Effective with the Fall term of 1999, (1) at the beginning of each academic term, all students shall have eight class days in which to drop courses and ten class days in which to add courses, except in the case of academic terms of fewer than ten weeks, during which the drop and add periods shall be shortened proportionately, with any fractions of days being rounded to the nearest full number, and (2) no deadline shall apply to students' ability to add for-credit internships during a term.
EXPLANATION
Current rules permit students six days to drop courses and eight days
to add courses. This measure extends those periods by two days each. Students
continually approach the ASUO Senate and Executive expressing dissatisfaction
with the current periods, explaining that they are not adequate to determine
the pace of a course. This is particularly true in courses that meet one
or two times per week.
FISCAL IMPACT
The fiscal impact of this measure is subject to potentially substantial
change from year to year, based among other things on (a) overall enrollment,
(b) whether, in a given term, more students drop than add or vice versa,
(c) whether the net adds or drops are of upper- or lower-division courses,
and (d) whether the adds and drops counterbalance each other within a given
school or department. Preliminary data this year indicate that more students
are adding than dropping; however, last year the reverse was true, and
there can be no assurance what direction these or other numbers will take
in the future.
The fiscal impact of this measure might also be affected by the date
during each term at which the census establishing the level of FTE students
is to be taken in accordance with OUS requirements. It is presently uncertain
whether this date will change under the new OUS funding model.
This measure differs from a similar measure proposed last year in that,
among other things, the add and drop periods proposed last year were substantially
longer --