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Graduation deadline

Max Brown
The Commuter

Thursday, January 14, 2010

The deadline to apply for spring term graduation is Jan. 29. Students hoping to graduate must have all appropriate paperwork filled out and turned in by then.

Usually the only two forms a student needs to fill out are the graduation application and a graduation worksheet. Some students may also need to turn in transcripts from other schools where they have earned credits.

Both forms can be found online at http://www.linnbenton.edu/go/forms, or in Takena Hall.

“It’s really a pretty easy process,” said Marilyn Hill, one of Linn-Benton Community College’s transcript/degree evaluators.

The graduation application requires information about what type of degree the student is applying for and general information about that student.

The worksheet tells students which classes are required for the degree they are applying for. The student must show that they have taken all the classes and list any substitutions. When LB is checking the worksheet they will be comparing it to the student’s transcript to make sure they have taken all of the correct classes.

Tammi Drury, a transcript/degree evaluator, said, “It’s very important to work with your adviser all the way through the process, because some students are going to have classes substituted, and that has to be clearly noted on the worksheet.”

If a student has substitutions they will also need the dean’s signature, which their adviser will be able to help obtain.

Students hoping to apply transfer credits to their degree must make sure LBCC has an official transcript of those classes.

Drury says that sometimes transfer classes are not accepted, so her advice is “the sooner you get those evaluated, the better off you are.”

It should also be noted that students can only apply 66 transfer credits to their LBCC degree.

Deadlines have changed this year. Hill says this gives them more time to inform students if they are missing any classes, so they can schedule to take them during their final term.

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