Dear Colleagues,
This email contains important fall 2024 enrollment deadline information. Please refer to the Current Student Enrollment Calendar for all enrollment deadlines, including those that generate enrollment fees.
Drop/Add Deadline (with a Fee)
The fall 2024 undergraduate student deadline to add, drop, swap, and change class units is Wednesday, September 18 at 11:59 p.m. PT. This deadline applies to all courses not on the Early Drop Deadline list and comes at the end of the third week of instruction for the semester. Add/Drop fees are listed on the Office of the Registrar website under the “How Do I...Add/Drop A Class” tab.
Please inform students that they must drop themselves from the waitlists of any courses they no longer wish to take, prior to the Wednesday September 18 deadline. On Thursday, September 19 and Friday, September 20, departmental staff can add students from the waitlist to fill seats that other students have dropped. If instructors of record have questions about the process, they may contact their enrollment manager directly. Details on this policy can be found on the Office of the Registrar website.
In addition, instructor drops can be enforced during the first three weeks of instruction. The Academic Senate permits the following criteria for instructor drops:
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Insufficient engagement: In compliance with campus policies on accommodation, instructors should clearly define in the course syllabus the terms by which a student may be dropped due to insufficient engagement. These terms must be limited to clearly defined assignments and/or attendance expectations.
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Published prerequisites: Instructors may elect to drop students for not having completed course prerequisites, provided the prerequisites are published as such under the course’s “Rules and Requirements” of the current Course Catalog in the Berkeley Academic Guide.
Instructors should work with their enrollment managers to process instructor drops should they choose to engage in this practice. I urge instructors to check whether a student's "insufficient engagement" is a consequence of an illness; if that is the case, I hope instructors can accommodate the student so they may remain enrolled (should the student wish) and return to full engagement as soon as possible. In addition, instructors who wish to restrict enrollments into their classes after the Instructor Drop Deadline should work with their enrollment managers to require instructor consent for students to enroll in their classes after this date.
Thank you for all your contributions to the instructional mission of the campus and support of our students.
Sincerely,
Oliver M. O’Reilly
Vice Provost for Undergraduate Education
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