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How to Approve a CPT Request

An e-mail from internationalstudents@stanford.edu is sent to the academic advisor asking you to login to Bechtel Connect to provide for a CPT request.

Email sample from Bechtel

Academic advisors may EITHER (1) follow the links and direction in the supplied e-mail to review the specific recommendation OR (2) directly log into Bechtel Connect to review all their pending approval requests and review/respond to them there.

Options to log in

Option 1

1. Follow the links and direction in the e-mail to review the specific recommendation.

Sample of link for log in

2. Then, supply the recommendation ID and last name from email in the screen below.

Screen to enter recommendation ID

3. Respond and submit answers to the relevant questions displayed and click “Send”.

Screen for CPT recommendation details

Option 2

1. Directly log into Bechtel Connect to review all your pending approval requests.

Option to log into Bechtel

2. Log in with your SUNet ID and password.
Bechtel login page

SUNet login page

3. Select the“Home” icon and then select “Recommender”.

Select Recommender

4. Select the correct pending approval request.

Select correct request

5. Respond and submit answers to the relevant questions displayed and click “Send”.

Screen for CPT recommendation details