Spring 2018 classes are now visible in SPIRE, but the information you see right now may not be final, so do NOT fill your shopping cart until a day or two before your enrollment date. Here are some other helpful tips to keep you informed and help you through the enrollment process:

• Your SPIRE enrollment date should now be visible in the ‘Enrollment Dates’ box in the lower right of your student center.  You must click the ‘details’ link to find out what time you will be able to enroll on that date. Thousands of other people will also be enrolling in classes, so you should enroll as soon as possible after that time so that you won’t miss out on any important classes.

• Your enrollment date and time are assigned by the Registrar’s office, based on your cumulative credits and expected graduation term. You may not be enrolling at the same time as your friends, so be sure to put your enrollment date and time in your calendar so you don’t miss out.  Also, please do not contact your advisor to ask why you have been assigned a specific date or time, as we have NO control over this.

• If you have not been assigned an enrollment date and time for Spring 2018, go to the Registrar’s office in 213 Whitmore to find out what you should do.  Email or phone may also work, but they will take longer.

• You are NOT required to meet with an Economics advisor before you enroll UNLESS you have received an email from your advisor instructing you to make an appointment.

• If you see the words ‘Prevents enrollment’ in the ‘Holds’ box on the right side of your student center, you had better click the ‘details’ link and find out which office (bursar, Dean of Students, Academic Dean, UHS, etc.) put the hold on and what you have to do to get the hold removed. IMPORTANT NOTE: Your advisor can only remove holds that say you must meet with an advisor; we cannot remove holds placed by anyone else.

• If you plan to attend UMass as a full-time student next semester, you must enroll in at least 12 credits to ensure that the university does not drop you to part-time.  If this happens, you will have to submit a request to change your status back to full-time and it could negatively impact your financial aid or housing.

• If you are trying to get into an Economics class, you have checked the restrictions on the course page, and you are certain you should be eligible to enroll, but SPIRE will not allow you to enroll, email your PRIMARY advisor with a description of the situation and copy and paste the error message that SPIRE gave you into the email. (Your primary major is listed in the advisor box in the bottom-right corner of your student center.)  Please note that if you have not read the course restrictions and we find that you are not eligible to enroll, you should be prepared for a somewhat snarky response.

• If you are trying to get into a class that is not in the Economics department, you must contact the department that offers that class. Your Economics advisor cannot help you with that. And before you contact that other department, you had better be sure to read the restrictions to find out if you are eligible to enroll.  If not, you may just want to check again in a couple of weeks to see if they have opened the course to other majors.

• If you decide to change your schedule after you have enrolled, remember: SWAP, DON’T DROP. Use the Swap tab to change lectures or seminars, and use your Edit tab to change discussion sections within the same class.