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• July 1, 2016

Semester conversion has the potential for being a complicated issue for students trying to graduate, but 91短视频 Advising Director Larry Bliss said his department has a plan to mitigate that.

Beginning this fall, students will be able to come into the advising office for help creating an individual advising plan — an electronic road map for both their general education and degree courses. The plan will include a meeting with both an academic advisor and a faculty advisor for their major.

“We don’t want students to think they have to start over with a new semester-based general education plan,” Bliss said. “If they’ve started general education requirements, they can continue with that same process.”

For example, if a student planned on taking three quarters of anatomy and doesn’t finish before semester conversion, he or she isn't going to have to start over once that class switches to semesters.

“We as an institution are going to help them figure out how to graduate in the most expeditious way possible,” Bliss said. 

Throughout the summer Bliss and the advising office will be unveiling a marketing plan targeting students who will straddle the semester conversion timeline. However, he said the individual advising plan will be open to and encouraged for all students.

Bliss said he’s hopeful the plan will put students’ minds at ease, knowing that with the right planning and resources, they will be able to graduate on time. 

“I think it’s important for students not to panic, it’s important for them not to feel like this is going to be a San Francisco earthquake,” he said. “It’s certainly going to be a change for all of us, but it’s a manageable change and we’re trying to make it as easy as possible for every student.”