Academic advisors work collaboratively with students to help them achieve their academic, professional, and personal goals. To ensure that NKU students are on track to accomplish their goals, students meet at least once every semester with their advisor.
Mike Ruwe is the advisor for students pursuing the ENG major, all ENG department minors (including Cinema Studies), and all ENG department focus areas.
Email: ruwem@nku.edu
Phone: (859) 572-1394
Office: Landrum 505
The Advising Workbooks assist students in monitoring their progress to graduation.
Advising Workbook: 2023-2024 Catalog Year & Earlier
Advising Workbook: 2024-2025 Catalog Year & Later
Note: Your catalog year is the academic calendar year that you started at NKU. You can find your catalog year (academic calendar year) in the "Degree Requirement Catalog" section of your MyNKU account, under the "My Records" tab.
A four-year degree plan can help students complete their degrees on time.
The below tracks pertain to catalog years 2024-2025 and later. For catalog years 2023-2024 and earlier, consult with the advisor.
Creative Writing Track: Four Year Plan
Education Track: Four Year Plan
Literary & Cultural Studies Track: Four Year Plan
Open Focus Track: Four Year Plan
Public & Professional Writing Track: Four Year Plan
Check out the registrar's table of registration windows and registration window calculator. It's based on how many credit hours you have!
Through myNKU.
Consult these handy guides:
Advising Workbook for Fall 2017 Academic Calendar Year and Later
Advising Workbook for Spring 2017 Academic Calendar Year and Earlier
Or check the University Catalog.
Right. All NKU students are required to meet with their advisor before they register for classes. If you haven't done this yet, go ahead and place the classes you're interested in taking into your registration cart and e-mail your advisor to make an appointment.
If you have a hold that isn't an advising hold, go to this page to see who to contact about the hold.
As an English major, your advisor is Mike Ruwe (ruwem@nku.edu | 859-572-1394).
Contact Mike Ruwe, our English major advisor.
Have a general question that you don't think you need a whole advising appointment for? Just give the main office a call at (859) 572-5416.
No big deal. For classes, you can add and drop them with no penalty for the first week of school. After that, there's a schedule that determines how much you'll have to pay for the class, if it will appear on your transcript, and what grade you will receive. You can see that schedule here.
If you want to change majors, you can do that through myNKU. However, you'll need to meet with an advisor from your original department and from the department you'd like to switch into before your request to change majors will be approved.
Great! Have you also:
If so, you're ready to graduate.
Yeah! Check out your degree audit in myNKU. That will check for all the basic requirements, as well as your major and minor requirements. The only thing it can't do is automatically grab substitution courses, like transfers from other institutions or Independent Study courses that you're counting a certain way. Your advisor or department chair can help you double check for issues like that.
You must apply for graduation through MyNKU. Then fill out a certification form, schedule a meeting with the department chair, and bring the completed form. Generally, this process must be completed the semester before you plan to graduate. You can find more information, including deadlines and procedures, on the Registrar's webpage.
Our department chair is John Alberti, who you can contact by phone at 859-572-5619, or by email at alberti@nku.edu.
Bye! We'll miss you!
Unless, of course, you'd like a graduate degree...
