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Important Notice from Office of Admissions, 10/7/2011
One state law and an SFA process will affect new and re-entry graduate students
State of Texas SB 1107
Beginning with the spring 2012 semester, any new student (undergraduate or graduate) to a public or private college/university will be required to provide evidence of bacterial meningitis vaccination prior to enrollment (SB 1107). This means that all new students must provide this documentation prior to registering for classes. If a currently enrolled student does not enroll for a fall or spring semester, they will be required to provide this documentation when they re-apply for admission.
A student is not required to submit evidence of receiving the vaccination against bacterial meningitis or evidence of receiving a booster dose if the student is 30 years of age or older by the first class day of the semester in which they intend to enroll OR if the student is enrolled in on-line or other distance education courses only.
Students will have a registration hold until (1) they provide the documentation OR (2) they self identify to the graduate admission office that they plan to enroll in on-line courses only. These students will need to be monitored each semester and if they ever plan to enroll in a “face to face” course, they will need to provide the documentation.
Please note: Students who are admitted close to the first class day will not be permitted to register until they comply with SB 1107. Historically, if your particular program has students who “wait until the last minute” to apply to graduate school, they will be at a disadvantage.
SFA change in procedure
In order to comply with SB 1107, the graduate admission office must close the matriculation of all graduate applicants who are admitted but never enrolled. The procedure of leaving a graduate admission file open will stop beginning with the fall 2011 semester. All graduate students who sit out a fall or spring semester will be required to re-apply for admission. This is the only way to systematically monitor compliance with SB 1107.
I plan to send an “all graduate student” and “all faculty” email announcing this change. Please help us communicate this change to students who may be contemplating sitting out a fall or spring semester. This does not affect students who continuously enroll.
If an undergraduate student receives their degree from SFA and enrolls in graduate classes the next semester, SB 1107 does not apply.