New Update to MyCWU Page

The MyCWU student page is where you check your holds and where you enroll for classes as well as financial aid rewards. Gail Mackin, Associate Provost of Undergraduate and Faculty Affairs had a lot to say about this update to the student page. According to Mackin, part of doing this is having students taking apart in the what they are doing here.

“We have added student information so on their student page for the first time they can see who their advisors are in collaboration with what their academic plan is, their major and minors their current GPA the number of credits attempted, earned credits and what they are currently enrolled as far as credits,” Mackin said.

Applying for Majors and Minors Online

In an attempt to make things easy for students, they will be able to apply for or drop their major or minor online. The process will entail an advisor looking over the E-form which is an electronic online form. Then the advisor will either look at the academic standing of the student and then decide with a meeting with the advisor student or give a yes or no answer, depending on what the advisor wants. According to Mackin the E-form to drop or add a major will go live no later than Feb. 11.

Retention Plan

CWU currently has the early alert system in place which an instructor would fill out if a student is failing or not doing good in a class. This is the system instructors use to report a student. Mackin has a new plan that is a snapshot in time to see grades at a specific time in the quarter.

“[We are] devising a mechanism for gathering information about the progress of a student at a particular point and time during a quarter, so this is different than the early alert that can be used anytime for an individual course. What we are trying to gather is a snapshot in time of the progress of the student,” Mackin said.

The CWU Wildcat Shop wants to partner with faculty

The CWU Wildcat Shop wants to make sure that books do not run out for students. Amy M. Claridge, Ph.D. talked with the bookstore and got insight into how the textbook process works at CWU.

Students change their minds and sometimes buy books elsewhere. The Wildcat Shop can not buy back all of the books that they sell, making them give an estimate of how many will be bought.

“So when they decided how many books to purchase they look at several things. The biggest thing is course history. They try to look at how many students bought the book on average over several years,” Claridge said.

The CWU Wildcat shop is offering help to instructors by making scanned copies of the first few chapters of the textbook available if the instructors ask for them when a book is being shipped.