DEADLINES*

REQUIREMENTS AND PROCEDURES

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On or before the Add/Drop deadline: end of the second week of semester (end of approximately 10% of the academic term).

·         Student may use the SMART system or submit a Schedule Adjustment Form to the Enrollment Services Information Center.

·         No record of the course appears on student records.

·         No signature approval required.

After the Add/Drop deadline, and on or before the last day of the twelfth week of the semester (end of approximately 80% of instruction).

·         Student must present serious and compelling reasons¹ for dropping the course.

·         Course Instructor and Dean of the College offering the course (or designee) must sign the Schedule Adjustment Form.

·         After obtaining signature approval, student must submit the completed Schedule Adjustment Form to the Enrollment Services Information Center.

·         Given approval, a grade of “W” appears on student records.

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Beyond the last day of the twelfth week of the semester (beyond the end of approximately 80% of instruction), until the deadline for instructor submission of grades.

·         Student must demonstrate that the need to drop the course is due to circumstances beyond the student’s control, as in cases of serious illness, accident, family emergency, etc., and that a grade of “I” (where acceptable to the instructor) is impractical, given these circumstances.

·         Course Instructor and Dean of the College offering the course (or designee) must sign the Schedule Adjustment Form.

·         After obtaining signature approval, student must submit the completed Schedule Adjustment Form to the Enrollment Services Information Center.

·         Given approval, a grade of “W” appears on student records.

Up to one year after the end of the term

·         Student may petition for retroactive dropping of single courses by following the procedures outlined in the preceding section of this chart.

·         Student may petition for retroactive dropping of all courses attempted during the term by submitting a written request to the Dean of Students.

·         In this petition, the student must present serious and compelling reasons for the retroactive drops.

·         *The petition is reviewed by a committee consisting of the Dean of Students (or designee), the Dean of the College of the student’s  major (or designee; Arts and Sciences in the case of undeclared majors), and a faculty member from the Student Affairs Committee (SAC). (When this faculty member is unavailable, a replacement may be appointed on an ad hoc basis by the Dean of the College, from among the College faculty.)

·         Given approval by the review committee, the Dean of Students will sign the petition; grades of “W” will appear on student records for all courses attempted during the term.