Students wishing to make changes in their class schedule may obtain information about the drop/add procedure and Add/Drop/Change forms from the Registrar’s Office. Declared students wishing to drop or add a class(es) are required to have their advisor sign their Add/Drop/Change forms.
Cancellation of Registration
Students whose registrations are canceled as the result of disciplinary action forfeit all rights to a refund of tuition and fees. The college reserves the right to cancel a student’s registration if the student is substantially delinquent in debt repayment or has failed to arrange for payment.
Adding Semester-Length Courses
Students may add semester-length courses to their schedule until the last day for late registration (last day to add courses) as published in the academic calendar. Adding courses requires student and advisor signatures. Requests must be submitted by the last day for late registration. With the signed approval of the instructor teaching the course and their faculty advisor, students may add a course after the last day of registration (last day to add courses) as listed in the academic calendar.
Dropping Semester-Length Courses
Students may drop courses without penalty until the last day for student-initiated drops as published in the academic calendar (third Friday after the first day of instruction). Dropped courses do not appear on academic records. Dropping courses requires student and advisor signatures (declared students only). Students are not responsible for the tuition and fees.
Deadlines are adjusted proportionally for courses that are less than a semester in length. Students must submit Add/Drop/Change forms to the Registrar’s Office by the appropriate deadlines: students may drop without penalty in the first 15% of the term of the course (students are not responsible for the tuition and fees); students may withdraw in the first 60% of the term of the course (students are responsible for the tuition and fees).
Please contact the Registrar’s Office about drop/withdraw deadlines for short term courses. It is the student’s responsibility to know these deadlines and to submit paperwork at the appropriate time.
Withdrawing from Courses
Students who wish to withdraw from one or more courses after the drop deadline may request a student-initiated withdrawal from the Registrar’s Office. After the student- initiated withdrawal deadline (eighth Friday after the first day of instruction), students should contact their instructor(s) and request an instructor-initiated withdrawal or contact the Registrar’s Office with the request. It is recommended that program-active students meet with their advisors prior to withdrawing from courses. Students are responsible for the tuition and fees.
Courses from which students withdraw will appear on their academic record as “W” grades but will not affect their GPA. This process requires both student and advisor signatures.
If a financial aid recipient drops some of his/her classes during the drop/add period or indicates having never attended some of his/her classes, the recipient may lose some or all of his/her financial aid eligibility. It is highly recommended that the recipient discuss the situation with the financial aid officer before withdrawing from or dropping any courses.
In accordance with federal and state regulations, the financial aid office must also monitor student academic progress and does so each semester. Withdrawal from any class may cause the student to be in a position of unsatisfactory academic progress for financial aid purposes. Students not meeting these standards of academic progress may lose financial aid eligibility for future semesters.
Faculty-Initiated Withdrawal
If students do not meet the prerequisites for a course in which they have enrolled, or if students have not participated substantially in the course, the faculty member teaching that course may, at his/her discretion, withdraw the student from the class by the last day for faculty-initiated withdrawals as published in the academic calendar (ninth Friday after the first day of instruction). A grade of “W” will appear on the student’s academic record for that course. Faculty initiated withdrawals submitted before the third Friday after the first day of instruction will be treated as a dropped class and will not appear on a transcript of the student’s academic record. Students who have been dropped are not responsible for the tuition and fees. Students who have been withdrawn are responsible for the tuition and fees.
It is the student’s responsibility to drop or withdraw from courses in which they are not participating. Students should not assume that their instructors will withdraw them for failure to attend classes. If the student neglects to take the necessary steps, the student will automatically fail.
Auditing Classes
Audit registrations are on a space-available basis. Auditors may be dropped from a class to make room for credit- seeking students. Students, who audit classes are required to meet prerequisites, register, and pay tuition and fees, but the credits are not included in the computation of study load for full-time/part-time determination or for overload status.
The requirement, acceptance and review of work, and lab privileges are at the discretion of the instructor. A grade of AU (audit) is granted to students who complete an audited course, but no credit is awarded. Audited courses do not apply toward degree requirements, and they will not transfer to other institutions.
When students register, they should indicate on the registration form their desire to audit a course. Students who want to change from audit to credit must request the change before the deadline to add a course (second Friday after the first day of instruction).
Changing from Credit to Audit
The change from credit to audit must be made by the last day for faculty-initiated withdrawals (ninth Friday after the first day of instruction). The changes require approval by the instructor of the course. For degree seeking students, an advisor’s signature is also required.