April 2016
Dear MBA Students:
Greetings to all, current and new students!
Enclosed is the Summer/Fall Registration Guide, which you need to read very closely. It has missioncritical dates in it, as well as directions on how to find financial and other information that you will need.
Online registration for summer AND fall courses will begin on Monday, April 25, 2016 at 9:00 am.
Online registration for summer will close on May 16, 2016 at 5:00 pm. Online registration for fall
courses will close on Friday, August 12, 2016 at 5:00 pm.
The registration is online, in your MyMarist account, Student tab, Self Service Banner, Registration.
And of course, in order to register you need to have your payment arrangements made. Please note that
with respect to your Fall courses, you register for 15-week, Round 1, AND/OR Round 2 courses all at
once.
If you are expecting financial aid for a summer course, or have any questions about financial aid for any
summer or fall course for which you will register, please make sure you communicate with Tenisha Lane,
Tenisha.Lane@marist.edu, in Student Financial Services, before you register.
You can find the courses that we will be offering in the summer and in the fall at
http://www.marist.edu/admission/graduate/businessadministration/mba-course-registration.html and also
at the iLearn MBA tab under resources. If you have questions about what courses you should take,
please consult your MBA advisor, Professor John Finnigan, at John.Finnigan@marist.edu. You need to
use your Foxmail account so that he can be sure that you are in fact an active Marist MBA student.
Those of you – primarily students admitted in Spring 2016 – who are transitioning from the program you
were admitted under to the new program will need to get your advising on that done and your “Request to
Transition” (simply an email from your foxmail account to GRADMGT@marist.edu stating your request
to transition to the new program by changing your catalog year to 2015-16) in to us so we can file it
with the Registrar so that your degree audit will change. Please consult with your advisor Professor John
Finnigan (John.Finnigan@marist.edu) and the Program Director, Dr. Caroline Rider
(Caroline.Rider@marist.edu) to determine your best option.
Those of you who are continuing in the program you were admitted under – primarily students admitted
before Spring 2016 plus some students admitted in Spring 2016 with three or all four foundations waived
– need to take MBA 602 and MBA 604 this fall if you have not yet taken them. They may not be offered
after the fall semester. If you will have prerequisite trouble, please contact Professor Finnigan
immediately.
If you are a new student, starting in Fall 2016, you will register for MBA 660 and EITHER MBA 663 or
MBA 664. If you are going to concentrate in Finance, take 664.
Please take the time now to work with your employer and/or your family to make sure that even if you
must travel for work, or take time off to travel to a wedding or funeral, that you continue to have access to
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your courses. Sometimes you may be able to make special arrangements with your instructor, if you do so
enough in advance. BUT NOTE that MBA 660 (Professor Ken Sloan) uses teams to do a simulation, and
if team members are AWOL for parts of the course, there are a number of adverse consequences, so
please plan extra carefully around the team exercise in this course.
If you are a new student, you should have received from our Help Desk a hard copy of your log-in ID and
temporary password. Please log in to iLearn orientation and start familiarizing yourself with your
“classroom” and how it works!
Enclosed are your Registration Information Guide and associated documents, which we offer to you as
support for your registration process. The Registration Information Guide will outline important dates. In
addition, you can find more information about the program generally in the Graduate Catalog on the
Marist website. However, the Graduate Catalog has not yet been updated concerning the new program, so
your best source of information about the new program is currently
http://www.marist.edu/admission/graduate/businessadministration/curriculum.html
Please study these materials carefully and then, if you have questions which Professor Finnigan cannot
answer, please email us from your Foxmail account, at GRADMGT@marist.edu.
We look forward to working with you!
Sincerely,
Caroline V. Rider, J.D.
MBA Director and Associate Professor of Management
Marist College
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