Unit updates: Office of Classroom Management

• Fall 2022 classroom assignments are being finalized, with about 30 classes that still need rooms. Making room for the final few classes is a strategic version of Jenga that takes much patience and time.
• Spring 2023 class scheduling is underway across all departments and we will be closing Collaborative Class Scheduling (CCS) to centrally schedule classrooms for Spring in the beginning of July.
• The final exam schedule for Fall 2022 and Spring 2023 has been posted, as has the CCS production calendar for Academic Year 2023-24.
• New forms are being created! The Astra Access Request Form (ARF) was migrated to a TeamDynamix (TDX) form and the team is working with ASR-IT on a new Final Exam Request Form using Jadu.
• Fraser classrooms went offline at the beginning of summer term. These rooms will remain offline until the Chemistry Undergraduate Teaching Laboratories project is funded.Summer classroom technology lifecycle renewals are in full swing. Many rooms this year will be upgraded with improved cameras and microphones to better facilitate learning. Visit our project page for more detail and updates.

Unit updates: Office of Student Finance

•  Financial Aid disbursement for summer 2022 begins Monday, June 6 for all non-MED careers (the MED career is disbursed earlier).
• On Thursday, May 18, 2022, the Department of Education issued guidance once again suspending all FAFSA Verifications and requirements for the 2022-2023 academic year. Twin Cities OSF, FA-IT, and ASRUX staff worked all week to waive checklists, add PeopleSoft comments, and send communications to students for all campuses. Approximately 4,000 checklist items were waived for 1,500 students, creating a large bump in estimated financial aid packages. On average at this time there are less than 20 students packaged per day, but there were 422 in one day after waiving the checklist items! Thank you TEAM!!
• Satisfactory Academic Progress ran on May 22 for the summer.
• 2022-23 financial aid packaging timeline (dates are approximate):
• J​une 15:​ ​Last run of estimated packaging​ and FANs
• ​June 22: ​Canceling estimated​ aid​ packages​
• July 5: Budgets in production
• July 6-7 Packaging simulation/retrieves
• July 11: Actual packaging
• July 18: FANs are sent via email

CARES and student emergency funds update

The final round of the $12.9 million in CARES Act funds were disbursed to students this fall. Emergency CARES funds are no longer available. In addition, ASR worked with the Asian Pacific American Resource Center (APARC) to disburse $106,690 of Asian American and Native American Pacific Islander-Serving Institutions (AANAPISI) CARES funds to 113 students. Student emergency funds and other resources are available, and potential cases should be referred to One Stop, or to Richard Campo (campo035@umn.edu), with any questions.