Registration Tools
For Doctoral Consortium Students
· Review the TC schedule for important course information. You will need the five-digit course reference number (CRN) to register, so please make a note of it.
· Complete the IUDC registration form. You will need to obtain all four applicable signatures before the TC Registrar can process your registration.
- First obtain signatures from your home school academic advisor and IUDC Coordinator. A list of IUDC Coordinators appears on the registration form.
- Next obtain a signature from the instructor of your TC course. Instructors’ names are listed on the online course schedule. If you have difficulty reaching an instructor personally, you should try to reach him/her through one of the academic department offices.
- A list of IUDC Coordinators is available on the registration form. You will need a signature from the coordinator at your home school as well as from TC’s coordinator. The IUDC Coordinator for TC is William Baldwin, Ed.D., who serves as Vice Provost. If he is unavailable to sign your form, you can also try to reach Katie Embree, Ed.D., the Associate Vice Provost, or Diana Maul, the Registrar, for one of their signatures. Dr. Baldwin and Dr. Embree both have offices in 113 Zankel Building, while Ms. Maul’s office is in 324 Thorndike.
- Return the completed registration form to both your home school IUDC Coordinator and to the Registrar’s Office at TC (324 Thorndike). Alternatively, you may fax your form to the TC Registrar at (212) 678-3005. Please note that we will return the form to you if it is incomplete.
- Once processed, the TC Registrar will mail you a printout of your schedule. While you will not pay tuition for the course to TC, please be aware that you may be liable for any special course fees. These fees are assessed for some courses to cover the costs of required instructional materials. Special fee amounts are listed on the TC course schedule next to individual sections that require fee payment. If you do have a balance due for special fee charges, please send payment to the Teachers College Office of Student Accounts, 525 W. 120th St. Box 305, New York, NY 10027.
· Access to online course content:
- By registering for a TC course, you will be eligible for full online course access, but you must first retrieve and activate your Columbia University UNI (a University network ID) and e-mail account. Your UNI consists of two or three letters (based on your initials) and a number: E.g., zxq1234. The UNI also forms the first part of your Columbia University e-mail account, as in zxq1234@columbia.edu.
- Two to three business days after you turn in your completed registration form to the TC Registrar, visit this web site to activate your UNI: http://uni.columbia.edu/
- Search for your own name under “Forgot your UNI?” The search should return your UNI.
- Once you have your UNI, click “Activate a new UNI account” and follow the prompts. You will need to enter either your date of birth or social security number to activate your account.
- Activating your UNI will also activate your Columbia University e-mail. You will have use of this e-mail account during any term when you register for a TC course.
- Once you have activated your UNI and set a password, you should be able to access online course content at the following web site: http://my.tc.edu
- If you cannot access online course content after three business days, please e-mail TC’s Registrar at registrar@tc.edu. In your e-mail, be sure to include your UNI, name, and the CRN and name of the TC course for which you registered. We will initiate an inquiry with our Academic Computing Department.
- If you have successfully accessed online course content but need help with navigation, please visit the following web site: http://library.tc.columbia.edu/course_students.php.
- Using your UNI and the password you’ve set, we recommend that you check your Columbia University e-mail account at least once a day or to have your Columbia mail forwarded to an external account that you do check daily. TC instructors use Columbia e-mail to communicate with students, and you can miss out on important course information if you do not retrieve messages from your Columbia account often enough.
· Course grades: Your instructor will report your grade to the Registrar at TC. We will then send an academic transcript to your home institution near the end of each semester as the grades come to us.
