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Fall 2020 Validation

COVID-19 Notice: Important contact information for assistance with Validation

The Financial Aid Office will not be open for visitors during fall semester. Staff are working remotely and can be contacted by emailing [email protected] or calling 651-696-6214. If you wish to meet with a financial aid counselor, you can request a Zoom appointment by emailing your request to [email protected].

The Student Accounts Office will be open limited hours to accept payments from students for their student billing account during validation. Online payments can be made by logging on to 1600grand. Staff are working remotely and can be contacted by emailing [email protected] or calling 651-696-6161.

The Registrar’s Office will not be open for visitors during fall semester. Staff are working remotely and can be contacted by emailing [email protected].

Validation for Returning Students

Any returning student who registered for Fall 2020 classes (not study away) must validate their registration.

Here’s how to do that:

  1. Log onto 1600grand, click on the Student tab, go to the Registration header and click on Enter Profile. There you will see any validation holds you have by clicking on Holds in the top-right; a hold may be from Student Accounts, Health Services, the Registrar’s Office or other campus offices. Contact that office in order to resolve your hold. A more detailed description of the different hold types is available here.
  2. The Registrar’s Office will send an email to all students to inform you that all holds are placed. If you do not have any holds listed on 1600grand at that time, you have automatically been validated for fall—no need to check in with the Registrar’s Office.
  3. If you do have holds, you must make satisfactory arrangements to clear the hold. Once the Registrar’s Office is notified that you’ve cleared all holds, you will be validated. Validation should be completed the first day of class, Wednesday, September 2. The last possible day to validate is Wednesday, September 9.  This is also the Add/Drop deadline. If you don’t validate by the September 9 deadline, you will be dropped from all of your courses and lose your status as a student.
  4. When Add/Drop opens on the first day of class, feel free to change your schedule as needed on 1600grand. All course Adds require the instructor’s authorization. You may drop a course without authorization.
  5. If you decide not to return for fall semester, you must notify the Office of Student Affairs to arrange for a temporary or permanent withdrawal from the college.
  6. INTERNSHIPS for credit:  If you are planning or even contemplating the possibility of doing an internship for credit this semester, you should check in with the Internship Office immediately.  They have a form that signals your intent to do an internship that is required before the Add/Drop deadline of September9.

Late Registration

If you did not pre-register for Fall 2020 and need to begin the registration process, contact the Registrar’s Office to obtain a special registration form. You will need to obtain your academic adviser’s signature, the signatures of the instructors for ALL of your courses, and clearance from Student Accounts and Health Services. If you were on campus in the spring, you will be charged a $100.00 late fee to register for the fall semester, which is payable in cash or check at the time you register.

Registration or Validation Questions?

View our FAQs for more details about Validation and Registration. Have a change to your off-campus address? You can enter this in 1600grand: under the Contact Information header, click on Update Contact Information. For questions, please contact the Registrar’s Office by email ([email protected]). You must validate your registration on or before the first day of class.