Overview
The College of Liberal Arts Student Services (CLASS) is composed of fourteen affiliated offices that support students and advising functions for the college. Each office has a separate function and provides different resources to students.
The following document outlines the major duties of the CLASS offices. The person responsible for each of the major functions is listed in parentheses after the description.
Office of the Assistant Dean
Location and Contact information
106 Johnston Hall
(612) 625-3846
asstdean@class.cla.umn.edu
www.class.umn.edu/
This office houses the Assistant Dean of Student Services. The responsibilities of this office include:
- Student concerns and complaints
- Oversight of student communities (Mark Taylor)
- Student Scholastic Conduct Committee (Assistant Dean's Office)
- Student Scholastic Standing Committee (Mark Taylor)
- Committee on Appeals for Second Language (Ted Fitch)
- CLA technology fees (Lana Cusick)
- Web infrastructure (Colin DeLong)
- CLASS publications (Rich Sherman)
- Dean's list (Lana Cusick)
- Dean's certification (Lana Cusick)
- Reduced credit load requests (Mark Taylor)
- Academic Progress Audit System (Kristen Cullen)
- Prospective transfer students (Amy Rosenthal)
- Human resources (Assistant Dean's Office & Pat Delvecchio)
Career and Community Learning Center (CCLC)
Web site: www.cclc.umn.edu/
E-mail: cclc@class.cla.umn.edu
CCLC HAS 2 OFFICES:
CLA Career Services office
135 Johnston Hall
612-624-7577
www.cclc.umn.edu/
Service-Learning, Community Involvement and Off-Campus Study office
(serving all UMTC students)
345 Fraser Hall
(612-626-2044
www.servicelearning.umn.edu/
The Career and Community Learning Center is housed in two offices. It’s 135 Johnston Hall office is the CLA Career Services office, dedicated to helping CLA students explore majors, careers, grad schools, and job-search skills. (It’s also the pre-law advising office for all UMTC students.) CCLC’s 345 Fraser office offers programming to all UMTC students in the areas listed below.
Advisors are an integral part of informing students about CCLC services. As beneficial as these services are, many students don’t know about them until an advisor points them out. Thanks in advance for doing so.
Programs and resources through CCLC’s 345 Fraser Hall office:
- Community Engagement Scholars Program: Launched in 2005, this program allows students to receive official U recognition for public service. Students who sign up must fulfill service-learning requirements and projects to graduate with special honors.
- Info and advice about volunteering in the Twin Cities: Through personalized advising, CCLC helps students find public service opportunities that are a good match for their interests and goals.
- Service-learning classes: CCLC cultivates partnerships with faculty and nonprofits to develop a diverse array of courses, then helps plug in students.
- Trainings and presentations for students involved in community work or service-learning
- National Student Exchange (NSE): The NSE program gives students the chance to study at another campus in the U.S. or Canada for a semester or a year, while paying in-state tuition. CCLC administers NSE for U of M students.
- HECUA: These semester-long programs (16 credits) allow students to focus on social justice issues while studying off-campus in the Twin Cities. HECUA’s three local programs are Environmental Sustainability, City Arts, and Metro Urban Studies Term.
CCLC’s office in 135 Johnston Hall is the CLA Career Services office. Resources and programs available there include:
- Individual career counseling appointments
- A Resource Room where students can explore majors and careers. Students can browse on their own or get individual assistance. The Resource Room is filled with books, magazines, and handouts, as well as CCLC’s extensive “What Can I Do With a Major in ___?” collection. These binders offer in-depth info for every single major in CLA.
- 2-credit Career Courses: Career Exploration (ID 1201, aimed at freshmen and sophomores) and Career Planning (ID 3201, aimed at juniors and seniors)
- Free workshops, including Resume and Cover Letter Writing, Effective Interviewing, How to Apply to Law School, Job-Search Strategies, and more
- Many events, including: Graduate and Professional School Day, Community Involvement Fair, Job Search Jump Start, Exploring Interests and Majors, and many others.
- On-Campus Recruiting opportunities and events for CLA students
- Interest and personality style assessments, to help students decide about majors and potential careers
- Personalized resume and cover letter critiques, available without appointment in the CCLC Resource Room.
- Mock (practice) interviews, which are recorded and assessed by professional staff. These are free and by appointment only.
- The CLA Undergraduate Internship Grant, which funds CLA students doing unpaid internships
- The CLA Mentor Program, which connects students to working professionals over the span of a school year
- Guidance using GoldPASS, the U’s online database filled with job, internships and volunteer listings. The system was created specifically for U of M students and recent alumni.
