Dear Colleagues,
This email contains important Spring 2024 enrollment deadline information. Please refer to the Current Student Enrollment Calendar for all enrollment deadlines, including those that generate late enrollment fees.
Late Drop/Add Deadline
The Spring 2024 undergraduate student deadline to late add, late drop, swap, and change class units via Enrollment Center is Wednesday, February 7 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. Late 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, February 7 deadline. On Thursday, February 8 and Friday, February 9, 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, the deadline for Instructor Drops is Friday, February 2, 2024. The Academic Senate permits the following criteria for instructor drops:
- 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.
- 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 or other extenuating circumstance; 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 add consent for 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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