What is my "gateway" University?
What classes should I take?
How do I enroll for classes at my home university?
How do I enroll for classes at one of the other consortium universities?
Are there any scholarships available for NEOMFA students?
What should I do to get a parking pass for the classes I'm taking?
Where is my class and where can I park on the other campuses?
I had all the right tags and I got a ticket anyway! What should I do?
What is the NEOMFA student email list? How do I sign up for the list?
What do I
have to do for my thesis?
Where can I find information how to publish my work?
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page, and Faculty page for more useful information.
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addressed here, please
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answers you need and post them.
What is my "gateway"
University?
Your gateway university is where you enrolled
and were accepted into the program. It is your "home" university,
either
CSU,
KSU,
UAkron, or
YSU.
What classes should I
take?
Talk to the campus coordinator or your
graduate advisor at your home University for advice on your personal program
choices. Be sure you know what required courses you still need to fill, and what the
current course offerings are.
We strongly suggest that you
first get all your workshop classes and craft & theory classes out of the way
first as these have limited offerings and limited enrollments. Literature
and other electives will be easy to fit in later, as there are more sections of
these, so save them for your last year. Thesis hours should be done in your
last two semesters.
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How do I enroll for
classes at my home university?
Each University has a representative to the
consortium or an English department graduate advisor who can give you advice on
particular procedures for enrollment usually online. After consulting with
your MFA advisor, and consulting the current list of
courses
for the MFA program, go online at your home university to enroll in the classes.
Follow these links for online registration for your university:
-
CSU (login to Campusnet)
-
KSU
(through office of the Registrar)
-
UAkron (login to
Zipline)
-
YSU
(through online class schedule)
If you get a message saying that enrollment in
a particular course is "controlled" (limited to students in the MFA program, or
to those who have taken a prerequisite course) you may have to be enrolled
manually by English department staff--see the front desk at your home English
department for help.
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How do I enroll for
classes at one of the other consortium universities?
There are several steps to cross-registration:
- First decide what classes you want (see
the
current list of courses for the MFA program).
- Contact the professor for that course (see
faculty page for contact info) to let them know you are signing up
for their course (cross-registered students will not show up on their
rosters.
- Get a Cross Registration Form from
your
home department (see
sample form from UAkron here).
Or use our generic form (be sure to check appropriate
boxes for the correct schools!)
- Fill it out, sign it, and give it to
your own academic advisor who will send it on for the other appropriate
signatures at your home university and then at the host university (where
the class will be taught).
- Once the form has been returned to your
home department by the host university, your own department will add the
course to your schedule. It may show up as a particular (but different
from our website) course number assigned by your university or as an "independent reading"
with a tag denoting the course title.
- Keep checking your own online schedule.
If the course does not show up on your schedule after a few weeks check with
your department graduate advisor or MFA representative (do give it time, the
form must go from your department to your graduate school, to the host
university and back to your department).
(Note: It is important that the procedure
follows this particular order. The form must to first be signed by the
student's home department Advisor, Department Chair, and Graduate Dean.
The signatures attest to the fact that the student is in good academic standing
and has permission to take the course. Then the host university gets it.
Only then is permission secured at the host institution. But if you
haven't contacted the department at the host university there may not be space in
the course for you! Once the host university signs off on it, the grad
school at the host institution faxes it back to the home institution, who
manually signs the student up for the course. The home and host English
departments will send the forms back and forth, the student should not be the
one attempting to collect the signatures!)
REMEMBER:
Your departments procedures may be lightly different from other gateway school
departments; consult your gateway departments Graduate Advisor and Campus
Coordinator for accurate procedures!
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Are there any scholarships available?
Check the
Opportunities pages for
information on scholarships, awards, and grant monies available.
If you receive an award or prize, let us know and we will add
your name to our brag list!
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What should I do to get a
parking pass for the classes I'm taking?
First get a parking pass from your
home (gateway!) university. You can do this online by visiting
the Parking services for your University here:
CSU
KSU
UAkron
YSU*
Once you have the basic parking tag to hang
from your mirror, ask at your parking services office for a "YACK" sticker
(a small silver piece of tape that is printed with the names of all four
schools). Simply having that on you home school parking tag gives you
the right to park at any of the four schools in the appropriate student
lots.
*Note:
If you are taking classes at YSU there is an additional step.
You need to visit the YSU parking office and request a card for the
dashboard of your car. They will also give you an access card to
swipe to open the parking gates at their gated lots.
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Where is my class and
where can I park on the
other campuses?
If you are taking classes at a University you don't know, it is a good idea
to visit the campus BEFORE your class starts. That way you can find the
nearest parking lot to the building you will be in, and be able to judge
your driving distances. Be sure to look at maps of the Campus and of
the route you will take ahead of time.
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I had all
the right tags and I got a ticket anyway! What should I do?
Are you sure you parked in an
appropriate lot? Recheck the maps! If you were parked in a valid
location and your tags were in order, don't panic. Mistakes do happen.
Go visit the Parking Services office at the University that gave you the
ticket. Show them your YACK sticker and parking pass and they will
give you the appropriate forms to fill out to get the ticket rescinded.
Some students have had success in simply mailing the ticket back with a
Xerox of the parking pass and a letter of explanation. You can also
phone the appropriate Parking Service Office to ask what course of action
you should take. Here are the numbers for all four Parking Services
offices:
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CSU: 216-678-2023
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KSU: 330-672-4432
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UA:
330-972-7213
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YSU: 330-941-3546
Be sure to identify yourself as a NEOMFA student, and mention that you have
both a valid parking pass from your home school as well as a YACK sticker!
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What is the NEOMFA
student email list? How do I sign up for the list?
There is a email list for all NEOMFA students.
It is a good way to share info about events, classes, and even parties.
You must sign up for the list; you will never be automatically placed on the
list. To sign up, follow the directions here:
http://lists.ysu.edu/mailman/listinfo.cgi/neomfa-students or contact
Dr. Mary Biddinger at UAkron and request that
she add you to the list.
Some things you should know:
When you send an email to this list you will be
able to speak to any NEOMFA student at any of the four universities, but only if
they, too, have signed up for the list. Encourage the other
students you meet in the program to sign up and keep in touch.
Be aware this is a public forum--your emails
will go to every student and some faculty in the NEOMFA program. Abusive
language or behavior on a University list will not be tolerated.
If you want to read past posts to the list
check out the
Archives.
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What do I have to do for my thesis?
The guidelines for
NEOMFA theses can be found here: http://www.ysu.edu/neomfa/Thesis.pdf. Before
beginning work on your thesis or signing up for thesis hours,
please discuss your plans with your campus coordinator.
Ask your Campus Coordinator for the appropriate Thesis Committee
and Defense forms.
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Where
can I find information on how to publish my work?
Check out the NEOMFA
useful links page. And if you find what you
need elsewhere, please send us the link
to add into the list here!
And don't forget to submit
your work to our own four campus literary journals:
Whiskey Island,
Luna Negra,
The Akros Review, and
Penguin Review!
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