Just fewer than 3,000 University students who have yet to verify their health insurance information with Student Health will be blocked from registering for spring classes today.
In a mass e-mail sent to those who had yet to verify their insurance information last night, students were warned they will be ineligible to register for classes as of today until they verify their information.
Since the 1960s, the University has required all students to have health insurance, but only since this fall have students been required to verify their information with Student Health administrators to ensure compliance with the requirement.
"Now that we have the capability through computers and through an online system, we can be sure that students have health care," said Virginia Carter, director of external relations for the office of student affairs. "The reason that we want them to have health care is so they're protected in the event they get sick."
Once a student verifies their insurance information at the Student Health Web site, their registration will automatically be reinstated by the end of the business day if they go online before 2 p.m., the e-mail sent to students said.
Registration for spring semester classes is slated to begin around the middle of November.
Yesterday's e-mail was the third of three mass e-mails sent to remind students about the verification procedure since the start of school, Carter said. Last spring, a letter from Lampkin was included in tuition bills to inform parents of the new process.
Carter suggested that so many students may have yet to verify their information because doing so requires information from insurance cards, something most students typically do not carry in their wallets.
"It's possible that they don't have the information at their fingertips," she said. "We know that a lot of students did verify in the past few days. They may have gone home for fall break to get the information they needed.The other reason might be they haven't read the e-mails."
According to Carter, other than revoking registration privileges, there are no other penalties for failing to complete the verification process.
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