Student Resources

The Office of the Associate Dean provides a variety of services to undergraduate students, including:

• Collecting and processing appeals for the Weissman Committee on Academic Standing and the Pathways Appeal Committee
• Collecting and processing credit overload and pass/fail applications for Weissman students
• Approving independent study proposals
• Reviewing liberal arts ad hoc major proposals

See the Weissman Forms and Applications page for detailed information and instructions.

Contact Us

Our office (VC, Room 8-265) is open Monday through Friday from 9:00 AM – 5:00 PM. Not all staff members are physically in the office on any given day. As such, the best way to communicate with staff members is via email.

Please use your Baruch student email and include your CUNY emplid in your messages.

• General Inquiries: WSAS.AssocDean@Baruch.cuny.edu; 646-312-3890
• Weissman Major Declaration Unit: WSAS.MajorForms@baruch.cuny.edu
• Weissman Committee on Academic Standing: WSAS.CASAppeals@baruch.cuny.edu
• Pathways Appeal Committee: Pathways.Credit.Appeal@baruch.cuny.edu

Summer/Fall 2026 Schedule & Registration News

NEW MAJORS FOR FALL 2026

The Department of Natural Sciences is launching two exciting new majors

Environmental Studies (BA) and Environmental Science (BS)

Across both majors, the curriculum emphasizes critical thinking, data analysis, and effective communication, skills that are necessary to work with policy makers, stakeholders, and scientists in making informed decisions and implementing solutions to environmental issues. See linked pages for program descriptions and Fall 2026 course offerings.

Interested students should contact the Department of Natural Sciences at 646 660-6250 or learn more at https://blogs.baruch.cuny.edu/naturalsciences/

Update to Baruch’s Pathways Flexible Core

JRN 2500 The Individual and the News in the Information Age

Effective Spring 2027, JRN 2500 will officially join the Pathways Flexible Core as an INDIVIDUAL and SOCIETY course. Students enrolled for Fall 2026 who wish to use JRN 2500 within the Pathways Flexible Core should email their requests to pathways.credit.appeal@baruch.cuny.edu from their Baruch student addresses. Please include your CUNY emplid so your DegreeWorks audit can be updated.

Need courses for your Interdisciplinary College Option/Liberal Arts Minor?

See the linked program descriptions on the Weissman Undergraduate Majors and Minors page for Summer and Fall 2026 courses offerings in our Interdisciplinary minors.

Registration Permission Requests

Arts and Sciences courses:

Students who need registration permission for Weissman courses must contact the relevant academic departments; please check the department sites for contact information.

Business courses for Weissman majors:

Students in the following Weissman majors take business courses as part of their programs: Actuarial Science; Business Communications – Corporate Communication, Graphic Communication, and Business Writing specializations; Computer Science; Financial Mathematics; Music – Management of Musical Enterprises specialization; Economics-BA; and Statistics-BA.

A student who has been officially accepted into their Weissman major should not require registration permission for the relevant business courses.

Notes for Business Course Requests:

If you have not yet completed the official major declaration process, you may request permission to enroll in the upper-level business courses by clicking the course request link below. You must be eligible for official acceptance into the major to receive registration permission.

To gain admission to a major requiring upper-level (3000-level and above) business courses, you must have completed at least 45 credits, must have an overall Baruch GPA of 2.0 or higher, and must have satisfied your Pathways general education and your major’s mathematics requirements.

NOTE: Students pursuing the BA in Economics or the BA in Statistics must successfully complete all economics, mathematics, and statistics program prerequisites to gain acceptance into their major programs.

• The Associate Dean’s Office does not waive course prerequisites.
• The Associate Dean’s Office does not enter permission for closed sections.  If the business class/section you want is full, you may use the Zicklin waitlist feature.
• The Associate Dean’s Office does not enter registration permission for optional business minor courses.

CLICK HERE for the business course request form