Ellington

With the spring enrollment rapidly approaching, First-Year Salon classes are making sure that freshmen are enrolling in the right classes. Most freshmen have not experienced an enrollment process quite like the one implemented at Baker University and it has some students worried.

“I am nervous about getting the classes I want,” freshman Hannah Geenens said. “I have all my classes planned out and if I don’t get them it won’t be okay with me.”

The First-Year Salon classes have been working hard to prepare freshmen for enrollment on Nov. 8.

Freshmen have been meeting with their salon course instructors to plan the spring schedules out as well as come up with some alternative options in case classes are full.

Some salon classes are even taking the enrollment process to the next level.

Dean of Students Cassy Bailey and salon student leader Stacy Yowell are hosting an enrollment party for the class to enroll and enjoy breakfast afterward.

“The enrollment party is scheduled for the time that freshmen students are eligible to enroll,” Yowell said. “I highly encouraged my students to attend to enroll and enjoy a delicious breakfast.”

Bailey and Yowell have also reserved a computer lab in the library, right down the hall from the information technology office.

Most freshmen have discussed with their adviser their spring class schedule and have picked out classes they want and need to take for their respective majors.

This will be the second semester that students are able to enroll at 7 a.m., whereas in the past, students have were able to enroll at midnight.

Bailey said this is an positive change.

“The IT offices will be open so they don’t have to wait all those hours before when it (enrollment) happened at midnight,” Bailey said. “When they had a hold or an IT concern they would have had to wait eight or so hours to fix it, and now we can rectify these issues right away.”

While IT issues are concerns for some, freshmen also enroll on the last date of the enrollment period.

“I think freshmen get the short end of stick since they enroll last,” Bailey said. “There really isn’t another way to do that.”

Bailey stresses that freshmen need to be flexible and have many options when it comes to selecting their classes for the next semester

“You will be shut out of classes,” Bailey said. “You may have to go with plan b but sometimes plan b is just as good, if not better than plan a.”

Freshmen students are required to enroll in a Liberal Studies class (LS112), a salon or honors salon class (SN102 or HN102), as well as a linked course.

Once these requirements are met, freshmen students may enroll in whatever classes they choose.