Permission to Enroll/Visiting Students

“Permission to Enroll” forms remove the necessity of checking for Prereq/Assessment level

If a visiting student comes in with a “Permission to Enroll” form from another Institution, specifying ANY class (even an English or  Math class), they are automatically cleared to take that class. Either a counselor, or Admissions, should provide the override for the student to take the class.

When WE sign a “Permission to Enroll Elsewhere” form for a student who wants to take a class somewhere else for transfer back here, it is because we have established that the student has the prerequisites/assessment levels to take the same class HERE; just so, someone at that other institution has established that the student has met the prerequisite requirements for THAT place’s version of the course the student wants to take HERE. SO the assessment/prerequisite check has already been done by the time the student shows up here with a “P to E” form. The student, and her home school,  have determined she is qualified for the target class, and we just rubber stamp (or send her to Admissions and THEY will rubberstamp.

A  NOTE IN BANNER  will explain to  a Department Chair the policy that has allowed us to provide the override.

Additional information can be found online here: http://cms.montgomerycollege.edu/edu/department2.aspx?id=20102  

Visiting Students

With the start of summer registration, you may begin to receive questions from students/parents about the visiting/summer student registration process. Please click on the link below for details about the registration process.

http://cms.montgomerycollege.edu/edu/department2.aspx?id=20102

Visiting Students

With the start of summer registration, the department is beginning to receive questions from students/parents about the visiting/summer student registration process. Please click on the link below for details about the registration process.

http://cms.montgomerycollege.edu/edu/department2.aspx?id=20102

Visiting Students Need to Get it in Writing!

Whether visiting from UMCP or any other institution, students attending other schools who want to take classes at MC this summer should get a signed approval from an adviser at their base school prior to taking a course to assure its acceptance toward a degree, either through a Permission to Enroll Form or an e-mailed message from an adviser stating approval of the course(s).

A UM-College Park-Specific Warning: certain courses at Montgomery College appear on the MC General Education List but are not transferable for visiting UMCP students who want to take summer courses at MC. The courses below appear in ARTSYS as transferable, but only if the students are current Montgomery College students. Once students officially enroll at UMCP, they “belong” to UMCP and need to obtain a Permission to Enroll Form signed by a College Park adviser in advance in order to take any Montgomery College course. Some courses (noted below) are not approved for current UMCP students to transfer back to UMCP.

The footnote in the UMCP Transfer Database http://www.sis.umd.edu/bin/tcecourseFrame?institution=52431A for the courses below states that no permission will be granted to take these courses for current UMCP students (Footnote 17)
Language Courses: AR 101 & 102 Elementary Arabic; FR 101, 102, 201 French; RU 101, 102, 201, 202; SN 101, 102, 201;
Arts courses: AR 101, AR 102, AR 103, AR 104, AR 112, AR 124; EN 218 Intro/Creative Writing; PG 150, PG 161
EN Literature courses: EN 122 Mythology, EN 209 The Bible as Literature, and EN 221 The Short Story
Health - HE 100, 101H, 109, 205
IS 273 Integrated Arts
Math MA 130, 131, 282, 284
MG 201 Business Law
SP 108, 112 Speech
PY 221 Abnormal Psychology

The courses above will transfer for future UMCP students but not current UMCP students coming back to MC.

Any visiting UMCP student should have a signed Permission to Enroll (PTE) Form for any course: http://www.bsos.umd.edu/media/23579/pteform.pdfUMCP PTE Information: http://www.tce.umd.edu/pte.html

What about current MC students who have been accepted at UM for Fall 2011? They don’t officially "belong" to UMCP until they start classes there in late August. They may take the courses above or any summer course at MC without a Permission to Enroll Form until they become true Terps – that is, up until the semester that they enroll as full-time UMCP students.
Does MC need to collect Permission to Enroll Forms or e-mailed permission from advisers?
No - but making a note of the existence of permission in Banner is helpful. The permission is for the protection of the student who should be advised to hold on to all written approvals for future use. We are working with a student now whose completion of a course in 2008 is in question by UMCP - students should maintain their own records.
MC Admissions may use a copy of a Permission to Enroll form to give an override to students to register for a class, see details here:MC Admissions Steps for Visiting Students: http://cms.montgomerycollege.edu/edu/department2.aspx?id=20102

Bottom line: students taking a summer or winter course at MC who attend a different school full-time should have something in writing to verify that their home school will accept a course taken at Montgomery College.