UNM’s Bursar’s Office is where students and parents take care of business. The Bursar Web site is a great place to start and is updated to reflect the spring ’08 semester.

One very important change is that the terminology for disenrollment is now “enrollment cancellation.” The Enrollment Cancellation deadline for spring is Jan. 11 at 5 p.m.

Students permitted to register for the spring semester must pay tuition, fees, and all outstanding charges by the Enrollment Cancellation deadline. Students who set up a payment plan on LoboWeb by the deadline will also be cleared from Enrollment Cancellation.

Students who fail to meet the deadline will have their registration cancelled and be removed from all classes. Students with cancelled registration who wish to be enrolled at UNM must re‐register. The student will be required to make full payment, or complete financial arrangements for all university charges, and pay a non refundable reregistration/late registration fee.

If a student is removed tuition and most fees are refunded in full. 

Students can log onto https://my.unm.edu and click on the “Student Life” tab to check Bursar status. The Enrollment Cancellation balance option is available about two weeks before the Enrollment Cancellation date.

One of the nation’s most respected college surveys issued a report this week challenging the “helicopter parent” stereotype.

In fact, students with hovering parents are not only happier, they “trumped their peers on every measure we use,” says Indiana University’s George D. Kuh, survey director.

Data from 24 colleges and universities gathered for the National Survey of Student Engagement show that students whose parents were very often in contact with them and frequently intervened on their behalf “reported higher levels of engagement and more frequent use of deep learning activities,” such as after‐class discussions with professors, intensive writing exercises and independent research, than students with less‐involved parents.

For more, see articles published in the Washington Post or InsideHigherEd.