The end of the Fall 2024 semester is fast approaching. Please review all of the information below and contact the COSSPP Academic Advising office with any questions at coss-advising@fsu.edu.
Topics Included:
- Registration for Spring 2025 classes
- Updated and limited advising availability
- Fall 2024 grades, academic standing, and drop petitions
- Applying late for Fall 2024 graduation
- Declare your minor or concentration for COSSPP majors
Who is your advisor? All degree checks and final graduation clearances for COSSPP students are conducted through the Office of Academic Affairs. Students may consult faculty and staff in the College’s academic departments and program offices on for their major or with other offices on campus for general purposes. However, they should not rely solely on information sources outside COSSPP advising office (including FSU faculty and staff, family, or friends) to confirm their remaining degree requirements and graduation timeline.
Registration for Spring 2025 classes
If you have not yet registered for Spring classes, do so as soon as possible and secure your seats.
Registration for Spring 2025 classes is open through Tuesday, December 31, at 11:59 pm EST.
Grades for the Fall 2024 semester will post on Wednesday, December 18 – review your grades and make any needed schedule adjustments prior to registration closing.
Even if you have not met with an academic advisor this semester to check your remaining requirements, you can still register for classes. Use available online tools to build your schedule: access the Academic Requirements Report or previous advising reports in Campus Connect to build a preliminary schedule. While the ARR does not always read all major requirements with 100% accuracy, it does provide a starting point for reference and good guidance for remaining General Education and Liberal Studies requirements.
Remember: if you have not spoken with an advisor this semester, continue to register but be sure to speak with someone and make any needed adjustments to your schedule prior to the start of Spring classes.
Updated and limited advising availability
With the end of the semester approaching and the University closure scheduled for winter break, please pay attention to the information below about upcoming advising availability.
December 2-20 – virtual drop-ins only after December 5
Academic advising is available during normal hours (with limited exceptions listed below) December 2-20.
After Thursday, December 5, all availability will be by virtual drop-ins to allow students the greatest flexibility and provide as much advisor availability as possible during finals week (December 9-13) and the week of grades posting (December 16-20).
Days with limited availability
- December 5-6: no afternoon availability (new student orientation)
- December 9: limited afternoon availability (new student orientation
- December 13: limited availability – Commencement day
Winter Break closure – December 21-January 5
University offices will be closed December 21 – January 5 for the Winter Break holidays.
Offices will reopen with regular business hours (8:00 am – 5:00 pm EST) on January 6.
Faculty and staff will not be available during the closure, and you should expect an extended delay in email response after reopening while messages are processed in the order they were originally received.
Spring 2025 drop/add (week of January 6-10)
All advising during the Spring 2025 drop/add period and for the week of January 6-10 will be via open Zoom call.
Additional information on drop/add advising availability can be found on the Drop/Add Week Information page on our website.
Fall 2024 grades, academic standing, and drop petitions
Grades for Fall 2024 classes are official when they post to student transcripts on Wednesday, December 18.
- Questions about any final grades? You must first contact the class instructor.
- Grades shown in a Canvas gradebook are not official and there may be differences in the grade listed in Canvas and the official grade on your transcript.
- Students wishing to dispute any final grade in a class must start the process by contacting their instructor as part of the formal grade appeal process.
If a student’s cumulative FSU GPA falls below a 2.0, they are placed on academic probation.
- Those on academic probation who fail to raise their cumulative FSU above 2.0 for a second consecutive semester are at risk of academic dismissal.
- All students not in good academic standing will receive additional information from the Office of Academic Affairs on December 18, after grades post.
Questions about course drops or semester withdrawals from all classes often come up at this point in the semester.
- For answers to most questions related to course drops and withdrawals, review the FAQ section on our website.
- After the end of the 12th week of classes, course drops and withdrawals may only be initiated on the basis of documented medical, mental health, or personal hardship circumstances.
- Dissatisfaction with the grade earned in a class or a desire to protect GPA are not grounds in themselves for petitioning for a course drop.
All drop and withdrawals petitions for upper-division COSSPP students are initiated online through the College’s Drop and Withdrawal Petition Application.
- Lower-division (pre- and NFA-) students must contact the Office of Undergraduate Studies as their academic dean’s office to discuss course drops or withdrawals.
- Double major or dual degree students with a primary major or degree in another college must contact that respective academic dean’s office.
Applying late for Fall 2024 graduation
If you plan to graduate this semester and did not apply to do so, you are not currently on the Fall 2024 graduation list.
To apply late, meet with a COSSPP academic advisor to receive an updated academic progress check. After verifying that you are on track to graduate, the advisor will initiate a late add to graduation form.
- You must be on track currently to complete all requirements with your current enrollment and already posted credit to be late added to the graduation list.
- The University Commencement ceremony is 2:00 pm EST on Friday, December 13. While it is still possible to participate in the ceremony, late additions at this point will not be included in printed program materials.
- Neither applying for graduation nor participation in Commencement guarantees graduation. Final graduation clearance reviews begin after grades post on December 18. Students who do not complete their degree requirements will be notified by January 5, 2025. Degrees will post to transcripts on January 9.
Declare your minor of concentration for COSSPP majors
Students with a primary major in COSSPP may declare a minor through our online minors request form if their major requires a minor. Concentrations in COSSPP majors may also be declared through the same form.
- You must be certified into your major (not pre- or NFA-) before officially declaring a minor or concentration.
- Allow up to a two business weeks for processing of your request. Questions about your request should be sent to the COSSPP Mapping Coordinator at COSS-Admissions-Mapping@fsu.edu.
- Dual degree students with a degree in another college: minors for the non-COSSPP degrees must be declared through that respective Dean’s office.