- Recommendation Letters File (for students applying to grad/professional school)
- Graduate/professional school help, including information on entrance exams and personal statements
- Pre-law advising, available to all students on the Twin Cities campus.
- Outreach presentations in partnership with CLA student communities, departments, and student groups. Contact us if you would like us to present to any group of CLA students.
To learn more about any of these programs, events and services, please see www.cclc.umn.edu/ or feel free to visit or contact the CCLC offices.
Individualized Degree Programs
Location and Contact information
345 Fraser Hall
(612) 624-8006
idp@class.cla.umn.edu
http://idp.class.umn.edu/
The Individualized Degree Programs (IDP) office is the major program office for all Bachelor of Individualized Studies (BIS) degree students and Individually Designed Interdepartmental Major (IDIM) students. The BIS/IDIM advisers have the same duties as other major department advisers, including helping students to plan their major coursework and develop their senior projects, and keeping records of the students in the program.
Rebecca Rassier, the IDP Coordinator, is also the CLA coordinator for the Undergraduate Research Opportunities Program (UROP). She receives all of the liberal arts applications and administers the process by supporting the faculty committee that selects the grant winners.
Student Information Office
Location and Contact information
49 Johnston Hall
(612) 625-2020
sio@class.umn.edu
The functions of the Student Information Office fall into six broad categories: student support, program support (orientation and commencement), technical support, student records, department support, and administration/infrastructure (data, mail/messenger, keys). In the list below, functions are listed by the office’s four primary constituencies: students (new and continuing), student communities, CLASS as a whole, and department advisers. Staff with questions may contact the office coordinator, Lonna Riedinger, or the contact person listed for specific functions. Students will be best served by contacting the front desk rather than a particular staff member.
Services to new students
- Orientation/Registration information for new high school students (NHS), new advanced standing students (NAS), Intra-University transfer students (IUT)
- Advising meetings for Intra-campus transfers (ICT)
- Placement and proficiency testing information (usernames and passwords)
- Problem-solving
Services to continuing students
- Referrals to an advising office
- Problem-solving
- Application for Readmission: returning to school after an absence (Marianne Adelmann)
- Approvals for directed study, independent study, and extra credit (Carol Hondl)
- Placement and entrance proficiency testing (information; username and passwords)
- Application for degree (Carol Hondl)
- Commencement ceremony (Carol Hondl)
- CLA major/minor for students in another U of M college (Carol Hondl)
Services to student communities
- New student folders and papers (Marianne Adelmann)
- Orientation/registration support (Lonna Riedinger)
- Probation review (Carol Hondl)
- Dean's list letters (Carol Hondl or Lana Cusick)
- Entrance Proficiency Test (EPT) and Graduation Proficiency Test (GPT) results (Marianne Adelmann)
- Automatic language credit (Marianne Adelmann)
- Major/adviser coding
- Transfer files between offices
- Leave of absence entry (Marianne Adelmann)
- Degree applications and commencement (Carol Hondl)
- Readmission for degree applicants (Carol Hondl)
- Data support (e.g., high school prep) (Carol Hondl)
- Problem-solving (e.g., PeopleSoft) (Lonna Riedinger)
- E-mail to students (Lonna Riedinger)
- Listservs (Sean Burns)
Services to CLASS
- Updates to CLASS forms (Marianne Adelamnn)
- Data access (PeopleSoft, Language Testing, SecurIDs, datawarehouse) (Marianne Adelmann)
- Factbook (Carol Hondl)
- Keys (Marianne Adelmann)
- Messenger service (Marianne Adelmann)
- Tech support/network administration (Sean Burns)
- U.S. mail services
Services to departments
- Data requests (Carol Hondl)
- Student course reports for NAS (Lonna Riedinger)
- Dean's list (Carol Hondl)
- Degree applications and commencement information (Carol Hondl)
- Portfolio access (adviser coding) (Lonna Riedinger)
- Major/minor codes or subplans (Lonna Riedinger)
Student Communities
All of the CLA student communities perform basic functions that support students throughout their college career. These services are available in all CLA student communities:
- New and transfer student orientation
- Appointments with academic advisers
- Walk-in advising
- Group advising sessions
- Help in choosing a major
- Course planning
- Degree audits
- Planning for graduation
- Degree clearance
- Referrals to University resources
- Petitions for exemptions to deadlines and policies
- Probation review
- Assistance dealing with academic difficulties
- Computers that students may use to check email, look up academic information on the web, or write papers
- Maintaining and updating website content
- Outreach to major departments
Each community may offer other, specific services to their students, such as programming or events. A list of the CLA student communities and the majors that they serve is available on the Student Communities Contact Information page.
