• Please know that the SIUE community is here to support you and we will do our best to make sure you have at least one face-to-face or hybrid course in your class schedule (even if it is worth 1 credit hour). 

• Know that schedules will continue to be converted over the next two weeks. Any time there is a change in a course, you will be notified by the Registrar’s office. An example of the email you’ll receive from that office is found here. Please check your schedule next week to make sure that at least one or more of your courses haven’t been converted to an online delivery.

• Double-check your schedule to make sure you understand the format of each of your courses. Per the registrar, if the building and room location is listed as “OL” this indicates that the class will occur online, even if days and times are listed. Some online courses will be synchronous, meaning the class will meet in real time; some may be asynchronous meaning class will not meet in real time.  

• After this conversion, if you notice your entire schedule is online before we reach out to you, begin to work with your academic advisor to try to enroll in a face-to-face or hybrid course.

• Try to be patient as we systematically check all international students’ enrollment. We will be checking the enrollment of students who have already completed our Fall 2020 survey first, so make sure you have completed that survey for ISSS. When we get to your course schedule, and if we see that you are still enrolled in only online classes, we will work with you and your department to try to get you into a course that meets the requirements. We will then issue you a new I-20.

• Online enrollment from home country: International students are able to enroll in online coursework through SIUE from their home countries. However, whether they can remain active in SEVIS if they cannot return to the U.S. for the fall semester has not been determined.