Preventing or removing emergency information registration (EMR) hold in CAESAR

Each year near the beginning of the academic year, new and returning students are asked to review must review their local/current address, emergency contact, and emergency notification phone number - adding, confirming or modifying it as appropriate. If you do not follow the steps to confirm/modify all your information, you risk having an emergency information registration hold placed on your account.

Please be sure to follow the steps described below as this is the only way to prevent/remove the emergency information registration hold.

1. Navigate to https://caesar.ent.northwestern.edu and sign in with your NetID and password.
2. Toggle to Student Homepage in the drop-down menu located in upper left corner
3. Click the Student Agreements tile
4. Click To Do’s in left-hand navigation menu
5. Click into the Emergency Information Collection task
6. Follow and complete the 6 steps
   • Step-by-step instructions with screen shots

**Important Notes:

1. Simply updating the address, emergency contact(s), and emergency notification phone number through the Profile tile, will NOT prevent or remove a registration hold - the student will need to follow the steps above.
2. If you do not see a task in the To Do's section under the Student Agreements tile and you need to update your personal information in CAESAR, please see this article.
3. Access to the Student Agreements tile is for matriculated students only.  Incoming applicants/students will not see the tile until they become a student.