From vedwards@u.washington.edu Tue Sep 17 14:23:16 1996 Received: from carson-oms1.u.washington.edu by lists.u.washington.edu (5.65+UW96.06/UW-NDC Revision: 2.33 ) id AA36278; Tue, 17 Sep 96 14:23:16 -0700 Received: from carson.u.washington.edu (carson.u.washington.edu [140.142.52.11]) by carson-oms1.u.washington.edu (8.7.5+UW96.09/8.7.3+UW96.09) with SMTP id OAA08643 for ; Tue, 17 Sep 1996 14:23:15 -0700 Date: Tue, 17 Sep 1996 14:23:14 -0700 (PDT) From: Virjean Edwards Reply-To: Virjean Edwards To: Discussion of Residency Issues State Wide Subject: Re: Residency Denial In-Reply-To: Message-Id: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII You did not mention voter's registration at all. Did she maintain that while she was gone? I will assume she did not and with that, I would agree with you. We send our residency brochure (not the application) to departments upon request and we have an information session for each orientation in order to circulate the correct information, but we certainly do not feel it is our responsibility to "recruit" students for residency. We do request that departments and other offices not give out residency information as we prefer they direct them to us. That has helped to curtail the amount of incorrect information going out to the students. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Virjean H. Edwards University of Washington Assistant Registrar Office of the Registrar Residency Officer 264 Schmitz Hall, Box 355850 (206)543-3290 Seattle WA 98195-5850 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ On Tue, 17 Sep 1996, Andrea Coker-Anderson wrote: > I am taking a lot of heat for a recent residency denial. The student has > papered the administration with letters about my decision. The AG is > involved as well, but with school starting soon, the suggestion was made > that I send you all the scenario to see if you have any suggestions or if > you would have done anything differently. Here it goes... > > >From 1989 to 1993 this student resided in Washington and was a > student at > Evergreen paying resident tuition. She left the state for Wisconsin as > of Summer 1993, changing her driver's license to Wisconsin as of July 23, > 1993. She stored her car and goods with family in Bremerton while in > Wisconsin. > > She returned to Washington as of August, 1995 and began full-time student > status as of September 25, 1995. She did not change her driver's license > back to Washington until February 10, 1996. The late change of driver's > license is my basis for denial. She claims that she was never told what > to do and that it's our institutional error. Was I right to deny her > on this basis? As well, what do all of you do with regards to "advising" > students how to become residents. I feel very uncCmfortable with this > term. It's my opinion that if students are here to make Washington their > home they will change the documentation that is required once they > arrive. It is not my place to assume that every non-resident student is > here to establish a domicile. Certainly, I'm available to answer all > questions and have an information sheet available. Is there more that > others do in this regard. I appreciate your help and suggestions... > > Andrea Coker-Anderson - The Evergreen State College > > > .