Error in college affiliation process now fixed

Jacqueline Perlin
Assistant News Editor
York is changing the way students are affiliated with their colleges.
Under the old regulation, residence students were automatically affiliated with whatever college residence they moved into – if a student lived in Winters College during first year and moved to Vanier residence, their college affiliation would be automatically switched from Winters to Vanier. Even if students submitted a form to maintain their original affiliation, a glitch in the system would prevent the request from being realized.
The university has now fixed that glitch, and students may now successfully choose to remain with their original college after their first year, even if they decide to move residences.
“The bigger issue is after first year, should you still be forced to be affiliated with whatever college you live in or whatever college you choose?” said Founders College Council president Robert Cerjanec. “Under the current system, it almost tells you indirectly that if now you live in Calumet, you should be involved in Calumet. But you don’t have any connection with Calumet. You have a connection [with your original college].”
Vp students Rob Tiffin explained that the student information system would automatically change any college affiliation requests back to the college of residence due to a system pre-programming.
“Even if students could change, or request a change, we discovered it was slipping students back into [the college affiliation of the residence they were living in],” he said.  “We are going to make certain that that doesn’t occur [anymore].”
tudents must go through the registrar’s office to request to change college
affiliation.