What it's for
Filling a gap: a language, a niche elective, or a required course that isn't running at Porter when you need it. It is not for shopping for an easier section of something Porter does offer.
The logistics
You pay Porter tuition for the credits, register through the process rather than at the host, and follow the host campus's calendar and policies while enrolled there. Confirm in advance exactly how the course maps to a Porter requirement so it isn't a surprise at graduation.
In and around Porter Falls
Curriculum decisions at Porter run through the departments that meet in Founders Hall and the Applied Arts Building, then to Faculty Senate, then to the Provost in Millwright Hall. The pace is deliberately slow and the review calendar is published.
The practical details
Who: Enrolled Porter students in good standing, for a course not offered at Porter that term or with an unresolvable time conflict. How: A cross-registration form approved by your Porter advisor and the host campus, filed by the host's deadline. Credit: Comes back as resident credit, not transfer credit — it counts in your GPA and toward residency. Anything time-sensitive — an accommodation, a booking, a deadline — is worth confirming directly before you rely on it, because the specifics here can change from term to term.
If you have a question
The office behind this is Office of the Provost (Millwright Hall, Room 300). Call (715) 555–0130 or email provost@uwporterfalls.edu during the fall and spring terms, or sign in to MyPorter to send a message or book a time. If it turns out another office owns the question, they will route it rather than send you back to the start.
Fictional information
UW–Porter Falls is a work of parody. Every office, person, building, phone number and statistic on this page is invented; nothing here describes a real institution or a service you can actually contact.