News
NEW: International Guests
If you are inviting international guests to campus who will be traveling here from outside the US, please share the guest’s name, title, visit date(s), and reason for the visit with the Provosts’ Office. Our office will create a formal letter of invitation for the guest, which they can have with them for Customs and Border Protection screenings, should this information be requested. Please send visit details to Sally Pierce.
Self-Scheduled Exams
If you would like to use the self-scheduled exam process for your exams on June 7, 8, and 9, please respond by mid-term break to the email from Karen Moldenhauer dated April 10th. If you already responded, there’s no need to do anything further. More information about the self-scheduled exam process can be found on the Registrar’s website under the Exams heading.
Advising
Advising Days are Here!
The official advising period runs from May 14 through May 23. Please schedule your advising sessions to discuss fall term course registration.
Registration for Fall Term 2025
Priority Registration will open for class years 2026-2028 during the below dates. Registration changes can be made until Sunday, September 21 at 11:59 pm (the end of Drop/Add period). Each registration date has an early, midday, and afternoon time slot.
- Class of 2026: Thursday, May 22
- Class of 2027: Tuesday, May 27
- Class of 2028: Thursday, May 29
More information on priority registration can be found on the Registrar’s website.
New Fall Term Courses
One of the Workday reports designed to help advisers encourage their advisees to explore the curriculum is the Newly Added Courses report. You can access this report via your “My Advisees” dashboard under the tab “Additional Reports,” or by typing “Newly Added Courses” in the universal search bar in Workday.
Changes to Certain Courses Beginning Fall 2025
Non-Credit Lab Registration
Starting with Fall 2025 registration, courses with integrated, non-credit labs will appear in Workday as two separate components—lecture and lab. Students will be required to register for both components at the time of registration. This mirrors the existing structure for courses with for-credit labs, which are not affected by this change. The update allows for improved waitlist management and greater scheduling flexibility. Courses with non-credit labs will still appear as a single course on student transcripts. Please see our help article for more information and FAQs about this change.
Music (MUSC) Course Subject Changes
Music (MUSC) courses have been given new subject headers to help increase visibility and to more accurately reflect course content and type. The new subjects are as follows:
- MUSL: Music Lessons
- MUSE: Music Ensembles
- MUSC: Music Studies courses
Writing Portfolios Due Friday, May 16 at 4 p.m.
If you have any sophomore advisees still working on their portfolio, please refer them to the Writing Center for help. They are able to help them select which papers to include, revise papers for submission, and craft the reflective essay. If you want to share a quick overview of the requirements to share with your advisees, refer them to this video: View a video that will take you through the basic requirements. If your advisees have specific questions, have them contact George Cusack.
Departmental Advising Plans
As departments meet during the spring term to plan for next year, the distribution of advising should be a primary consideration. We will reach out to department chairs and program directors and ask them to submit advising plans that indicate the names of colleagues who will have capacity to take on liberal arts advisees and the numbers (or the range) of slots that they anticipate. This information will allow us to see how much capacity each department has for liberal arts advising. Please note that this is not a binding number, but a useful guide. We will then reach out to departments and individual faculty to discuss their advising loads. Our office will begin to assign advisers to the Class of 2029 in mid-August after they select their A&I seminars.
Refer Sleepy Students to Sleep Coaching!
A recent 2024 survey revealed that 79% of Carls on average feel tired or sleepy on at least 3 days of the week. Have you worked with a student recently that has expressed struggling with their sleep? We can help!
The Office of Health Promotion (OHP) offers peer Sleep Coaching to help students identify areas in which they might be able to make adjustments to improve their sleep. We invite you to encourage students to request a sleep coaching session with a Student Wellness Advocate, so that they might get the support they need to have more energy throughout their week.
Questions? Email healthpromotion@carleton.edu.
Important Spring Term Advising Dates and Deadlines
- Wednesday, May 14 – Friday, May 23: Advising Days
- Friday, May 16: Ten Week Course Late Drop Deadline and S/CR/NC Deadline 5:00 p.m.
- Thursday, May 22: Priority Registration for Fall Term Begins
- Friday, May 23: Second Five Week Course Late Drop Deadline and S/CR/NC Deadline 5:00 p.m.
- Thursday, May 29: Priority Registration for Fall Term Ends
- Wednesday, June 4: Last Day of Classes
- Thursday, June 5 – Friday, June 6: Reading Days
- Saturday, June 7 – Monday, June 9: Exams
- Wednesday, June 11: Senior Grades Due 8:30 a.m.
- Saturday, June 14: Commencement
- Wednesday, June 18: Grades Due 8:30 a.m.
Advising Quick Links
- Advising Handbook
- Forms and Decision Trees
- Advising Contacts
- Graduation & Major Requirements
- Academic Rules and Regulations
- Off-Campus Study Programs
- Career Center Resources for Faculty & Advisers
- Office of Student Fellowships ‘For Advisors’ Page
Grants and Fellowships
Funding opportunities open for causal, policy-focused research
The Arnold Ventures Evidence and Evaluation team has reopened two funding opportunities focusing on causal, policy-focused research. The Strengthening Evidence RFP will fund rigorous randomized controlled trials (RCTs) that evaluate policy-relevant U.S.-based programs and policies. The Building Evidence RFP will fund rigorous, causal research using quasi-experimental methods that align with key AV policy areas: higher education, career education and training, infrastructure, contraceptive choice and access, and public finance.
Letters of interest are due June 13. For more information, contact the Grants Office.