UNDERGRADUATES: IMPORTANT DATES, FALL 2006
Registrar related deadlines are taken from the Office of the Registrar. Dates are subject to change. Check the Registrar's website for the latest information.
Friday, September 1, 2006
- Financial Aid Recipients: Update your permanent address on GOLD by Friday, September 1, 2006, for your fall 2006 refund check mailing. If you want your refund check to be mailed to your permanent or billing address, please contact the Billing Office prior to September 1.
- Address Updates: Address updates can be made using GOLD.
- Undergraduate Fee Payment Deadline: Fee Payment Deadline for undergraduate students. Undergraduate students who still have a balance due must pay or defer this balance, to avoid a $50 late payment fee. Students can view their BARC account balances at https://mybarc.ucsb.edu.
- Direct Deposits: all students, including new and graduate students, will have their direct deposits released starting on September 18. Click here for more information regarding refund checks.
- Continuing Undergraduate Class Space Deadline: In order for continuing undergraduate students to maintain registered status and protect class space, all "now due" charges listed on the September BARC statement must be paid by this date. Students who did not receive a September BARC statement by September 1 should view their BARC account balance at https://mybarc.ucsb.edu or contact the Billing Office for the balance information. Students whose payment is received after this date are subject to losing their registered class space. Notification of failure to meet this deadline will be sent to email addresses.
- After 4 p.m. on this date, registration for undergraduate students will not be processed without prior payment of fees.
- Graduate Students: Last day to Advance to Doctoral Candidacy and pay $65 Advancement fee to be eligible for nonresident tuition reduction for fall 2006.
- Last day to file a thesis or dissertation using fees paid spring 2006; degree awarded fall 2006.
- Last day to submit an In Absentia petition.
- Fall 2006 quarter begins.
- New Student Convocation: All new freshmen and transfer students are expected to attend this campus ceremony designed to welcome and induct new students into the university community, 3:00-4:00 p.m. on the Faculty Club Green, near the campus lagoon.
- Pre-instructional activities: counseling, testing, academic advising.
- Fall 2006 Instruction begins.
- New and Returning Registration Deadline: Registration deadline for new and returning students. After this date new and returning students will be assessed a $50 late registration fee.
- Graduate Fee Payment Deadline: Fee payment deadline for graduate students. Graduate students who still have a balance due must pay or defer this balance by 4 p.m., to avoid a $50 late payment fee. Students can view their BARC account balances at https://mybarc.ucsb.edu. Graduate students who are not paid will not be allowed to continue with registration until fee payment is made.
- Petitions: Office of the Registrar begins processing schedule adjustment petitions. Photo ID required. All other schedule adjustment transactions, including adding classes using approval codes, should be completed via GOLD.
- College of Creative Studies Students: Last day for College of Creative Studies students, enrolling only in CCS courses, to register for fall 2006.
- Residency: Deadline for continuing, nonresident students to apply for reclassification as California residents.
- Address Confirmations or Updates: Confirmation/updates of your addresses should be processed through use of GOLD. If you are employed by the university you must also update your address separately with your employing department.
- Schedule Adjustment Fee: Last day for all students to drop courses without a $3 fee per drop transaction (by 11:45 p.m. via GOLD).
- Add Deadline: Last day for all students to add courses without a course approval code (by 11:45 p.m. via GOLD).
- Late Registration Deadline: Late registration ends for all students. Lapse in status as a student in the university may occur unless fees and all other financial obligations have been paid, registration has been completed, and blocks on registration (if any) have been cleared. Enrollment will not be accepted after this date.
- Graduate Leave of Absence: Last day to file for leave of absence with Graduate Division for fall 2006.
- Drop Writing Courses: Last day for undergraduate students to drop Writing 1, 1E, 2, 2E, 2LK, 50, 50E without petition (by 11:45 p.m. via GOLD).
- Schedule Adjustment Fee: Last day for students to add courses without paying $3 fee.
- Grading Option Adjustment Fee: Last day for students to change grading option without paying $3 fee.
- Graduation Deadline: Last day to declare candidacy for the fall 2006 undergraduate degree using GOLD .
- Add Deadline: Last day for all students to add classes at the Office of the Registrar by 4 p.m. or via GOLD by 11:45 p.m.
- Drop Deadline: Last day for undergraduates in the Colleges of Letters and Science and Engineering to drop classes at the Office of the Registrar by 4 p.m. or via GOLD by 11:45 p.m.
- End of first half of quarter. The Winter 2007 Schedule of Classes will be available in the bookstore in late October.
- Holiday: Veterans Day holiday.
- Grading Option Deadline: Last day for undergraduates in the Colleges of Letters and Science and Engineering to change grading option in courses from passed/not passed to letter-grade or vice versa at the Office of the Registrar by 4 p.m. or via GOLD by 6:45 p.m.
- Holidays: Thanksgiving holidays.
- Dead Week. Examinations are strongly discouraged and mandatory non-instructional activities require advance approval from the Office of Student Life.
- Fall 2006 Instruction ends.
- Graduate and College of Creative Studies Students: Last day for graduate students and students in the College of Creative Studies to drop courses or change grading options at the Office of the Registrar by 4 p.m. or via GOLD by 6:45 p.m.
- Incomplete Petitions: Last day for undergraduates in the Colleges of Engineering and Letters & Science to submit a petition for complete withdrawal
- Study Day: No classes and no finals held.
- Final Examinations. Click here for Fall 2006 Final Examination Schedule.
- Graduate Students: Deadline for Graduate students to present theses and dissertations to Graduate Division to receive a fall 2006 degree.
- Incomplete Petitions: Last day to submit Incomplete petitions with instructor signature at the Office of the Registrar by 4 p.m.
- Fall 2006 quarter ends.
- Degree Candidates: Degree candidates must have all transfer work and coursework completed no later than this date for current quarter graduation.
- Grades: Fall 2006 grades available on GOLD.
- Graduate Students: Last day to file a thesis or dissertation using fees paid fall 2006; degree awarded winter 2007.