Administrative Experience
Question 2.1 Details

What personal information can you view online-your contact information, grades, degree progress, financial status, or other information?

The basic question to ask is, What information about you that the campus collects can you review online? During the admissions process, after you first enroll, and after you graduate, an institution will maintain basic biographical and academic information about you that is necessary to maintain the official academic and administrative records of your "career" at the institution.

This information may include permanent address and phone number; local/campus address and phone number; parent and emergency contact information; official course grades; grade point average (GPA); academic school/college; degree program (major[s] and minor[s]); progress toward degree; financial records (account balances for tuition, room, board, and other campus charges, and financial aid history); athletic participation; extracurricular activities; and so on.

Some, but probably not all, of these records may be available for you to review online. How you access these records will vary widely among different institutions. You might be able to access the information in specific administrative offices during regular office hours, at special terminals around campus, or via the campus network on or off campus. Find out what you can access and how you can access it.

Be sure to review the important related questions in this section on updating your personal information (2.2, 2.3) and on security and privacy (2.6, 2.7, and 2.8).