1. Cross Registration: How Well Does It Really Work A Presentation by Lawrence G. Dotolo, Ph.D. President Virginia Tidewater Consortium for Higher Education and Executive Director Association for Consortium Leadership

2. The National and International Organization for Consortium Leadership

3. What Will Be Discussed? Why Consortia Instituted Cross Registration? What Are Typical Cross-registration Guidelines? Is It Widely Used? Have New Registration Systems Enhanced Cross Registration? What Problems Have Occurred with Cross Registration? Other Concerns

4. Why Consortia Instituted Cross Registration? To Offer More Options for Students To Share Unique Resources To Promote Inter-institutional Cooperation To Reduce the Cost of Academic Programs Others

5. Must Have Approval of Home Institution Student Must Be in Good Standing Tuition Will Be Paid to Home Institution Student Must Abide by the Rules and Regulations of the Host Institution There is a Limit to the Number of Credits That Can Be Taken Typical Cross- Registration Guidelines

6. Is It Widely Used? Most Academic Consortia in the United States Have Cross Registration The Number of Students Using Cross Registration Varies with the Consortium, but It Is Substantial

7. Have New Registration Systems Enhanced Cross Registration? If Colleges are Using the Same Software, Cross Registration is Enhanced If They are Not Using Similar System, Manual Override Is Required (if Possible) and Efficiencies May be Less i.e. Banner and PeopleSoft

8. What Problems Have Occurred with Cross Registration? Slow Grade Processing Transcript Generation at Host Institution Change in College Personnel Result in Little Knowledge of the Process Student Violation of Host Rules Jurisdictional Problems with Disruptive Students

9. What Problems Have Occurred with Cross-Registration? (cont) On-Line Registration On-Line Courses Others

10. Other Issues or Concerns?

11. How To Contact Us Association for Consortium Leadership 4900 Powhatan Avenue Norfolk, Virginia 23529 Lawrence G. Dotolo, Ph.D. Executive Director lgdotolo@aol.com Nicola Beltz, Director of Programs and Administration nicolabelt@aol.com Phone: 757-683-3183 Fax: 757-683-4515 www.acl.odu.edu